January 19, 2011 05:45 PM PST

Gossip Girl Scoop: Lost Star Replaces Illeana Douglas as Lily's Sis

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Gossip Girl has solved its Aunt Carol problem.

The CW soap has recruited Lost‘s Sheila Kelley to guest star as Lily’s sister Carol after Illeana Douglas was forced to drop out at the 11th hour for scheduling reasons.

The character, who is slated to show up in the spring, was originally played by Krysten Ritter in GG‘s season 2 flashback episode/backdoor spinoff pilot.

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Comments (22)

  • Wannabe Tina Fey? No thank you.

    Comment by Michael – January 19, 2011 05:49 PM PST  Reply To This Post

    • Haha. Now that you’ve pointed that out, that’s all I can see!

      Comment by Anne – January 19, 2011 05:57 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Ew, did you seriously just call her a Lost “star?” Us Losties have been trying our hardest to forget that Zoe ever existed.

    Comment by Sarah – January 19, 2011 05:50 PM PST  Reply To This Post

    • Lost star???? I mean when I first read that without looking at the pic I thought you meant… I don’t know, Evangeline Lily

      Comment by Romy – January 20, 2011 06:39 AM PST  Reply To This Post

  • LOST “star”? Haha. Worst actress to EVER appear on LOST. I cheered her character’s death.

    Comment by Jackson – January 19, 2011 05:52 PM PST  Reply To This Post

    • Word! Yes! I agree 100 %.

      Comment by Jess – January 19, 2011 06:10 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Ah, remember that time she taught Lisa Edelstein how to poledance for House? Awesome.

    Anyway, she’s Richard Schiff’s wife so I love her by proxy.

    Comment by xav – January 19, 2011 05:53 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Nooo I really though Illeana was a perfect grown up Krysten Ritter.

    Comment by Jones19 – January 19, 2011 05:54 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • I hated her on Lost! I couldn’t wait until her inevitable death! Plus, unless she is a very good actress, she gives off way different vibes than I would expect her GG character to be like. Oh wait, she isn’t a great actress. So….no.

    Comment by Zeus – January 19, 2011 06:04 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • LOL totally agree !!!

    Comment by ElisBlack – January 19, 2011 06:11 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • HA! This is the second time she’s been brought into a show to replace an actress playing a “sister”. She replaced Jo Anderson way back when on NBC’s “Sisters” as the half sister Charlie. :D

    Comment by SunKrux – January 19, 2011 06:49 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Ugh- I always called her fulgy Tina Fey. I eagerly awaited her death and cheered it.

    Comment by Emily – January 19, 2011 08:02 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Illeana Douglas looks a lot more like Krysten Ritter (or I guess since Krysten is younger, she looks more like Illeana…). I don’t really care who plays her, I’m just looking forward to seeing what she’ll be up to on the UES.

    Comment by Tamara – January 19, 2011 08:10 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • AUGH! NO! WHY?!

    Comment by Summer – January 19, 2011 08:16 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • It is really ballsy to call her a “LOST” actress. Just a stretch. Gossip Girl can have her.

    Comment by Carson – January 19, 2011 08:20 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Ew. Hated her so much on LOST that I gag whenever I see her on any thing.

    Comment by Kate – January 19, 2011 10:44 PM PST  Reply To This Post

  • Never heard of her but Gossip Girl is about pretty people and sorry she’s fug!

    Comment by Jenny – January 20, 2011 01:11 AM PST  Reply To This Post

  • I’m gonna have to be the old fogey to say “What no one remembers her on LA Law?”

    Comment by Evan Meadow – January 20, 2011 01:22 AM PST  Reply To This Post

  • She can’t act so i guess she will fit in perfectly on GG, especially if she has scenes with Chase Crawford for example.

    Comment by dee123 – January 20, 2011 05:23 AM PST  Reply To This Post

  • um…debbie from singles! awesome

    Comment by alexis – January 20, 2011 07:56 AM PST  Reply To This Post

  • What star? She was in a grand total of five episodes of the series. That’s like saying Beth Broderick was the star, since she was also in five episodes. Same with Neil Hopkins, Fisher Stevens, Brad Henke, and Sterling Beaumon. Are they “stars of the series” too?

    Comment by Mitch – January 25, 2011 11:01 AM PST  Reply To This Post

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