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- ↑ "Georgina Sherrington on Instagram: Baby on board... due into the station Feb 2021. 👶 🍼 Blue face-mask for a boy - a true COVID-themed "gender-reveal" xxx"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021.
- ↑ Tomasz Frymorgen (20 September 2017). "Gossip Girl is 10 years old, which makes you fully ancient". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
Georgina Sherrington now a 32 year-old acting in films like Dark Ascension II: The Journey to Hell.