Bloomberg Announces 'Gossip Girl Day' In New York: Penn Badgley Wears '99 Percent' Shirt (PHOTOS)

Mayor Bloomberg loves loves loves it when TV shows and movies are filmed in New York. No surprise then that Thursday Hizzoner bestowed an unusual honor upon one Gotham-based program-- proclaiming January 26th in New York Gossip Girl Day, in celebration of the show's 100th episode.

Look! Bloomberg even XOXO'd a tweet:

And for a show fixated on the swanky lives of the decidedly 1 percent, actor and heartthrob Penn Badgley 'occupied' the stage at the presser for the award Thursday, wearing a "We are the 99 percent" t-shirt.

(Meanwhile, 26 of Badgley's comrades were being arrested during a protest in Brooklyn.)

Priceless photos of Bloomberg and the Gossip cast below:

 

 

Comments

[ennui the third]

03:44 PM on 01/31/2012

This act will certainly be immortalized in bronze and will be looked at in awe from future generations!

[Joseph Schmoe]

09:43 AM on 01/30/2012

Oooh, a celebrity wore a snarky t-shirt and stood next to a thrice-elected billionaire!
I'm still waiting for the headline that reads: "New World Order--fairness instilled across the globe as t-shirt changes everyone's mind."

Unfortunately, this was the best-planned event in the brief history of OWS. Indicative, if you ask me.

[ALoayza]

04:18 PM on 01/29/2012

Wow, people are hating on this guy instead of applauding him on making Mayor Bloomberg look foolish for 1. making a day out of that bad show, and 2. having to stand next to a 99% t-shirt.

I don't care much for the show and don't know who the actor is, but c'mon...he's trying to keep the message alive no matter how much money he personally makes or how untalented he may or may not be.

Objective reasoning is what separates Occupy thinking from irrational Pro-Wall Street propaganda. So use it when considering trashing a supporter.

[Martiniman]

08:34 AM on 01/29/2012

Apparently his "I Can't Act" shirt was in the wash...

[ennui the third]

04:02 PM on 01/27/2012

Isn't it great to see a mayor doing such important work?

[jonnyquest]

11:15 PM on 01/29/2012

Closing schools, senior citizens centers and he's spending time on this, yep he has his priorities start.

[vigoddess]

12:35 PM on 01/27/2012

Good for PENN.
They all should have worn Occupy shirts for this phoney Mayor,
who defended his wealth, more than anything else by persecuting
the OWS, at Zuccotti Park. He was the one who gave the orders
to destroy their equipment, books, and learned that from history
with the Brown shirts who did the same thing. Beat on innocent
people, pen them and haul them away. That's what we all saw,
no matter how they cover the event and that's his legacy with
all that b.s. Money God.

[Joseph Schmoe]

09:44 AM on 01/30/2012

Yes, because as history has proven, it's the message on the t-shirt that topples governments and instills world peace and financial equity.
(I wonder in which Third World sweatshop that t-shirt was made?)

[vigoddess]

12:49 PM on 01/30/2012

History, my dear friend, has proven that once the government becomes
corrupt and supporitve of a few, it topples on its own, as in Rome.
Nero burned the city, trapped the poor inside its walls, blamed the
Christians, divided factions, and Rome still fell because of one
thing; "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
The symbol then was the fish, later the cross.

[Amit Nagpal]

09:56 AM on 01/27/2012

whenever i see this guy penn's name come up, all i can think abt is jennifer aniston in horrible bosses.

[moccasinmike]

08:21 AM on 01/27/2012

isnt it nice that basicially these pesky critters, OWS, are gone as it has dispersed into the air,like the circus act it was,a vile,arrogant,dirty,radical,subversive,and anarchists to boot,and i did not mention a congregation of dreggs from the far reaches of the USA who thought that this 1% could fool us hard working peopleas the media doesnt even take them seriously antmore for good reason,well except possibly the HP,which is a rag.

[bigjakeIII]

10:01 AM on 01/27/2012

the cold air does seem to slow them down.

[moccasinmike]

11:25 AM on 01/27/2012

bigjakell-lol, what a rant hey

[Katie Colling]

11:27 AM on 01/27/2012

You do realise there are 464 occupy camps in the US? Right....? And that the media is part of the people and that is why you dont hear about them much. And that there are thousands of people in DC right now.. And that the cold air didnt slow them down, the police state did...

[moccasinmike]

11:52 AM on 01/27/2012

katie colling-katie luv you hold on to that ship sandwich you are tryn to sell me,its finished,but if thats what gives you hope and makes you happy, being in your little fantatasy land of losers, then so be it, as it is a free country,and to comment on a police state katie travel the world and you will see the true meaning of a police state,the poor police have really held back considering the vile and disorderly crowd you hang with,by little katie.

[ellawensmom]

09:20 AM on 01/30/2012

Katie, you are so right. People who think it's over are in for a big surprise! There are Occupiers all over this country! Those who think they're the only hard working people in this country, and that Occupiers are all lazy, dirty hippies need to turn off the television and get outside more!

[ennui the third]

06:39 AM on 01/27/2012

You voted for this phony and he is doing everything he can to live up to it....ugh.

[2083]

12:43 AM on 01/27/2012

I really doubt he's a member of the 99%.

[Neither Side Wins]

10:13 PM on 01/26/2012

WOW!! A 1%er posing as a 99%er....

[sheoples]

09:53 PM on 01/26/2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkA-rffPVaw
Man Arrested for Wearing Occupy Jacket at Supreme Court

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpSAs-3AJgI
people got arrested for dancing at the jefferson memorial

[eastriverKat]

08:12 PM on 01/26/2012

That guys makes more then the real 99 percent. What a total grandstand move. How dare he wear a shirt thinking he is like a poor person..

[lawtree]

10:57 PM on 01/26/2012

Ever heard of solidarity? yeah. Also anyone making under $500k a year is part of the 99%, bro. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/about-that-99-percent/

[Jonathan Beatrice]

12:43 PM on 01/27/2012

He is wearing it in support to embarrass Bloomberg. It is better that he wore the shirt T-H-E-N, T-H-A-N if he never wore it at all.