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HollywoodNews.com: “Gossip Girl” has been brutal to Chuck Bass of late, but according to Ed Westwick, change is on its way for the Upper East Side’s most infamous womanizer.

As he tells Entertainment Tonight, “After everything that happened in season three, Chuck really just wants a whole new identity,” he said. “He wants to leave his old world behind and his old life and he wants something new.”

In the first few episodes of the show’s newest upcoming season, this desire apparently takes Chuck to Paris, where he’ll debut his new French girlfriend (played by “Harry Potter” star Clemence Poesy). Westwick explains, “He wants a new start and he wants to be different in himself. So I think the way he ends up in Paris – it offers a new start to him.”

“Gossip Girl” returns September 13.