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Party photographer Patrick McMullan plays himself in an episode of Gossip Girl airing Monday night, March 30.

“I’m probably getting और attention from the coming attraction than on the दिखाना itself,” Mr. McMullan told the Daily Transom, referring to the brief half-second during which his mug appeared in a पूर्व दर्शन that aired last Monday. Since then, his many फ्रेंड्स and colleagues—many of them Gossip Girl devotees—have been ringing him to say “Congrats!”

Since the दिखाना premiered in 2007, all sorts of prominent New Yorkers have made cameos: लेखक नीलकंठ, जय, जे McInerney, designer Michael Kors,...