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NEXT WEEK: An excluisve interview with Matt Barr who played Psycho Derek on season four of One Tree Hill.

The One Tree Hill Podcast will begin airing an exclusive interview with Danneel Harris Monday, July 13, as Harris is set to reprise her role as Rachel Gatina on the seventh season of the CW drama One Tree Hill.

Harris returns to One Tree Hill after over a year absence from the show. She teased that her character of Rachel’s new storyline is what drew her back to the Wilmington, N.C. area where One Tree Hill is filmed.

“Mark Schwahn always planned on Rachel coming back, leaving her storyline open,” Harris said. “When Mark told me the new storyline for Rachel, I knew I had to come back. It is a chance for me to do something completely different.”

It was the storyline that drew Harris from her very busy schedule and finds her landing in Wilmington for a handful of One Tree Hill episodes. She is currently balancing her time on One Tree Hill with completing filming of “The Back-up Plan” in which she is a guest-star opposite Jennifer Lopez and Alex O’Laughlin (who was last seen playing Mick St. John in the CBS series Moonlight).

“I play the nemesis to Jennifer Lopez and that was interesting,” Harris admits. “My first day on set, my first scene, I had to call Jennifer’s character fat. It was like hi Ms. Lopez – superstar – I am just going to call you fat.”

Prior to Harris’ return to the One Tree Hill set, she had appeared in 43 episodes. Her last appearance, prior to her return this season, came March 11 2008 in the episode “You’re Going to Need Someone on Your Side.”