The upcoming threesome episode on “Gossip Girl” seems to be getting everyone’s knickers in a twist, even before the much-anticipated episode of the scandalous TV show about rich New York teens airs on Monday.

The TV watchdog group the Parents Television Council says the “3SOME” tryst is “reckless and irresponsible” in view of the “impressionable teenagers” that it says are the show’s main target , and has urged affiliates of the CW network not to air it.

Fans of the show however, seem to be more concerned about trying to figure out which of the fabulously rich, beautiful young things  — now out of high school and supposedly at college — will be involved in the three-way hookup.

Judging by the bed-hopping enjoyed so far by the characters on the show,  pretty much any of them could be persuaded (or maybe tricked?) into a brief menage a trois,  although we’re betting that bad boy Chuck (Ed Westwick) and scheming Blair (Leighton Meester)  will be playing a major role.

Like all publicity ,  good and bad, the PTC warning may have the opposite effect in whetting the appetite of lapsed “Gossip Girl” fans to the scandalous story line.

As Britney Spears sang in her recent No. 1 single “Three” (on the same subject) “Three is a charm, Two is not the same.”

“Gossip Girl” is currently getting an audience of about 2.2 million a week, and although the CW as a whole is aimed at women between the ages of 18-34, the network says the median age of “Gossip Girl” viewers is 27 years old.

Try telling that to your teens.

The lovelorn vampires of “Twilight” will vie for top honors at the Teen Choice Awards on Aug. 9 with the singing stars of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”

“Twilight” garnered 12 nominations, ahead of 10 for “High School Musical 3.” Miley Cyrus and the teen soap “Gossip Girl” also scored 10 each, while event hosts the Jonas Brothers snagged nine.

The ceremony will be held at the Gibson Amphithreatre near Hollywood, and will be broadcast on Fox the next day. Fans aged 13 to 19 can each vote once daily for their top picks at teenchoiceawards.com.

“Twilight” stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were respectively nominated for choice movie actor and actress in the drama category. The film’s other nods included choice movie in both the drama and romance catgories. Taylor Lautner, Nikki Reed and Ashley Greene will compete for fresh face awards, and Cam Gigandet for the villain award.

The only head-to-head competition between “Twilight” and “High School Musical 3″ in the movie category was in the liplock category: Stewart and Pattinson vs. Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. Cyrus was also nominated, along with her “Hannah Montana 3″ co-star Lucas Till.

Efron was also nominated for choice movie actor in the music/dance category, alongside co-star Corbin Bleu. Till and “Hannah Montana” co-star Jason Earles will also compete. In the actress race, Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale were up against Cyrus. Cyrus also picked up nominations in the TV and music races, and in random races such as choice female hottie.

Actress Leighton Meester, best known for her role as Blair Waldorf in the TV show “Gossip Girl,” has been named as FHM Online’s hottest star on TV this fall — while comedy “Kath and Kim” has topped its list of shows most likely to be axed.

 The 22-year-old actress who was born in a Texas prison, beat Hayden Panettiere from “Heroes” and Madeline Zima from “Californication” for the title.

“As bad girl Blair Waldorf in this year’s breakout hit “Gossip Girl” Leighton Meester has stolen the spotlight with her mind-blowing good looks and amazing performance,” said FHM Online U.S. Editor JR Futrell.

Here is FHM’s list of hottest TV stars this fall:

1. Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl)
2. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes)
3. Madeline Zima (Californication)
4. Deanna Russo (Knight Rider)
5. Jamie Lynn Sigler (Entourage)
6. Jaime King (Gary Unmarried)
7. Summer Glau (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
8. Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang Theory)
9. Dania Ramirez (Heroes)
10. Eva Longoria-Parker (Desperate Housewives)

As well as ”Kath & Kim”, which stars Molly Shannon and Selma Blair,  FHM Online forecast “Stylista”, “Do Not Disturb”, “Crusoe” and “The Ex List” were most likely be cancelled. Do you agree?

The young stars of U.S. television show “Gossip Girl” may soon be among the most talked-about actors and actresses in Hollywood, if Vanity Fair magazine is the judge.

Seven actors from the program, which tells about privileged teens growing up in Manhattan, were picked for the magazine’s story — posted on its Web site on Monday — of up-and-coming actors and actresses in Hollywood, including Blake Lively (pictured at right), who plays an elite New York prep school student in “Gossip Girl.”

Among others from the show joining Lively were Penn Badgley, 21, Ed Westwick, 21, and Jessica Szohr, 23. Elsewhere, other young talent deemed “Hollywood’s Next Wave” by the magazine were Emma Stone of the movie “Superbad” and recording artists the Jonas Brothers.

Back in 2003, Vanity Fair profiled numerous young Hollywood stars, including Evan Rachel Wood and Hillary Duff, and many of them went on to stardom with mixed results. Also on the 2003 list was Lindsay Lohan, 21, whose personal life took a tumble last year as she struggled with drug and alcohol abuse.

Lively, 20, who has an upcoming role in the movie “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2,” has seen her gossipy life on TV show mirrored recently in her personal life as she is now tailed by celebrity photographers.

Stone, 19, stars in the upcoming movies “The Rocker” and “The House Bunny.” Her “Superbad” co-star Jonah Hill, 24, also made the Vanity Fair story. He followed up his comedic role in 2007’s “Superbad” with a part in the film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” this year.

Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas — who are 20, 15 and 18 respectively — are from New Jersey, and as bandmantes in the Jonas Brothers they have toured with singer Miley Cyrus, 15, of the Disney show “Hannah Montana.”

Also singled out were: actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse, 19, whose breakout role in “Superbad” had him play a teen who gets a fake ID with the name “McLovin” to score beer for friends; actress Rachael Taylor, 23, star of the movie “The Transformers;” and actor Jay Baruchel, 26, who appeared in the film “Knocked Up.”

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis)