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* FakeNationality:
** Belgian Damien Dalgaard is portrayed by Canadian actor Kevin Zegers.
** Crown Prince of Monaco Louis Grimaldi is portrayed by Frenchman Hugo Becker.
** Belgian Damien Dalgaard is portrayed by Canadian actor Kevin Zegers.
** Crown Prince of Monaco Louis Grimaldi is portrayed by Frenchman Hugo Becker.
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The true identity of Gossip Girl was something the writers very obviously didn't know as the show went on, and so the series seemed to be written as if it was never going to be revealed. When it came to do so, they instead changed who it was after allegedly the identity was leaked online. Tellingly, most of the actors mentioned having no idea who Gossip Girl truly was until the finale.
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* BreakupBreakout: Out of all the main characters, Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/PennBadgley were the only cast members to find mainstream success after the series ended.
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* BreakupBreakout: Out of all the main characters, Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/PennBadgley were the only cast members to find mainstream success after the series ended. Though Taylor Momsen did have a successful music career after retiring from acting.
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* NamesTheSame: Nate Archibald is also the name of a former NBA player.
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** Creator/BrieLarson auditioned for an unspecified role.
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** Creator/LeightonMeester appears to have fallen headlong into it. Despite well-received performances in several films, most of her mainstream work flopped, and audiences weren't able to see her anyone besides Blair Waldorf.
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** Creator/LeightonMeester appears to have fallen headlong into it. Despite well-received performances in several films, most of her mainstream work flopped, and audiences weren't able to see her as anyone besides Blair Waldorf.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Defied. The network wanted the show to be filmed in Los Angeles, on sound stages recreating locations like Central Park. Stephanie Savage however fought for it to be filmed on-location in New York, feeling the city itself was a character.
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** Creator/PennBadgley didn't take too kindly to TheReveal that [[spoiler: Dan was actually Gossip Girl all along]], finding it as much of an AssPull as fans did.
*** Badgley also reportedly grew to hate his character in the later seasons, stating in interviews that he felt Dan was a raging hypocrite. Creator/EdWestwick did also not approve of some of Chuck's more deprived actions. His mother, a psychiatrist, would call him up after certain episodes and tell him she's worried about Chuck.
*** Badgley also reportedly grew to hate his character in the later seasons, stating in interviews that he felt Dan was a raging hypocrite. Creator/EdWestwick did also not approve of some of Chuck's more deprived actions. His mother, a psychiatrist, would call him up after certain episodes and tell him she's worried about Chuck.
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** Creator/PennBadgley confessed in interviews that he grew to hate his character, finding Dan to be a raging hypocrite. He also didn't take too kindly to TheReveal that [[spoiler: Dan was actually Gossip Girl all along]], finding it as much of an AssPull as fans did.
*** Badgley also reportedly grew to hate his character in the later seasons, stating in interviews that he felt Dan was a raging hypocrite. ** Creator/EdWestwick did also not approve of some of Chuck's more deprived actions. His mother, a psychiatrist, would call him up after certain episodes and tell him she's worried about Chuck.Chuck.
** While Creator/LeightonMeester has said that the show was "very special" to her, she feels that it wasn't a particularly healthy environment; due to the sixteen-hour filming days and the intense media scrutiny the young actors were under.
* CreatorsApathy: Taylor Momsen admitted to being burnt out with acting in general by the time of the fourth season; having been pushed into modelling and acting at the age of two, she was burnt out by the time she was sixteen. She would bring a guitar to set every day, not wanting to fully be there. She has however spoke gratefully of the producers for releasing her from her contract, allowing her to go on tour with The Pretty Reckless.
** While Creator/LeightonMeester has said that the show was "very special" to her, she feels that it wasn't a particularly healthy environment; due to the sixteen-hour filming days and the intense media scrutiny the young actors were under.
* CreatorsApathy: Taylor Momsen admitted to being burnt out with acting in general by the time of the fourth season; having been pushed into modelling and acting at the age of two, she was burnt out by the time she was sixteen. She would bring a guitar to set every day, not wanting to fully be there. She has however spoke gratefully of the producers for releasing her from her contract, allowing her to go on tour with The Pretty Reckless.
* HostilityOnTheSet: There was reportedly tension on the set between Leighton Meester and Taylor Momsen; supposedly stemming from both pursuing music around the same time. Leighton (who was singing solo) had her music featured on the show, while Music/ThePrettyReckless (Taylor's band) wasn't. The CW even released a statement bluntly saying that the latter would be featured when it was "ready".
* OneTakeWonder: Kristen Bell remarked in a career retrospective that the Gossip Girl narration was the only time in her career that she was "never given a note".
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg got fame for playing various Woobies or {{Plucky Girl}}s. Playing a ManipulativeBitch like Georgina is very different for her.
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* PlayingAgainstType: PlayingAgainstType:
** Matthew Settle was at the time best known for playing creepy or ambiguously psychotic characters, most famously Captain Ronald Speirs in ''Series/BandOfBrothers''.
** Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg got fame for playing various Woobies or {{Plucky Girl}}s. Playing a ManipulativeBitch like Georgina is very different for her.
** Matthew Settle was at the time best known for playing creepy or ambiguously psychotic characters, most famously Captain Ronald Speirs in ''Series/BandOfBrothers''.
** Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg got fame for playing various Woobies or {{Plucky Girl}}s. Playing a ManipulativeBitch like Georgina is very different for her.
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** Connor Paolo turned down repeated offers to upgrade Eric to regular cast member for "personal reasons". When he became a regular on the ABC series ''Revenge'', he left the series completely.
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* ActingInTheDark: Creator/PennBadgley didn't know that [[spoiler: Dan was actually Gossip Girl]] until right before the scene was to be shot.
* ActorAllusion:
** Blair referring to Georgina, played by Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg, as a vampire.
** Chuck, played by Londoner Creator/EdWestwick, gets his haircuts at Piccadilly.
** Blair compares Chuck to House. Creator/LeightonMeester guest-starred on ''Series/{{House}}'', playing a teenager with a huge crush on the title character. Coincidentally, Chuck and House are both dark, twisted JerkWithAHeartOfGold type characters, and Creator/EdWestwick and Creator/HughLaurie are both Englishmen while their characters are American. What makes it funnier is the scene where Chuck is talking to Blair about her British boyfriend and says: "''You can't tell me Bertie Wooster is satisfying your needs''."
** Blair mentions herself and Chuck role-playing "''Literature/WutheringHeights''". Creator/EdWestwick had been cast to play Heathcliff in a new remake but was dropped not long before the episode where Blair makes the mentioning aired.
** As a side effect of the show's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, season four's "The Townie" references ''Film/TheTown'' in which Blake Lively has a role. The same season also saw "Panic Roommate" mash up ''Film/PanicRoom'' and ''Film/TheRoommate'' (Creator/LeightonMeester plays the title role in the latter), and "Easy J" riff on ''Film/EasyA'' (in which Creator/PennBadgley appears). The first season also has an episode called "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" (from ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'', which also has Penn Badgley[[note]] and Brittany Snow, who played as the young Lily Van der Woodsen in the Valley Girls episode.[[/note]]) and the SeriesFinale is called "New York, I Love You XOXO" (after ''New York, I Love You'', with Blake Lively[[note]] and Creator/RachelBilson, who has an uncredited cameo in the episode[[/note]]).
** In Season 1 when Jenny is trying on dresses at Blair's house, Blair tells her a dress is too Series/HannahMontana. Creator/TaylorMomsen was one of many actresses considered for the role.
** During the build-up to and actual [[spoiler: Blair's wedding]], Wallace Shawn makes at least two ''[[Film/ThePrincessBride Princess Bride]]'' references by name.
** In Season 6, Chuck tells Nate that maybe he needs to find himself a ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine''. Former guest star Sebastian Stan (Carter Baizen) starred in this movie.
** In the final season's "It's Really Complicated," when Serena tells Blair that her ex Steven (played by Creator/BarryWatson) tried to get back with her, Blair (who'd rather it was him than Dan again) replies "Ooh, you must be in [[Series/SeventhHeaven seventh heaven]]!"
** Blair has spent time in [[Film/MonteCarlo2011 Monaco]] before.
* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/BlakeLively has a brother called Eric, just like her character Serena.
* ApprovalOfGod: Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the original books, liked all the representations of her characters. The exception is Vanessa - who is a bald Goth in the books and gets AdaptationalAttractiveness to be played by the very pretty Creator/JessicaSzohr in the TV show.
* BreakupBreakout: Out of all the main characters, Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/PennBadgley were the only cast members to find mainstream success after the series ended.
* CreatorBacklash:
** Creator/BlakeLively later called it "emotionally compromising" to play Serena, and hated filming all the sex scenes. (It's telling that unlike Creator/LeightonMeester, Lively never put her work up for Emmy consideration.)
** Chace Crawford (Nate) didn't enjoy his time on the show either and was glad when it finally ended.
** Creator/PennBadgley didn't take too kindly to TheReveal that [[spoiler: Dan was actually Gossip Girl all along]], finding it as much of an AssPull as fans did.
*** Badgley also reportedly grew to hate his character in the later seasons, stating in interviews that he felt Dan was a raging hypocrite. Creator/EdWestwick did also not approve of some of Chuck's more deprived actions. His mother, a psychiatrist, would call him up after certain episodes and tell him she's worried about Chuck.
* DawsonCasting:
** All the main "teen" cast, with the exception of Jenny apply into this trope. Particularly notorious is Nicole Fiscella (Isabel Coates, one of the mean girls), who was born in ''1979''.
*** This ended up affecting the plot of the show, as there was supposed to be a romance arc for Jenny and Nate, but Creator/ChaceCrawford (22 at the time of filming season two) did not feel comfortable making out with Creator/TaylorMomsen, at the time 15.
** An example for season 6 is Sage who is 17 played by Creator/SofiaBlackDElia who was born in 1991, two calendar years older than Momsen.
** Defied to an extent by Creator/KristenBell. She was interested in the project after ''Series/VeronicaMars'' wrapped, but realized she was too old at twenty-six to convincingly play one of the teens. So as a compromise, she provided the voice of the eponymous Gossip Girl.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/LeightonMeester dyed her blonde hair brown before her audition, and kept it brown whenever the show was filming.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Billy Baldwin refused to meet Creator/BlakeLively before their first scene together because he wanted the experience of seeing your father/daughter again after 14 years to be as real for both of them as possible. He also stated that he pretended Blake was his real-life daughter.
* FakeAmerican: Chuck Bass is played by English Creator/EdWestwick.
* FakeBrit: Lord Marcus, played by American Patrick Heusinger. Making it an American playing a Brit who fakes being American. Add to that the scene where Chuck (played by a Brit, as noted above) imitates Marcus' accent to pull a BedTrick on Blair. A Brit playing an American faking a British accent as done by an American.
* HideYourPregnancy: Kelly Rutherford in season two.
* IAmNotSpock:
** Creator/LeightonMeester appears to have fallen headlong into it. Despite well-received performances in several films, most of her mainstream work flopped, and audiences weren't able to see her anyone besides Blair Waldorf.
** Seems to have worked out better for Creator/BlakeLively, who did her hardest to avoid this - including taking drastically against-type roles in ''Film/TheTown'', ''Film/TheAgeOfAdaline'' and in ''Film/ASimpleFavor''. Along with gaining critical acclaim for some of those roles, she's also become well-known for her relationship with Creator/RyanReynolds. While the public still probably remembers her as Serena, that is unlikely to stop her from getting other roles, and the audience likely recognizes her from other works as well.
%%* McLeaned: Bart Bass.
* NamesTheSame: Nate Archibald is also the name of a former NBA player.
* TheOtherDarrin: Florencia Lozano plays Eleanor Waldorf in the pilot. Margaret Colin replaces her for the remainder of the show.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg got fame for playing various Woobies or {{Plucky Girl}}s. Playing a ManipulativeBitch like Georgina is very different for her.
* TheRedStapler:
** Chuck's trademark scarf sold out within days of the pilot episode airing.
** A more general example is that there was a ''Gossip Girl'' inspired clothing line produced, of cheaper versions of the designer labels the characters wore.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/BlakeLively (Serena) and Creator/PennBadgley (Dan), Creator/EdWestwick (Chuck) and Creator/JessicaSzohr (Vanessa) and Creator/LeightonMeester (Blair) and Creator/SebastianStan (Carter). All have now broken up. Matthew Settle (Rufus) and Kelly Rutherford (Lily) also dated in real life.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The ''Valley Girls'' spinoff was picked up, but then cancelled before it could even air.
* StarMakingRole: This made Creator/BlakeLively a household name.
* StillbornFranchise: 2008 saw the release of ''OMFGG – Original Music Featured on Gossip Girl No. 1.'' There would not be a No. 2 (the CD didn't even include the show's opening/closing music for some reason).
* ThrowItIn:
** This ad-libbed dialogue in the last scene from season two:
-->'''Blair''': (''after Chuck told her he loves her'') But, can you say it twice? No I'm serious, say it twice.
-->'''Chuck''': I love you. I love you. That's three. Here's four - I love you.
** The first season received numerous complaints from the Parents' Television Council for being "mind-blowingly inappropriate" and "every parent's nightmare". [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity The show ended up using those as taglines]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The concept was first pitched as a feature film with Creator/LindsayLohan as Blair and Justin Chatwin as Nate. Plans fell through, and the decision was made to pitch it as a TV series instead.
** Creator/MischaBarton was approached to play Georgina Sparks even after [[Series/TheOC the last time she worked with]] Creator/JoshSchwartz, but she turned them down. Enter Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg.
** Nate and Jenny's relationship wasn't supposed to end so suddenly, but Chace Crawford was uncomfortable regularly making out with a teenager and supposedly asked for it to be ended.
** A spin-off set in TheEighties and revolving around a younger Lily was planned. The pilot aired in Season 2 and the show was picked up, but canceled before airing.
** A 16-year-old Creator/JenniferLawrence was one of the many people who [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/jennifer-lawrence-gossip-girl-audition.html auditioned to play Serena]] before Blake Lively was cast.
* WordOfGod: Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have cruelly crushed hopes for [[FanPreferredCouple Vanessa/Rufus]], saying that fans who want them are barking up the wrong tree.
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* ActorAllusion:
** Blair referring to Georgina, played by Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg, as a vampire.
** Chuck, played by Londoner Creator/EdWestwick, gets his haircuts at Piccadilly.
** Blair compares Chuck to House. Creator/LeightonMeester guest-starred on ''Series/{{House}}'', playing a teenager with a huge crush on the title character. Coincidentally, Chuck and House are both dark, twisted JerkWithAHeartOfGold type characters, and Creator/EdWestwick and Creator/HughLaurie are both Englishmen while their characters are American. What makes it funnier is the scene where Chuck is talking to Blair about her British boyfriend and says: "''You can't tell me Bertie Wooster is satisfying your needs''."
** Blair mentions herself and Chuck role-playing "''Literature/WutheringHeights''". Creator/EdWestwick had been cast to play Heathcliff in a new remake but was dropped not long before the episode where Blair makes the mentioning aired.
** As a side effect of the show's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, season four's "The Townie" references ''Film/TheTown'' in which Blake Lively has a role. The same season also saw "Panic Roommate" mash up ''Film/PanicRoom'' and ''Film/TheRoommate'' (Creator/LeightonMeester plays the title role in the latter), and "Easy J" riff on ''Film/EasyA'' (in which Creator/PennBadgley appears). The first season also has an episode called "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" (from ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'', which also has Penn Badgley[[note]] and Brittany Snow, who played as the young Lily Van der Woodsen in the Valley Girls episode.[[/note]]) and the SeriesFinale is called "New York, I Love You XOXO" (after ''New York, I Love You'', with Blake Lively[[note]] and Creator/RachelBilson, who has an uncredited cameo in the episode[[/note]]).
** In Season 1 when Jenny is trying on dresses at Blair's house, Blair tells her a dress is too Series/HannahMontana. Creator/TaylorMomsen was one of many actresses considered for the role.
** During the build-up to and actual [[spoiler: Blair's wedding]], Wallace Shawn makes at least two ''[[Film/ThePrincessBride Princess Bride]]'' references by name.
** In Season 6, Chuck tells Nate that maybe he needs to find himself a ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine''. Former guest star Sebastian Stan (Carter Baizen) starred in this movie.
** In the final season's "It's Really Complicated," when Serena tells Blair that her ex Steven (played by Creator/BarryWatson) tried to get back with her, Blair (who'd rather it was him than Dan again) replies "Ooh, you must be in [[Series/SeventhHeaven seventh heaven]]!"
** Blair has spent time in [[Film/MonteCarlo2011 Monaco]] before.
* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/BlakeLively has a brother called Eric, just like her character Serena.
* ApprovalOfGod: Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the original books, liked all the representations of her characters. The exception is Vanessa - who is a bald Goth in the books and gets AdaptationalAttractiveness to be played by the very pretty Creator/JessicaSzohr in the TV show.
* BreakupBreakout: Out of all the main characters, Creator/BlakeLively and Creator/PennBadgley were the only cast members to find mainstream success after the series ended.
* CreatorBacklash:
** Creator/BlakeLively later called it "emotionally compromising" to play Serena, and hated filming all the sex scenes. (It's telling that unlike Creator/LeightonMeester, Lively never put her work up for Emmy consideration.)
** Chace Crawford (Nate) didn't enjoy his time on the show either and was glad when it finally ended.
** Creator/PennBadgley didn't take too kindly to TheReveal that [[spoiler: Dan was actually Gossip Girl all along]], finding it as much of an AssPull as fans did.
*** Badgley also reportedly grew to hate his character in the later seasons, stating in interviews that he felt Dan was a raging hypocrite. Creator/EdWestwick did also not approve of some of Chuck's more deprived actions. His mother, a psychiatrist, would call him up after certain episodes and tell him she's worried about Chuck.
* DawsonCasting:
** All the main "teen" cast, with the exception of Jenny apply into this trope. Particularly notorious is Nicole Fiscella (Isabel Coates, one of the mean girls), who was born in ''1979''.
*** This ended up affecting the plot of the show, as there was supposed to be a romance arc for Jenny and Nate, but Creator/ChaceCrawford (22 at the time of filming season two) did not feel comfortable making out with Creator/TaylorMomsen, at the time 15.
** An example for season 6 is Sage who is 17 played by Creator/SofiaBlackDElia who was born in 1991, two calendar years older than Momsen.
** Defied to an extent by Creator/KristenBell. She was interested in the project after ''Series/VeronicaMars'' wrapped, but realized she was too old at twenty-six to convincingly play one of the teens. So as a compromise, she provided the voice of the eponymous Gossip Girl.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/LeightonMeester dyed her blonde hair brown before her audition, and kept it brown whenever the show was filming.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Billy Baldwin refused to meet Creator/BlakeLively before their first scene together because he wanted the experience of seeing your father/daughter again after 14 years to be as real for both of them as possible. He also stated that he pretended Blake was his real-life daughter.
* FakeAmerican: Chuck Bass is played by English Creator/EdWestwick.
* FakeBrit: Lord Marcus, played by American Patrick Heusinger. Making it an American playing a Brit who fakes being American. Add to that the scene where Chuck (played by a Brit, as noted above) imitates Marcus' accent to pull a BedTrick on Blair. A Brit playing an American faking a British accent as done by an American.
* HideYourPregnancy: Kelly Rutherford in season two.
* IAmNotSpock:
** Creator/LeightonMeester appears to have fallen headlong into it. Despite well-received performances in several films, most of her mainstream work flopped, and audiences weren't able to see her anyone besides Blair Waldorf.
** Seems to have worked out better for Creator/BlakeLively, who did her hardest to avoid this - including taking drastically against-type roles in ''Film/TheTown'', ''Film/TheAgeOfAdaline'' and in ''Film/ASimpleFavor''. Along with gaining critical acclaim for some of those roles, she's also become well-known for her relationship with Creator/RyanReynolds. While the public still probably remembers her as Serena, that is unlikely to stop her from getting other roles, and the audience likely recognizes her from other works as well.
%%* McLeaned: Bart Bass.
* NamesTheSame: Nate Archibald is also the name of a former NBA player.
* TheOtherDarrin: Florencia Lozano plays Eleanor Waldorf in the pilot. Margaret Colin replaces her for the remainder of the show.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg got fame for playing various Woobies or {{Plucky Girl}}s. Playing a ManipulativeBitch like Georgina is very different for her.
* TheRedStapler:
** Chuck's trademark scarf sold out within days of the pilot episode airing.
** A more general example is that there was a ''Gossip Girl'' inspired clothing line produced, of cheaper versions of the designer labels the characters wore.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/BlakeLively (Serena) and Creator/PennBadgley (Dan), Creator/EdWestwick (Chuck) and Creator/JessicaSzohr (Vanessa) and Creator/LeightonMeester (Blair) and Creator/SebastianStan (Carter). All have now broken up. Matthew Settle (Rufus) and Kelly Rutherford (Lily) also dated in real life.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The ''Valley Girls'' spinoff was picked up, but then cancelled before it could even air.
* StarMakingRole: This made Creator/BlakeLively a household name.
* StillbornFranchise: 2008 saw the release of ''OMFGG – Original Music Featured on Gossip Girl No. 1.'' There would not be a No. 2 (the CD didn't even include the show's opening/closing music for some reason).
* ThrowItIn:
** This ad-libbed dialogue in the last scene from season two:
-->'''Blair''': (''after Chuck told her he loves her'') But, can you say it twice? No I'm serious, say it twice.
-->'''Chuck''': I love you. I love you. That's three. Here's four - I love you.
** The first season received numerous complaints from the Parents' Television Council for being "mind-blowingly inappropriate" and "every parent's nightmare". [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity The show ended up using those as taglines]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The concept was first pitched as a feature film with Creator/LindsayLohan as Blair and Justin Chatwin as Nate. Plans fell through, and the decision was made to pitch it as a TV series instead.
** Creator/MischaBarton was approached to play Georgina Sparks even after [[Series/TheOC the last time she worked with]] Creator/JoshSchwartz, but she turned them down. Enter Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg.
** Nate and Jenny's relationship wasn't supposed to end so suddenly, but Chace Crawford was uncomfortable regularly making out with a teenager and supposedly asked for it to be ended.
** A spin-off set in TheEighties and revolving around a younger Lily was planned. The pilot aired in Season 2 and the show was picked up, but canceled before airing.
** A 16-year-old Creator/JenniferLawrence was one of the many people who [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/jennifer-lawrence-gossip-girl-audition.html auditioned to play Serena]] before Blake Lively was cast.
* WordOfGod: Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have cruelly crushed hopes for [[FanPreferredCouple Vanessa/Rufus]], saying that fans who want them are barking up the wrong tree.
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