Chace Crawford Model For Dating Site

Paul @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Chace Crawford from the CW’s Gossip Girl has been hired as a model for an online dating website, WooMe.com, the only problem is … he had no idea.

“Find guys and girls near you,” an ad for WooMe.com says, next to a photo of the “Gossip Girl” star.

According to Crawford’s rep Evelyn Karamanos, the company never asked for permission to use the 23-year-old’s mug.

“They had no right to use his name or photo,” she told the Daily News on Tuesday, adding, “He is not the spokesperson.”

Karamanos has asked the site to remove her client’s photo from the ad immediately.

Crawford’s role as sensitive rich kid Nate Archibald on the hit CW series catapulted him to fame last year.

The actor dabbled in modeling before his big break, but Karamanos said she has “no idea” where the photo, which appears to be recent, came from.

Alas, Crawford’s unwitting venture into the world of online dating was simply a case of mistaken identity, according to Steven Sesar, vice-president of marketing for WooMe.

“We used a picture that had been uploaded to our site by one of our users, which we mistook for a real user,” he said. “Upon notification that the image was not a real user but a known celebrity, we immediately pulled the ad in question and deactivated the user’s profile that contained the fake image.”

source : [new york daily news]

Chace Crawford Model For Dating Site

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