Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick To Attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Three ‘Gossip Girl’ castmembers will be at annual event.

On Saturday, President Obama will host the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and the star power is certainly not dull for this year’s event.

The night will be hosted by Wanda Sykes, and will include celebrity attendees like Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria and John Cusack, according to U.S. News & World Report. And, interestingly, three members of the “Gossip Girl” cast will also be making an appearance, according to UsMagazine.com.

Among the 2,000 guests at the black-tie affair, who in addition to celebs includes members of the press corps and the Washington elite, “Gossip Girl” stars Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr will all be in attendance on Saturday. Crawford, a Democrat, is attending as a guest of Fox News, and according to Us, he “hopes to be seated next to O’Reilly so that he can talk about his pro-Obama beliefs.”

In addition to Crawford, who is currently in New York shooting “Twelve” alongside 50 Cent, other Fox News guests include former vice-presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin and husband Todd, actor Matthew Modine, as well as Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.

“The first thing I did when they asked me to do this gig — I made sure my taxes were paid,” Sykes said on the event’s official Web site. She added that getting the hosting job is “scary but very exciting.”

Bloomberg: Alabama Maersk Capt. Richard Phillips and wife Andrea Phillips (the Somali pirates guy)

Houston Chronicle: Alberto Gonzales (former attorney general)

Fox News: Chace Crawford, Todd Palin, Matthew Modine, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.

National Music Publishers’ Assn.: Kara DioGuardi

Wall Street Journal: Jason Wu (fashion designer, Michelle wears his stuff a lot)

BBC: Sir Howard Stringer, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ellen Burstyn, Phil Gordon

CNN: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick, Brad Cooper, Tyra Banks, Janet Napolitano

ABC News: David and Susan Axelrod; Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff (unf); Peter Orszag, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Valerie Jarrett, senior presidential advisor; Jackie Norris, First Lady’s Chief of Staff; Leon Panetta, CIA Director; Susan Rice, UN Ambassador; Justice Antonin Scalia; Meghan McCain; Jon and Dorothea Bon Jovi; Kate Walsh; Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel

NY Daily News: Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (the Hudson pilot)

Fortune: George Lucas and Glenn Close

People: Sting and Trudie Styler, Miranda Cosgrove, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Jon Hamm, Eva Longoria Parker, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Brooke Shields

Glamour: Narciso Rodriguez, Alicia Keys, Kenneth Cole, Kerry Washington and White House social secretary Desiree Rogers

USA TODAY: Tim Daly, Justin Long, Richard Belzer, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen, Dept. of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Michelle Obama staffer Jocelyn Frye

Atlantic Magazine: Ed Westick (Gossip Girl), Newt Gingrich

Newsweek: Lally Weymouth, Donald Graham and newly Pulitzered Jon Meacham, scored Obama heavyweights again: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder. R. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett Packard; David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca; Representative Eric and Diana Cantor (R-VA).; Fmr. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig; Amb. Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Amb. Richard Holbrooke, Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Ms. Kati Marton; Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post; Jeffrey Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc., and Ms. Sharon Sullivan; Michael Kives, Creative Artists Agency; Martin Nesbitt, President and CEO, PRG Parking Management; Natalie Portman; Sir Nigel and Lady Julia Sheinwald, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the US; Puneet Talwar, National Security Council, Iraq and Afghanistan Affairs; Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago Medical Center; Owen Wilson; James Berkus, United Talent Agency

NBC: Jason Bateman, Natasha Bedingfeld, Connie Britton, Warren Buffett, Kyle Chandler, John Cusack, Ari Emanuel (Rahm’s brother, and the inspiration for Ari on Entourage), Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Colin Firth, Whoopi Goldberg, Mariska Hargitay, Rep. Jane Harmon, Felicity Huffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Jones, Sen. Amy Klobucher, Denis Leary, John Lewis, William H. Macy, Cheryl Mills, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak, Gov. Ed Rendell, Wilbur Ross. Jeff Zucker, Steve Capus and Phil Griffin will attend, along with high-profile talent: Brian Williams, David Gregory, Al Roker, Ann Curry, Natalie Morales, Hoda Kotb, Amy Robach, Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Savannah Guthrie, Luke Russert, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinkski , Norah O’Donnell, David Shuster, Contessa Brewer, Carlos Watson, Tamron Hall, Jim Cramer, Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett.

CBS: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall; Mayor Adrian Fenty; Sen. Lindsey Graham; Gov. Jon Corzine, Amb. Hector Timerman; Colin Powell; Stephanie Cutter; Tom Donilon; Arne Duncan; Michele Flournoy; Lisa Jackson; David Jacobson; Katie Johnson;Bob Schieffer; recording artist Brad Paisley

source for the GG story, source for the guest list.

FYI, the dinner is happening at the Washington Hilton which is at Connecticut & T in Dupont. Feel free to go watch the red carpet. It’ll also prob be on C-SPAN.

Obama approves this guestlist.

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