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Lily van der Woodsen Could Die!

Posted Jan 14th 2009 2:38PM by TMZ Staff

Serena's mom on "Gossip Girl" could face an untimely death unless a judge lets her fly.

Kelly Rutheford (Lily van der Woodsen) has a big problem. We've learned she went to court last week and pleaded with the judge in her divorce case to let her go to NYC with her two-year-old, Hermes. The judge shut Kelly down, telling her he'll take the issue up a week from today.

Kelly's going through a mega-nasty divorce with her hubby of 2+ years, Daniel Giersch.

Now here's the problemo. Sources on "Gossip Girl" tell us Kelly is supposed to be in New York to shoot by January 27. If the judge shuts her down next week that's not going to happen. Producers could deal with a small delay and shoot her out of sequence, but if the delay is longer they could just shoot her -- as in her character.

Kelly is pregnant with their second kid. Giersch doesn't want Hermes to travel to NYC because he claims Kelly works insane hours and gets totally stressed out when she's shooting.

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1. at least then the "young couple" sarina and dan could stay together...

Posted at 2:55PM on Jan 14th 2009 by L

2. These people should not be allowed to have children. Nasty divorce after only 2 years and pregnant to boot. Steralize them

Posted at 2:56PM on Jan 14th 2009 by chris

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Posted at 3:46PM on Jan 14th 2009 by VioletteUK

4. Actually, Lily Van der Woodsen, married Chuck's dad, so she's Lily Bass on the show now.... but Mr. Bass died...

yeah... I hope things turn out well for her, I like her on the show! It would be sad to see her go...

I hope something works out!

Posted at 3:54PM on Jan 14th 2009 by whatever, yo

5. This HAS got to be the most boring divorce case on TMZ!!! Slow news day?

Posted at 4:36PM on Jan 14th 2009 by Who Caresss!!!

6. Talk about control over a woman's body! He doesn't want her to work!!??

Posted at 5:15PM on Jan 14th 2009 by atzd

7. Kelly deserves everything she gets, trust. Karma's a bitch (and so is she).

Posted at 6:04PM on Jan 14th 2009 by chillininmiami

8. Who????

Posted at 6:49PM on Jan 14th 2009 by my 3 cents

9. It's good to finally see a father winning a divorce case... He daughter shouldn't be with a woman as self-centered..

Posted at 9:53PM on Jan 14th 2009 by Dan

10. I hope she takes him to the cleaners..

Posted at 1:21AM on Jan 15th 2009 by silverfox

11. These two children need to grow up and realize they are parents, God knows how the kids are going to turn out with these two people as parents. I smell problems..................

Posted at 9:37AM on Jan 15th 2009 by gizmo

12. I hope they clean up their divorce for the sake of their children. He sounds like a MAN SCORNED. She isn't on GG that much that would require her to be gone 20hrs a day for several days. There are several eps that she isn't even in or maybe only 2-3 scenes in the eps she is in. She is NOT a main character. I do not think they will kill her off. I am sure they will work it out. I enjoy Kelly Rutherford as Lily VDW Bass. Hope they do work out their issues and stop bashing each other publicly.

Posted at 12:24PM on Jan 15th 2009 by Rae4kma

13. I think it's disgusting that she is being punished for being a working mother. She can't possibly leave her child behind because then he will claim abandonment and get full custody. She's been placed in an impossible situation and it's not right.

Posted at 1:32PM on Jan 15th 2009 by Diana

14. her crap-ass "husband" is obviously her real stress. Most women don't divorce while pregnant unless they're really dealing with a jerk, and further stressing her out is this court thing he's jerking her around with.

Posted at 8:38PM on Jan 15th 2009 by lorri

15. If lily dies atleaste Serena and Dan can be together
they are way cuter ov a couple than Rufus and Lily.

Posted at 8:06PM on Jan 22nd 2009 by ShayShay

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