PENN SPILLS THE GOSSIP!

That’s one story he’s happy to tell! Penn Badgley dished about the six seasons he spent on Gossip Girl — and why he passed on playing “Lonely Boy” Dan Humphrey when the part was first offered — during a recent appearance on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast.

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“I’ve said many times, you know, I initially turned the role down,” the actor, 38, shared. “And I didn’t just kind of turn it down. I mean, I said, ‘So grateful you thought of me, wish you well, but no thanks.’” At the time, Penn recalled, he felt “really disillusioned and dried up and tired of being in Hollywood.” He had been acting since