People scores the first photos of Gossip Girl castmates Penn Badgley and Blake Lively enjoying each other’s much-talked-about off-camera company down south, at Mexico’s Paraiso de la Bonita resort. There are photos of them lounging by the pool, holding hands, and KISSING!!! [People]

Lest these photos suggest to you that it’s Penn Badgley in the scope of Ben Widdicombe’s closeted gay sniper rifle this week – where an “actor on a hit show, who has been in a fake relationship for the publicity, enjoyed an undercover date with his boyfriend recently at Paris Commune in the West Village?” – rest assured, it’s not. In unrelated news, Carrie Underwood remains “just friends” with a certain Gossip Girl boy.