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There are a few things you probably don’t know about the actress Kristen Bell. First off, she just turned 31 years old (seriously, I thought she was like twenty…nothing). Secondly, she loves sloths. Like really loves them. Like really, really loves them. So much that when her boyfriend, Parenthood‘s Dax Shepard, arranged to have one brought over for her birthday, she had a full on panic attack. And he taped it. And then she showed it on Ellen.

It’s amazing.

Who’s prettier, more conniving and more ambitious: the characters from the CW’s Gossip Girl or the media elite? Both live in worlds of ambition, access, even backstabbing, and some might say it’s all one big popularity contest. But it’s not just beauty and a knack for spreading news quickly that unite our favorite teen-soap and the media figures whose every move we track. Spotted: Our favorite Gossip Girl characters and their real-life media counterparts.