Maybe starring on such a fashion-drenched TV show has rendered Penn Badgley qualified to dispense fashion advice, because he told Cosmo what he looks for when it comes to women’s style:

“A sweater-dress really can be the sexiest thing. As a man, I just like the simpler things ... A plunging V-neck looks like she pulled it off the floor of a man’s bedroom. There’s something so sensual about it.”

Go on Penn, go on…

Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are definitely the cutest actors who’ve played a couple on TV that refuse to acknowledge they’re one in real life too. Luckily, “Gossip Girls” in training all around New York are constantly telling the tabs about their Blake/Penn sightings. Like last week, the two were spotted having brunch and smooching at Five Points restaurant. According to People, “The actor was very doting and even walked his girlfriend to the bathroom at the end of their meal. The two left the restaurant arm-in-arm.”

Um, back the truck up a second. He walked her to the bathroom? I’d never heard of this particular convention until last summer, when a date offered to do this. “Why would you walk me to the bathroom?” I asked. “Oh, I thought that was common courtesy,” he said. Sweet, but I’m a big girl. I can make it the 15 feet to the bathroom on my own. I’m not really interested in having you join me for the walk, unless you’re planning to join me in there for a quickie.

I’m all for opening doors and you giving me your jacket when I’m cold, but here are eight other supposedly gentlemanly moves we don’t understand. Though any effort is always appreciated, even if it’s a little weird.

Whoa there tiger. Leave her some face for later. [Filming Gossip Girl, New York City, 7/15/08]

Normally, wet white t-shirts have been used on drunken Spring Break girls. But the geniuses at In Style have finally appropriated the tight, sheer, T for women by putting Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley in one. I’m sure he was cold on set soaking wet, but the pictures are super hot. Then, once they got him stripped down and warmed up, they asked him about what he finds sexy.  So based on his responses, The Frisky scientists have extrapolated how a date with him would go: After you cheer for him while he plays sports, he’ll take you home, put on some sultry Common, feed you chocolate strawberries and then eff you.  That damn Serena Van der Woodsen really is the luckiest girl in the world! (For more hotness, there’s a video after the jump…) [Towelroad]

The young guys of Gossip Girl, the hit CW show about Manhattan’s elite teens, are so sexy they make us feel like cougars. The barely legal boys, Penn Badgley (nice guy Dan), Chace Crawford (tortured prepster Nate), and Ed Westwick (bad-boy Chuck), are getting even closer than the steamy scripts permit in this month’s Out magazine.  It’s a three for the price of one issue, since the gay men’s mag has found a way to fit them all into one frame and made the Gossip Guys cover boys with a full spread inside. The three were photographed wrestling, playing with Nerf guns, and crossing swords—not like that, you pervs! We’re talking fencing here! Whether or not they’re gay, straight, or taken (Crawford has been linked to country star Carrie Underwood), we can all get some hot prep school boy action without having to wait until Wednesday’s episode. Now that’s something we can all get behind. [Out Magazine]