Chanel Banks was located safe in Texas and has spoken to media outlets, though family members still cast doubts

UPDATE: Chanel Maya Banks, a 36-year-old Los Angeles actress who in her 20s appeared in Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods and the 2010 Joel Schumacher feature film Twelve starring Chace Crawford and Rory Culkin, has been found safe and unharmed after news accounts spread word that she’d been missing since October 30.

Missing “Gossip Girl” actor Chanel Banks has been found in Texas two weeks after she went missing in Los Angeles. A LAPD spokesperson confirmed that an outside agency located Banks safe and sound on1.