Connor Paolo, who plays Serena's gay bro Eric van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl, rejected an offer from the teen soap to become a series regular. (Still lingering over his ridiculous fictional name, aren't you? Pay attention!) Seems the contract he didn't sign called for him to appear in only half of ther season's 25 episodes, which he's already been doing as a recurring player, so it would have bound him to the show while barely using him. Now he's free to accept other gigs on his GG downtime – or leave the show altogether. You know, we've been ...