Hilary Duff joins Gossip Girl

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"Actress Hilary Duff is heading to New York City's Upper East Side.

According to Entertainment Weekly 's TV insider Michael Ausiello, the starlet will appear in multiple episodes of Gossip Girl as Olivia Burke, a high-profile movie star who enrols in New York University seeking a traditional college experience.

Olivia winds up sharing a room with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr), and Ausiello suggests she'll become romantically entangled with one of the teen drama's male leads (played by Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick).

Duff will make her first Gossip Girl appearance in the fourth episode of season three, slated to air in the US on October 5.

Duff first came to fame in the kids' TV series Lizzie McGuire , and later went on to try her hand at a pop career. She's recently made appearances in several other high-profile TV series, including Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Ghost Whisperer . Earlier in 2009 she filmed a pilot titled Barely Legal , about an 18-year-old lawyer, though it was not picked up for a full series.

Gossip Girl airs in Australia on FOX8."