As filming begins on a new series of Gossip Girl

Wicked whispers: Gossip Girl's stars (from left) Leighton Meester, Blake Lively and Taylor Momsen

Gossip Girl is a little secret I share with most women of my acquaintance. Based on the antics of a group of super privileged teenagers on New York's Upper East Side, we thirty-something ladies are clearly not its target audience.

But the show, with its dark storylines, wonderful fashion and sexy views of Manhattan's wealthiest lifestyles, is addictive - and it is no wonder that it is being touted as TV's new Sex And The City.

As filming begins on a new series of Gossip Girl