Penn BadgleyGossip Girl’s Penn Badgley has revealed he’s finding it difficult to adjust to the idea he’s a teen heart-throb.

He told Us Weekly recently: “In New York I would say it’s pretty tame, people have a certain respect for the show because it’s a show in the city about the city, [but] out here [in Los Angeles] it gets a little crazy.”

“I would say I once got mauled by 40 or 50 girls on the street, all school girls, all from one of these schools that the show is about and all is plaid skirts, white shirts, and just screaming, eyes glazed over.”