A celeb-filled episode of Gossip Girl was the talk of US TV last night as Tyra Banks and Hilary Duff guest-starred on the popular teen show.

Duff plays a famous vampire show actress called Olivia Burke who ditches her celebrity lifestyle in favour of returning to college at NYU.

She meets Dan (Penn Badgley) when buying coffee and introduces herself as Kate to hide her real identity and he doesn’t recognise her.

He then tries to ask her out but she has a dilemma with telling him her identity and claims she isn’t the sort of woman he is looking for.

However, it is Banks who steals the show as Ursula, a spoiled, paranoid, tantrum-throwing star who needs the constant babysitting of her new publicist, Serena, played by Blake Lively.

Serena gets the job after telling Olivia how to escape from the paparazzi from a restaurant who are waiting outside for her.

Olivia’s publicist, impressed with Serena’s skill and know-how, calls her the Diva Whisperer.

She has to escort Ursulla to the premiere (she’s a co-star in Olivia’s movie and has the same publicist) and feels uncomfortable when she has to sit by and not tell Ursulla a scene of her performance has been cut from the film.

Against her boss’s wishes, she convinces Ursulla not to vent her fury about the edits to the press and by the end of the show, Serena gets fired but later rehired.

Source: Splash News