How did they find out Dan was Gossip Girl?
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's shoes as Gossip Girl. He admitted that it was never meant to be Dan, but rather Nate Archibald who ran the notorious blog detailing the secrets of Manhattan's elite.
In the series finale, New York, I Love You XOXO, Dan reveals that he was Gossip Girl all along. He reasons that he did so in an attempt to write himself into the world of the Upper East Side.
| "Desperately Seeking Serena" | |
|---|---|
| Gossip Girl episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Michael Fields |
| Written by | Felicia D. Henderson |
She's having an affair with Dan, which Louis planned to expose at the Spectator's New Year's Eve bash. (Ugh, Louis.) Dan and Blair were sneaking around together — but only to go to church! Blair had confided in Dan about her moment with God before she even told Serena, and he was merely keeping her secret as asked.
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.
Though the blog acts as a framework throughout the show, the blogger's true identity is not disclosed until Gossip Girl's final episode. Theories ran rampant over the years until it was finally revealed that despite being voiced by Kristen Bell, Gossip Girl was, in fact, “Brooklyn Boy,” aka Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley).
Dan Humphrey was revealed to be Gossip Girl
The finale of Gossip Girl finally showed who was revealing the secrets of our favorite characters. Dan revealed in a Gossip Girl post publicly that he has been the writer all along.
Hurt, Serena breaks up with him and plans to move to Los Angeles. In The Revengers, Dan attempts to give her the last chapter of his serial series to convince her to stay in Manhattan. She reads it in the series finale, New York, I Love You XOXO, and learns that Dan was Gossip Girl all along.
During the series finale, it was revealed that none other than Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), the outsider from Brooklyn who harbored an obsession with “it girl” Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), was—against all logic and reason—the Upper East Side puppeteer.
Blair confronts Dan for cheating on her with Serena During Thanksgiving Dinner, Blair tries to convince Serena not to get back together with Dan because he's bad news.
Who did Serena cheat on Dan with?
8 Dan Slept With His Teacher
Dan made this huge deal about how Serena had slept with her teacher, Ben, when she was at boarding school. It turns out Serena didn't sleep with her teacher but only had a crush on him; Lily added in the sleeping together rumor to "save" Serena's reputation.
Gossip Girl's Dan Humphrey thought he was the best person ever, and even if did do good deeds, he was also the ultimate "nice guy". While Gossip Girl is everybody's go-to drama about the obnoxiously wealthy and their dramas, all fans of the CW show unanimously agree that Dan's story arc and his final revelation was...
After sleeping with Chuck (The Wrong Goodbye) and Louis (multiple times over the summer), Blair isn't sure who the father of the baby is. After encouragement from Dan and Dorota, she gets a paternity test done and finds out it is Louis' baby (The Jewel of Denial).
In the fifth season, Blair is revealed to be pregnant with Prince of Monaco, Louis Grimaldi's child. However the child later dies before birth after a car crash Blair and Chuck were in.
After a month hiatus of our beloved CW drama opera, Blair and Dan finally had the chance to do what they've been waiting for so long to do — have sex. But of course, the big event didn't live up to their expectations. The two finally got it on in Dan's Brooklyn loft (classy B) and quickly left in disappointment.
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.
Gossip Girl's ratings and viewership were declining in its final seasons. Despite its massive success in its peak years, reports suggest that Gossip Girl wasn't performing as well in its later seasons — which, according to CBR.com, likely contributed to the decision to end the show in 2012.
Nobody said this was a love story between a nice boy and girl. But they are well suited. In the end, Serena saw Dan as someone she could respect because he gained control of a world she never could, and he made her into a god. They make perfect sense in a dark, twisted sort of way.
Eventually, after the main couples of the show — Chuck with Blair and Dan with Serena, respectively — have happily paired off, the series finally reveals the identity of Gossip Girl: Dan Humphrey, who "wrote his way" into the lives of the popular kids who always ignored him at their elite, expensive high school.
After cracking the code, Blair, Chuck and Dan follow Diana's day planner to a huge mansion where they discover a high-class brothel. They learn that she's working under the name India as the owner of the brothel.
Who does Dan end up with in Gossip Girl?
In this final episode, the death of Bart Bass rushes Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) to marry Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) and the identity of Gossip Girl is revealed. A five-year flash forward takes place and shows the wedding of Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) to Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively).
In the season finale The Goodbye Gossip Girl, Rufus and Lily make up and he proposes to her. She accepts.
The show jumps forward to reveal that Serena is getting married to Dan. Yes, Dan finally wins the woman of his dreams. Played by Blake Lively (instead of Jennifer Lawrence), Serena and Dan's wedding comprises the busy final minutes of the show.
In the Fifth Season, Dan still possessed feelings for Blair. Blair, however, had seemed to have forgotten any romantic feelings towards Dan due to her upcoming marriage to Prince Louis Grimaldi of Monaco. However, Blair ends up not being happy because she still has romantic feelings for Chuck.
Lola's scheme to unmask Serena as Gossip Girl in last night's episode inadvertently led to another major reveal: Diana Payne (guest star Elizabeth Hurley) is Chuck's mother!
Nate then renews his relationship with Blair and they become a couple again (Remains of the J). In Seder Anything, Nate is asked to be Tripp's best man in his wedding to Maureen van der Bilt.
Diehard Gossip Girl fans know that Penn Badgley (Dan) and Blake Lively (Serena) dated both on screen and off in 2007. Yes, at one point they were a real-life couple, but things fizzled after only a few years.
Who does Blair (Leighton Meester) choose? The decision was relatively simple for the Waldorf when given the choice between Dan (Penn Badgley) or Chuck (Ed Westwick). In the end, it was all about the one that got away: Chuck Bass.
Chuck learns that Dan was the one who sent the video of him and Blair at her wedding ceremony and sends a blast to Gossip Girl. However, Phil inadvertently leaves Chuck's name in the blast. William Van der Woodsen (William Baldwin) returns to the Upper East Side for the wake, and is the executor of CeCe's estate.
| "The End of the Affair?" | |
|---|---|
| Gossip Girl episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Michael Grossman |
| Written by | Sara Goodman |
Did Chuck and Serena ever sleep together?
Novel Series. In the books, Serena and Chuck hook up for 3 weeks until gossip girl finds out and creates an eblast and Nate finds out.
2 She Was Assaulted By Chuck
In the pilot episode, Chuck tried to hook up with Jenny, even though she was just fourteen years old at a time. He lured her to somewhere private so "they could talk." She actually thought he really just wanted to talk and was visibly uncomfortable with him kissing her.
| Serena van der Woodsen | |
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| Romances: | Dan Humphrey (Husband) Nate Archibald (Ex-boyfriend) Aaron Rose (Ex-boyfriend) Gabriel Edwards (Ex-boyfriend) Carter Baizen (Ex-boyfriend) Ben Donovan (Ex-boyfriend) Steven Spence (Ex-boyfriend) Tripp van der Bilt (Affair) Colin Forrester (Fling) Max Harding (Kissed) |
Serena Celia van der Woodsen is the Main protagonist character in the Gossip Girl novel series and in its TV adaptation, in which she is portrayed by Blake Lively. Serena is featured on the blog of the series' mysterious narrator, "Gossip Girl".
Dan and Serena get back together, but eventually break up again after they get stuck in an elevator. Serena starts dating an artist, Aaron Rose, who it turns out is the son of Blair's new stepdad, Cyrus. After things with Aaron end, she gets back with Dan.
Bart reveals that he faked his death to save Chuck and Lily, and has been hiding from everyone for the past three years. The car crash actually happened, and that it was ordered by one of Bart's enemies.
After having yet another public fight with Dan (oh those two!), Blair finally relented and opened the envelope. And the father is... Prince Louis! Much to Blair's surprise, Louis is absolutely thrilled and says he's always wanted to be a father and lied to the press about it to protect her.
During the first and second seasons, Georgina played a minor role but she returned for longer periods for seasons three through six. During season four she gives birth to her son, Milo Humphrey, and marries Philip Becker.
Serena goes to Yale at the end of the series. Similar to the television adaptation, she dates a variety of different boys, including Nate, whom she lost her virginity to.
In the season five finale The Return of the Ring, Blair chooses to be with Chuck and they make a pact to ensure they end up together. In the series finale New York, I Love You XOXO, the two get married. In the time jump, they have bought a townhouse in the city together and have a son, Henry Bass.
Who inspired Serena van der Woodsen?
The series, based on a book, is so gripping because its characters are based on real people who ran in elite New York social circles. Serena van der Woodsen, in particular, was inspired by one of New York's famous socialites. Her name is Hadley Nagel.
Meanwhile, Jenny goes to Chuck's hotel to hang out with Nate but instead finds a sad Chuck drowning his sorrows by getting drunk and Jenny joins him as she is also depressed and has hit rock bottom. Eventually, the two have sex and Jenny finally loses her virginity.
However, Nate is uninterested and rejects her advances. Consequently, Jenny sleeps with Nate's best friend, Chuck Bass before being banished from Manhattan by Blair Waldorf.
| "The Wrong Goodbye" | |
|---|---|
| Gossip Girl episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 23 |
| Directed by | Patrick Norris |
| Written by | Joshua Safran |
Dan Humphrey was revealed to be Gossip Girl
The finale of Gossip Girl finally showed who was revealing the secrets of our favorite characters. Dan revealed in a Gossip Girl post publicly that he has been the writer all along.
Gossip Girl's ratings and viewership were declining in its final seasons. Despite its massive success in its peak years, reports suggest that Gossip Girl wasn't performing as well in its later seasons — which, according to CBR.com, likely contributed to the decision to end the show in 2012.
Nate then renews his relationship with Blair and they become a couple again (Remains of the J). In Seder Anything, Nate is asked to be Tripp's best man in his wedding to Maureen van der Bilt.
The show jumps forward to reveal that Serena is getting married to Dan. Yes, Dan finally wins the woman of his dreams. Played by Blake Lively (instead of Jennifer Lawrence), Serena and Dan's wedding comprises the busy final minutes of the show. Serena wears a golden-topped frock for the occasion.
Nobody said this was a love story between a nice boy and girl. But they are well suited. In the end, Serena saw Dan as someone she could respect because he gained control of a world she never could, and he made her into a god. They make perfect sense in a dark, twisted sort of way.
In the series finale New York, I Love You XOXO time jump, Rufus is dating Lisa Loeb and is friendly with Lily. He is present when Dan marries Serena.
Who did Lily end up with in Gossip Girl?
In the season finale The Goodbye Gossip Girl, Rufus and Lily make up and he proposes to her. She accepts.
