You can now purchase Jess’s last season as regular on Gossip Girl. The DVD, which was released on August 23rd, comes with the following features:

The DVD is available in Blu-ray at Amazon and other retailers.

Speaking of DVDs, Love, Wedding, Marriage will be out on DVD on September 13th. I will be uploading caps soon.

E! Online caught up with Jess at the Sobe Event she attended on Wednesday and talked to her about Gossip Girl and her plans for the future:

“When I started the fourth season, I kind of had a talk with the producers,” she told me this week at SoBe’s Try Everything party in NYC. “We didn’t know what we were going to do with the characters. After playing someone for four years, it can be a little repetitive. So I was ready for a change.”

Basically, she felt she had done all she could with the character, saying:

“I had so much fun and I made friends I’ll have for a lifetime and it was so great to work in the city, but I got the most I could out of Vanessa.”

Read the full article at EOnline

Sad news for fans of Vanessa, it’s been confirmed by Michael Ausiello of TVLine that Jess, along with cast member Taylor Momsen, will not be returning to Gossip Girl next season as regulars.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Gossip Girl is parting ways with Taylor Momsen (Jenny) and Jessica Szohr (Vanessa).

A source close to the show confirms that the two actresses will not be returning as series regulars for the CW soap’s upcoming fifth season, but added that both have been invited back on a guest star basis.

The insider also confirms that GG‘s core five — Blake Lively (Serena), Leighton Meester (Blair) Penn Badgley (Dan), Ed Westwick (Chuck) and Chace Crawford (Nate) — will all be back in the fall. Additionally, Kaylee DeFer — who joined the cast this spring as Serena’s rabble-rousing cousin Charlie — has been promoted to series regular status.

The departures of Momsen and Szohr hardly come as a complete surprise. Momsen — who has made no secret of her desire to make music her primary focus — has appeared in only a handful of episodes this season. Similarly, Szohr’s alter ego has been given little to do save for a little eavesdropping and meddling here and there. What’s more, Vanessa recently revealed that she was leaving town to study abroad.

source: TVLine

While this chapter of Jess’s life seems to have closed for now, the great news is she still has a lot of projects lined up over the next year, including her yet-to-be released movies, including “Love, Wedding, Marriage”, “Hirokin” and “I Don’t Know How She Does It” amongst many others. I wish her the best of luck in her movie career and hopefully we’ll continue to see lots more of her!

I’ve added the screencaps of Jess from this week’s Gossip Girl. Also, check out the promo for the next ep, airing April 25th.

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I’ve added a new still from GG episode 19 “Pretty in Pink” courtesy of YouKnowYouLove

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Also, here are a couple of spoiler questions about Vanessa on the show.

Question: Please tell me the Gossip Girl producers are going to give Jessica Szohr something to do in these final five episodes. The girl has been a glorified extra all season. —Deb
Ausiello: Glorified extra is a bit of an exaggeration. Can we compromise and call her an Under-Fiver With Benefits? But per exec producer Stephanie Savage, Szohr’s increasingly isolated alter ego is about to get sprung from the backburner. “Vanessa’s very much a part of the rest of the season,” says the boss. “She will make a bold move by the end of the season [that] could put her back in their good graces… or it could put her out of their good graces forever.”

source: TVLine

What can we expect for Nate (Chace Crawford) and Vanessa’s (Jessica Szohr) characters in this last batch of episodes?
JS: Nate continues his relationship with Raina (Tika Sumpter), and he’s very much folded into that story. And Vanessa tries to get back in the good graces of everybody, and we’ll see she’ll end of trying larger and larger things until there is one very very big thing that will happen that changes things.

source: E!Online

Jess appeared on NBC New York yesterday to promote the Dove campaign, as well as talk about Gossip Girl. View below

Or if that doesn’t work, check it out here, courtesy of jessica-szohr.org

I’ve added a new still from GG episode 18 “The Kids Stay in the Picture”.

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I’ve added new pics of Jess on the Gossip Girl set on March 9th. Also added more pics to the March 8th album

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I’ve added new pics of Jess on the Gossip Girl set on March 8th.

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I’ve added the screencaps of Jess from this week’s Gossip Girl. Also, check out the promo for the next ep, airing April 11th.

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Gossip Girl > Season 4 > Screencaptures > 4.17 – EMPIRE OF THE SON