Critics and parents may be seeing red over the latest round of racy Gossip Girl ads, but the show’s stars don’t mind at all.

“We just end up seeing it on a billboard somewhere,” Leighton Meester told Access Hollywood at the Teen Choice Awards Sunday. “But I think that it’s smart and it’s fine and it’s cool.”

The ad campaign, which launched last April when the show came back from hiatus, has continued into the summer with irreverent print ads featuring racy scenes from the coming season and negative critic reviews of the CW show — used to promote its drama.

“They’re very smart,” said Chace Crawford, who plays Nate Archibald on the show. “Everybody keeps saying they’re so racy, of course they’re racy, but you say they’re smart.”

Smart, maybe. Controversial, definitely. And the show has no plans to stop with its headline-grabbing antics, including some new rhetoric being introduced on the show.

“There’s a lot more [language],” Meester said. “I say Bass-hole, I say something else, but it’s all Chuck Bass-related.”

For his part, Ed Westwick, who won Favorite TV Villain at the awards for his naughty portrayal of Bass on the show, is a huge fan of the ad campaign.

“I love [the attention],” he said. I can’t get enough of it.”

Gossip Girl hottie Leighton Meester and her boyfriend Sebastian Stan leave the bowling alley at Chelsea Piers in New York City on Tuesday.

Sebastian, 24, is best known for playing “Chase Collins” in the 2006 film The Covenant. He also appeared on Broadway in the play Talk Radio, as the character “Kent”.

Mr. Stan has been on two episodes of Gossip Girl and has ties to Chace Crawford, who also appeared in The Covenant.

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Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester signs autographs as she leaves Late Night with Conan O’Brien at NBC Studios in New York on Wednesday.

In Leighton’s interview with Conan, she said one of her nicknames was “Happy Feet” because of her love for dancing.

Check out the video of Leighton showing Conan her signature dance move!

Leighton came in at #48 on Maxim’s Hot 100 List.

Leighton Meester puts on a silly face while filming a wedding scene for Gossip Girl in New York City on Wednesday.

Looks like there’s some tension between Blair and Chuck at Lily van der Woodsen’s wedding!

Also spotted on set: Jessica Szohr, Ed Westwick, Blake Lively and Kelly Rutherford.

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The cast of Gossip Girl film a the wedding scene on a rainy Tuesday in New York City.

If you’ve been following the show, wedding bells are ringing for Lily van der Woodsen (Serena’s mom, played by Kelly Rutherford) and Bart Bass (Chuck’s father, played by Robert John Burke).

Spotted on set: Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Jessica Szohr, Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester. They all started filming this scene last Wednesday at NYC’s Palace Hotel.

15+ pictures inside of the Gossip Girl cast getting their wedding on…Plus Sorry for the lack of updates by me I have been so busy but now Im ready

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