The magazine reports that as he plays the most popular guy in school on Gossip Girl, so it makes sense that Chace Crawford has a major crush on a real-life social queen bee, The Hills star Lauren Conrad.

“She is so hot!” he recently gushed to a friend. Chace acted on his crush when he saw LC recently. “He flat-out told her she was sexy, and she giggled a lot!” an insider close to the 22-year-old actor tells In Touch. “Chace said she’s so nice, too — the nicest out of all the Hills girls. He thinks she’s very sexy.”

The magazine asks the right question, does Lauren, 22, return the sentiment? “LC thinks Chace is super-cute,” a Hills insider says. “She would definitely consider going on a date with him!” Chace told In Touch at the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto on June 15 that Lauren is “cute — real cute.”