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A writer on Gossip Girl has revealed which character was originally supposed to be the person behind the “Gossip Girl” blog.
The hit drama – based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar – followed the lives of a group of wealthy teenagers living on the the upper east side in New York City.
The show is narrated by an unknown, omniscient blogger named “Gossip Girl” (voiced by Kristen Bell) who routinely reveals secrets to stir drama across the show’s six seasons.
Fans of the series will recall that the person behind the account was finally revealed to be Dan Humphrey (played by Penn Badgley) in a twist that many fans criticised as underwhelming and implausible.
Now, however, Joshua Safran – an original writer on the series – has revealed it was a different character who was originally intended to be Gossip Girl.
Safran told The Daily Beast: “I wanted it to be Nate, and it actually makes much more sense when it’s Nate – even when it doesn’t make sense. I mean, it would have been great to never reveal it.”
He went on to explain that it was Nate (portrayed by Chace Crawford) who was originally intended to be Gossip Girl.
“It was Nate until the day I left,” he said. “I think we all came to the conclusion that it might be Nate by the end of season four, and then we spent season five teeing it up.
“If you watch it, there are many clues to it being Nate. But I also think weirdly, in noir fashion, it’s great that we dropped a red herring. But it wasn’t as organic as Dan.”
Safran went on to explain the reasons for why Nate would have been a feasible choice, stating “it was based on this idea that he’d felt so guilty for sleeping with Serena (Blake Lively) that he had to create an alter ego to bring us all to it”.
With Dan as Gossip Girl, however, Safran said that Badgley’s outsider character was a credible option because “he wanted to find a way in [to the ‘cool’ crowd]”.
Gossip Girl ran from 2007 to 2012. A reboot of the series was announced last year.
Safran serves as a showrunner on the forthcoming reboot, which will air in the UK on BBC One later this year.
But as it turns out, Joshua Safran, a writer and producer from the original show, revealed exactly which character was originally meant to be in Dan
Dan
The character Dan "Lonely Boy" Humphrey is the son of rocker Rufus Humphrey, and the older brother of Jenny Humphrey. Dan and his family reside in Brooklyn. He is a writer and attends the St. Jude's School for boys.
's shoes as Gossip Girl. He admitted that it was never meant to be Dan, but rather Nate Archibald
Nate Archibald
Nathaniel Fitzwilliam Archibald is a character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Chace Crawford in the television series of the same name.
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nate_Archibald_(Gossip_Girl)
, who spoke at Vulture Festival over the weekend, the original identity of Gossip Girl was actually meant to be either Connor Paolo's Eric van der Woodsen (Serena's younger brother) or Chace Crawford's Nate Archibald.
Gossip Girl fans were divided over the revelation that Dan Humphrey was the Gossip Girl; many felt that it didn't make sense given his actions throughout the show. The show's creators originally planned for Serena's brother Eric to be the Gossip Girl, but had to change their plans due to a set leak.
In both the novels and the television adaption, Gossip Girl is a blogger whose true identity is never fully revealed. Her true identity is revealed in the television series finale to be Dan Humphrey, however, both Georgina Sparks and Serena van der Woodsen stole the blog at some point.
The "Gossip Girl" showrunners didn't want the actors focusing too heavily on who would end up being the mysterious Gossip Girl, so it was not revealed until the final scripts were handed out.
In the final episode of the series, it is revealed that Jenny knew that her brother, Dan Humphrey, was the mysterious blogger behind Gossip Girl. She returns to the Upper East Side, appearing in the five-year time jump for her brother's wedding to Serena van der Woodsen.
I mean, it would have been great to never reveal it.” He went on to explain that it was Nate (portrayed by Chace Crawford) who was originally intended to be Gossip Girl. “It was Nate until the day I left,” he said.
Serena discovers that the culprit was actually Georgina Sparks, a past classmate of both Serena and Chuck. It is later revealed that Chuck lost his virginity to Georgina in the sixth grade.
With Dan, it makes sense because he wanted to find a way in; but with Nate, it was because he'd never sent anything in to Gossip Girl, and if it had been Nate, it was based on this idea that he'd felt so guilty for sleeping with Serena that he had to create an alter ego to bring us all to it."
Part of why Nate Archibald, Chuck Bass, Jenny Humphrey, and the rest of the gang aren't in the show is because it's just too big. The new cast has 16 series regulars (Gossip Girl 1.0 had seven) and 22 recurring characters (instead of the original's 12).
All of Chuck's searching has proven fruitless, but it only took Serena an episode to figure out the truth: Diana Payne (guest star Elizabeth Hurley) is actually Chuck's mother! Apparently, the original Gossip Girl knew the truth about Chuck's maternity and had used the secret to blackmail Diana.
One secret Taylor Momsen is ready to tell? Why—and how—she left her role as Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl ahead of The CW series' fifth season back in 2011. And when it comes down to it, after more than a decade of life as a child star, she wanted to return to her first passion—music.
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Fans have often noted that maybe Dan damaged his own reputation via Gossip Girl along with targeting his friends, so no one would think that he could be Gossip Girl, but these revelations made Dan's life substantially harder.
But even if the pilot episode did end up spoiling Gossip Girl's identity, it wasn't planned that way. In a 2017 interview with Vulture, executive producer Joshua Safran revealed that writers and producers didn't have a specific person in mind for Gossip Girl at first, but eventually landed on Serena's brother Eric.
As well as this Ed Westwick (Chuck) and Jessica Zohr (Vanessa) dated too. Perhaps the least shocking off screen couple was Penn Badgely (Dan) and Blake Lively (Serena). There were also rumours of Kelly Rutherford (Lily) and Matthew Settle (Rufus) dating yet these were never confirmed!
The fact that the publication guessed that Eric played this role proves that there is some logic behind it. Like Dan, Eric is one of the most likable Gossip Girl characters, and Eric's reveal might've garnered empathy given his struggles with his parents.
Lively and Badgley weren't the only ones to mix business with pleasure on Gossip Girl. Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) dated Jessica Szohr (Vanessa Abrams) on and off through the series' run before splitting for good in 2010.
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“Blake and Leighton were not friends,” executive produced Joshua Safran told the publication. “They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair. Yet the second they'd be on set together, it's as if they were.”
“Dan was not my intended Gossip Girl… But I understand why Dan was Gossip Girl. I just had my heart set on Nate.” That's right, blue-blooded Nate Archibald was Safran's choice to have spent his teen years and early 20s spilling the scandal beans on his closest friends.
“But with Nate, it was because he'd never sent anything in to Gossip Girl, and if it had been Nate, it was based on this idea that he'd felt so guilty for sleeping with Serena that he had to create an alter ego to bring us all to it.”
Yes they did! Leighton Meester (Blair) dated Sebastian Stan (Carter Baizen) for a while.As well as this Ed Westwick (Chuck) and Jessica Zohr (Vanessa) dated too. Perhaps the least shocking off screen couple was Penn Badgely (Dan) and Blake Lively (Serena).
In a 2017 interview with Vulture, executive producer Joshua Safran revealed that writers and producers didn't have a specific person in mind for Gossip Girl at first, but eventually landed on Serena's brother Eric. “I always thought it was Eric until the end of Season 2, and I even guided it that way,” he said.
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