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Gossip Girl ended with an infamous reveal—and it haunts everyone to this day. Seriously, what happened? Does this ending work at all? Watch this video and figure out what’s so scandalous about Gossip Girl’s ending and the show’s surprisingly enduring legacy.

TRANSCRIPT Blair Waldorf: ” So I guess that means it’s all over now.” Dan Humphrey: “Yeah, Gossip Girl’s dead.” – Gossip Girl, 6×10 Gossip Girl ended by answering the mystery that had been (very loosely) hanging over the soapy teen drama’s entire run. Fans expressed everything from baffled amusement to indignant outrage upon learning that the omniscient gossip blogger aiming to take down young Upper East Side elites was in fact Dan Humphrey, the outsider Lonely Boy from Brooklyn who had befriended and romanced his way into the upper echelons of New York teen society.

Evidently, Dan created the nasty blog, which frequently attacked the woman of his dreams, Serena van der Woodsen, as a way to. show his love for her. In addition to causing many problematic plot holes, the abrupt reveal reframed Dan (the intellectual, moral, and at times judgmental member of his friend group) as kind of a sociopath.

Still, the decision to make Dan Gossip Girl did drive home the show’s central messages-like that your internet troll might be the person closest to you, and that (deep down) everybody wants to be an insider. Gossip Girl: “There will always be someone on the outside wanting to get in.” 6×10 Here’s our Take on the ending of Gossip Girl and this surprisingly enduring teen drama’s ongoing legacy.

Upper East Plot Holes The reveal of Dan as Gossip Girl bewildered fans and critics alike by essentially rewriting everything we’d seen up to that point. This revelation meant that the brainy, wise heartthrob of the group has made libel victims out of his family, the woman he says he loves, and even himself,

Rufus Humphrey: “Dan, I cannot believe you are the one responsible for all of this poison. The damage you’ve done to your friends, to your family, to your own sister!” 6×10 Starting in season one, the Gossip Girl blog added to Jenny’s unpopularity with nasty rumors about her sex life. So why exactly would Jenny’s own brother be slut-shaming her to ruin her social life? Although the finale later tried to explain away other Gossip Girl-related blows to Jenny as a benevolent plot to help her get out of New York, this still took the form of yet again publicizing her sex life.

Then there are the many, many stories dragging Serena through the mud. Despite his claims that this is all inspired by love for her, Dan’s constant public shaming damages this woman’s emotional well-being, stability, and reputation. Serena van der Woodsen: “If anyone should be mad, it should be me.” 6×10 He also directly sabotages the romantic relationship he supposedly was always after-like when he accuses himself of cheating on Serena, or when he intensifies the awkwardness of his dad getting together with Serena’s mom by putting their quasi-incestual ties on blast.

And let’s not forget the time he leaked Blair’s diary pages to damage his relationship with her, or the times he blows up his relationship with Vanessa by (again) branding himself a cheater. Co-Creator and Showrunner Stephanie Savage has insisted that Dan was always the choice for who’s behind Gossip Girl (source: TVLine ).

But more recently, the show’s producer Josh Safran has confirmed that both Serena’s brother Eric and cool kid Nate were early candidates. According to Safran, after the media caught on that Eric was probably Gossip Girl, The show’s creative team decided that—given the direction they were already taking Dan, “Lonely Boy”, made more sense as the blogger ( Vulture ).

• Dan: “All I had to compare to this world was what I’d read in books, but that gave me the idea.” 6×10 Gossip Girl tonally tended to walk the line between soapy and tongue-in-cheek, so it’s fitting that the final reveal is a little bit of both, too.
• It’s not supposed to make total sense.
• Thus, we don’t really need to worry about the fact that Dan has a text conversation blackmailing himself to bring Blair to a party, or somehow writes up a post while still standing in Blair’s wedding.

Savage said Gossip Girl’s identity wasn’t “something that we wanted viewers to be actively thinking about” during the course of the show. Still, if they did know for a long time that Dan was Gossip Girl, it’s odd that the creators didn’t feel this would have been relevant information to share with the actor who played Dan, Penn Badgley.

1. Savage told TVLine, “It was nothing that we wanted to be part of Penn Badgely’s performance as Dan.” But not only does this lead to numerous scenes where Dan reacts with genuine shock and horror to a Gossip Girl post he’s reading all by himself,
2. It also drastically changes the fundamental nature of who Badgeley’s character is,

So what does this last-minute bombshell tell us about Dan Humphrey? Dan: “I wrote my first post about me, Lonely boy, the outsider, the underdog.” 6×10 Dan Is Actually the Villain All hilarious plot holes aside, with the canon of Dan as Gossip Girl comes the realization that he’s been the villain of the entire series.

If we accept this reveal at face-value, it’s interesting to revisit the series and try to make sense of Dan’s emotional arc – what could be driving him to be this much darker character than he appeared to be all along? The narrative Dan puts forward is that he started the blog because he wanted to be close to Serena after he was accidentally invited to a party she was at.

Yet once he finally does get to be with Serena, he evidently has the impulse to brag about his conquest – like when he tells everyone he might have got her pregnant. Other posts—like when he spreads rumors that she has an STD—suggest toxic jealousy and possessiveness directed toward his dream girl.

1. So it appears that on some level Serena is a prize he wants to win, and her special importance to him is symbolic of a deeper desire : to be on the inside,
2. Over time, his obsession with belonging to her world seems to take precedence over actually being with Serena herself.
3. Dan: “Membership in this community was so elite, you couldn’t even buy your way in.

It was a birthright. A birthright I didn’t have, and my greatest achievements would never earn me.” 6×10 Meanwhile, he also resents Serena for the way her extreme privilege has insulated her, in ways that his merely upper-middle-class level of wealth has not.

Dan: “Have you ever wanted something so badly, but you just know you’re not going to get it? Of course you don’t.” 6×10 There’s a streak of bitterness running through his Gossip Girl posts, which can be explained by his repeatedly watching his friends enjoy unfair privileges that he doesn’t get, like when Serena avoids serious punishment for throwing a pool party on school grounds or when Nate beats out Dan for the Dartmouth Ivy League usher position, without trying at all.

Over the course of the series, Dan is repeatedly disappointed that Serena’s ultimate allegiance is to her world over him. And at times, he appears to lose respect for her entirely. Dan: “It has always been your world and you’ve never let me forget it. I’ve always been a visitor.

1. The poor kid from Brooklyn who you’ve never seen as an equal to you.” 6×8 Eventually, jaded and tired of feeling like he’s still not enough for Serena and still not fully accepted by the group, he publishes scathing exposés he’s secretly been writing about them, no longer hiding behind the blog.
2. He stoops to what he perceives to be the Upper East Siders’ level, thinking that being as mean as them will finally make them accept him.

Along the way, in addition to venting his frustrations, the Gossip Girl blog has also been a tool for him to figure out what kind of writer he wants to be. There are even times when we can spot him bringing in his more high-brow literary sensibilities in the Gossip Girl voiceover.

But ultimately it’s by transforming into a ruthless, exploitative, sensationalist gossip writer that Dan eventually does come to belong in Serena’s world. Dan: “If I wasn’t born into this world, maybe I could write myself into it.” 6×10 Through his pursuit of literary and social success at all costs, this frequent critic of his friends’ superficiality evolves into the most hungry, image-obsessed of all.

And in the end, he’s rewarded with the acceptance he always craved—he just had to entirely change who he was, and bury his idealistic former self, in order to get it. Serena: “You were supposed to be different.” Dan: “I used to be. Got me nowhere. So now I’m the same.” 6×8 Arguably, the final reveal even villainizes the outsider, essentially for being one—sending the message that not belonging was Dan’s original sin, requiring him to undertake the ugly business of pushing his way into a society that doesn’t want him.

Blair: “Chuck is one of us, whereas Dan despite his years of trying, never will be.” 6×10 This shrewd observer-turned-conformist decided to base his entire life and identity on the fundamental principle underlying Serena’s world: that you’re no one unless you’re talked about. Dan: “I might have been a joke, but at least people were talking about me.” 6×10 Glossy Ending to a Glossy Show The other major message of the finale is that however many bad things these rich kids have done, and however many traumas they put each other through, everything will always work out for them.

Chuck Bass: “You and I come from different worlds. In my world, if I’m suspended or expelled, a wing is donated in the Bass name.” Dan: ” That sounds like quite a world.” 1×12 What makes Gossip Girl an even guiltier pleasure than previous soapy teen dramas about rich kids is its lack of real consequences for its characters’ behavior.

• In Beverly Hills 90210, Donna’s chances of graduating are threatened when she drinks at prom.
• In The O.C.
• Marissa dies in a car crash.
• But in Gossip Girl, no one dies (at least, no one you’re supposed to care about).
• And no one is held accountable for objectively terrible behavior.
• Chuck Bass—the show’s original villain, turned central love-interest, gets redemption and his dream girl Blair Waldorf, even though he once sold her to his Uncle for a hotel business and sleeps with her enemy.

It’s even okay if you run a nasty years-long gossip blog about your best friends, as long as you explain why you did it. Serena: “Dan was as hard on himself as he was on any of us. And he wouldn’t have had anything to post if everyone hadn’t been sending in tips.” 6×10 All of Gossip Girl ‘s snark about its characters’ bad behavior gave way to a conventional romantic pairing-off that delivered audience wish-fulfillment wrapped up with a bow.

In the retrospective special the CW ran right before the finale aired, Showrunner Stephanie Savage likened watching Gossip Girl to reading a glossy magazine—it’s a fun glimpse into the glittering world of the monied elite. And what viewers loved the most about Gossip Girl was the over-the-top glamour it showcased.

The show premiered the same year as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, in the midst of the reality and semi-scripted TV boom of the 2000s, when audiences were becoming ever-more captivated by privileged glimpses into the so-called “real lives” of the rich and famous.

1. Gossip Girl offered the 18 to 34 demographic a rose-tinted, aspirational Sex In the City -style Manhattan, only it populated with horny teenagers instead of horny 30-somethings.
2. It was the perfect intersection of teen soap, Golden Age of Television character development, and reality TV escapism.
3. Blair: “Here’s my advice.

Have a little faith, and if that doesn’t work, have a lot of mimosas.” 4×12 It was also one of the first teen dramas to use the internet in the central premise of the show—something Pretty Little Liars would later mimic through its plot centered around blackmailing texts.

And Gossip Girl was the jumping-off point for numerous series to come focusing on the sensational lives and supposed problems of rich people, including Turkish, Thai, Mexican, and Indonesian versions of Gossip Girl ; the Bravo reality show NYC Prep and a 2021 HBO Max reboot of the show ( Deadline ).

After a slew of more realistic, heavy, or dark teen shows, Gossip Girl’s good old-fashioned pulpy escapism may continue to appeal. It remains to be seen how the show’s sensational fantasy of the wealthy elite will fit with today’s more critical social discourse.

Who is Gossip Girl and why

8 Times The Identity Of Gossip Girl Made Zero Sense From 2007 to 2012, Gossip Girl served up in its time, but one that’s especially difficult to get past is the true identity of Gossip Girl revealed in the series finale. Dan Humphrey is Gossip Girl. This is not a spoiler, the series ended nine years ago. But back to Dan, I vividly remember my reaction to the revelation when it happened. First came the, ‘Wow!’ then the ‘But wait, huh?’. Rewatching the series’ six seasons reveals some major plot holes when it comes to Dan being Gossip Girl all along. Like seriously, this dude not only tried to ruin his friends’ and family’s lives, but he’s also repeatedly sabotaged his own.

1. It makes sense that Dan wasn’t actually intended to be Gossip Girl until later seasons: in fact, the writers had a different character in mind.
2. Writer and executive producer, Joshua Safran, “We worked hard to kind of lay in tiny seeds about it being Eric, and then the NY Post wrote an article saying that Gossip Girl was Eric so we were like, ‘We gotta scratch that,'” Safran revealed.

After this change, Nate was then floated as an option. “One of the writers realised that Nate had never sent a tip into Gossip Girl, which is true at least through the end of season five. Nate never sent in a tip in through all of those episodes, which is when we’re like, ‘Oh, well then he’s Gossip Girl.'” Once Safran departed the series, the writers then pivoted to Dan being a more surprising candidate for Gossip Girl.

Does Serena know Dan is Gossip Girl?

Season Six – In Monstrous Ball, Dan supports Serena after she is dumped by Steven Spence, After their sex tape is shown at the debutante ball, Dan and Serena share a friendly evening together. In Where the Vile Things Are, the two begin hanging out again and even go to the same bar that they went on their first date. They plan to throw a Thanksgiving dinner together in It’s Really Complicated, but things take a turn for the worst when Dan chooses to release a scathing serial article on Serena. He explains that he did so to make sure she understands that he isn’t scared of her and doesn’t want to be seen as less than her.

1. Hurt, Serena breaks up with him and plans to move to Los Angeles.
2. In The Revengers, Dan attempts to give her the last chapter of his serial series to convince her to stay in Manhattan.
3. She reads it in the series finale, New York, I Love You XOXO, and learns that Dan was Gossip Girl all along.
4. After they talk and he explains everything to her, she realizes what Dan did was truly write a love letter to them all about friendship and where they don’t want to end up.

In the time jump, Dan and Serena marry in front of their friends and family.

Is Gossip Girl Jenny or Dan?

Season 6 – 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,

Did Dan like Blair or Serena?

Ranking the romances of Gossip Girl from best to worst Bear Grylls // Digital Spy 10. Dan & Serena Bear Grylls // Digital Spy The Gossip Girl finale has a lot to answer for. It was pretty much a fiasco from beginning to end, but probably the worst sin of all was how it turned Dan and Serena’s once pretty adorable on-off romance into the creepiest thing ever.

The revelation that Gossip Girl was actually Dan all along probably seemed like a great “OMG!” moment in the writers’ heads, but once your brain starts doing backwards calculations you’re like “Wait, what about all those times we saw Dan text Gossip Girl? What about that time Gossip Girl slut-shamed Dan’s sister? IS DAN LITERALLY INSANE?” Dan had been increasingly terrible for about three seasons before this point, treating Serena like crap despite her supposedly being the girl of his dreams.

But after it turns out Dan’s also been anonymously stalking and humiliating Serena for years under the guise of GG, she doesn’t run a mile and file a restraining order. Oh no. She marries him. Because nothing says ‘I love you’ like an anonymous poison pen blog! In conclusion, Dan and Serena are the worst.9. Bear Grylls // Digital Spy We could write a whole essay about why Nate and Vanessa made no sense as a couple, but who would even care enough to read it? Nobody was really shipping Nanessa (?) – their romance just kept on coming back through the first three seasons, even though their scenes together were always pretty flat. Bear Grylls // Digital Spy Is anyone else still kind of bitter that Rufus and Lily didn’t end up together? They were basically an adult version of Dan and Serena (minus the creepy finale), but there was a real spark between them, even though Lily’s preference for douchey millionaires was always going to make it impossible for her to choose Rufus in the end. Bear Grylls // Digital Spy Given the way we were introduced to this couple – with Nate having just cheated on Blair with Serena – it was always going to be tough for them to recover, especially because neither of them really seemed all that into the other.

When you get together in junior high, chances are you’re going to grow out of each other before you graduate high school. Even when Nair (Blate?) briefly got back together late in season two, it just felt like a doomed attempt to cling onto the past, especially because they were both in love with each other’s best friends.

Their friendship remained cute and consistent long after their romance ended, though, which earns them a respectable seventh spot.6. Serena & Carter Bear Grylls // Digital Spy Okay, admittedly our view of Carter Baizen might be skewed by Sebastian Stan’s role in the Captain America movies, because it’s hard not to ship anybody with Bucky Barnes. Serena and Carter were never going to be a long-term thing, what with him being kind of a shady drifter and her having at least vague aspirations to do something with her life, but they were hella fun together and Stan had more chemistry with Blake Lively than almost any of Serena’s other beaus.

Had the finale ended with Carter rocking up to whisk Serena away from her ill-advised wedding, The Graduate style, we would have been more than okay with that.5. Dan & Vanessa Bear Grylls // Digital Spy From the moment Vanessa showed up in Brooklyn wearing her unresolved feelings for long-time BFF Dan on her sleeve, it was clear they were going to hook up eventually.

What was surprising was just how well they worked together as a couple, once that threesome with Hilary Duff forced them both to acknowledge the obvious. Basically every single good thing that ever happened in Dan’s career was because of Vanessa, and she was the only person who could relate to him creatively – even though she was by all accounts a way better writer.

1. Dan was so terrible by the show’s end that it was hard to ship him with anyone other than loneliness, but had Vanessa still been around she might have smacked some sense into him.
2. Or at least inspired him to do something better with his time than be Gossip Girl.4.
3. Dan & Blair Bear Grylls // Digital Spy We could have had it all, guys.

Remember the very first time Dan and Blair shared a scene, in season one’s ‘Bad News Blair’ (above), and it was unexpected and lovely and a totally authentic moment of connection between two characters you’d never expect to connect? Their sparky frenemies dynamic remained one of the best things about the show for a long time, and as the Chuck/Blair relationship became increasingly toxic in seasons three and four, it began to look like Dair might end up being the true love story of Gossip Girl.

But then Something weird happened. We’ll never know exactly what went down in the writers room midway through season five, but Dan transformed from a sweet guy into a sociopath, sabotaging Blair’s wedding and isolating her from everyone who wasn’t him. Eventually the whole relationship was later retconned into an afterthought, with Dan claiming he’d only ever wanted Blair because he was afraid of his love for Serena.

Or something. We’d given up caring by this point, and seemingly so had the writers. RIP, Dair.3. Eleanor & Cyrus Bear Grylls // Digital Spy THE BEST. Technically Eleanor and Cyrus should be number one, because they’re the only genuinely flaw-free couple in the Gossip Girl universe, but their screen time is a little too limited to bag the top spot.

Eleanor was a pretty strong contender for world’s worst mother in the first season, but under Cyrus’s adorable influence she became warmer and more supportive towards Blair, while Cyrus himself was basically the perfect stepfather. These two are proof that real love is possible on the Upper East Side.2.

Chuck & Blair Bear Grylls // Digital Spy Oh, Chair. So divisive. So inconsistently written. So undeniably hot together. Had Gossip Girl only lasted two seasons, these two would be number one with a bullet – Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick’s chemistry was so off-the-charts that it altered the whole course of the show, right from that first hookup in the back of Chuck’s limo.

• The relationship became, for better or worse, the centre of Gossip Girl for pretty much its entire run, but a couple of seriously questionable storytelling choices in seasons three and four made their epic romance deeply uncomfortable to watch.
• Yes, we’re talking about the time Chuck pimped out Blair to his uncle, and that other time he attacked her.

Clearly realising that they’d gone a little overboard with all the dysfunction, the writers spent the next two seasons trying to rehabilitate Chair. They’re toxic as hell, but that’s par for the course in Gossip Girl, and Chuck’s awful behaviour was at least openly acknowledged in the show, so that he had to genuinely change in order to win Blair back.

And let’s face it – that chemistry alone has to put them close to the top spot.1. Serena & Nate Bear Grylls // Digital Spy If Serena wasn’t going to end the show single (which she probably should have), her best endgame option by far would have been Nate. These two had a big hand in defining the tone of Gossip Girl – it was their scandalous hookup at the Shepard wedding that started it all – and they always made sense together because they’re essentially the same person: effortlessly gorgeous, insanely loyal social butterflies with a rebellious streak.

Season three was a golden age for GG romances in that everybody was with their best match (Chuck/Blair, Dan/Vanessa and Nate/Serena) and the way Serena and Nate drifted apart afterwards never really added up. Okay, so they weren’t the show’s most compelling pairing, but that relative lack of drama was a breath of fresh air compared to every other messy romance on this list.

Did Dan really love Serena?

Season 5 – The fifth season opens with Dan in the Hamptons. He appears upset when he receives Blair’s invitation for her royal wedding. Dan soon finds out that someone has published his book, Inside, Meanwhile, Blair, back from her cruise and is currently in Manhattan again, is frustrated with Louis’ domineering mother, who feels the need to have complete control over the wedding.

Dan finds out that Vanessa has published his book without his permission and tries to undo the damage, especially after Vanity Fair want to publish a part about Dan and Blair. Desperate, Dan turns to Louis for some help, hoping the prince could put some royal weight on it and manage to cancel the publishing.

Louis informs him that he promised earlier to Blair that he’s going to take her to the Royal consulate, so he calls her and tells her that he would not be able to make it, much to Blair’s disappointment. Soon after, Blair then arrives at Dan’s loft and tells him that despite they haven’t spoken since the holidays, she needs a friend to talk to and believes that he is the only one that will truly listen.

• She announces that she plans to break it off with Louis and asks him about his trip to the Hamptons, to which he responds to staying at CeCe’s house.
• She asks him to take her there and Dan tells her he will be there for her for whatever she needs.
• He decides to conceal the real reason why Louis couldn’t make it, and just as they were about to make a move, Louis comes enters the loft.

Blair assumes that he was following her and starts reprimanding him, until Dan’s conscience gets the better of him and reveals that Louis was only helping him with his book issue. Blair soon becomes furious with Dan as he did not tell her the real reason why Louis could not make it and departs with Louis, arm-in-arm, leaving Dan alone and heartbroken.

• And at the end of the episode it’s been revealed that Blair is the one pregnant.
• Over the next few episodes, Blair is found having trouble keeping the pregnancy a secret and begins having morning sickness.
• Things get more difficult when Louis’s sister, Princess Beatrice, comes to town.
• When she hears Blair’s morning sickness in the bathroom, she begins to assume that Blair has gone back to being bulimic.

She decides to invite Blair to a feast to be sure. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, Dan is still trying to stop the publishing of his book, in order to save the relationship he has built with his closest friends and family. He calls Serena on the phone and asks her how she went through Lily’s bank account so that he can go to Vanessa’s bank and look for the publisher, but she tells him that it was all Chuck’s doing, driving him to go searching for Chuck.

1. To his horror, he finds Chuck getting beat up by men.
2. He attempts to save Chuck, when he reveals that the men were not real criminals and he paid them to hurt him, much to Dan’s astonishment.
3. This leads Dan to search for Blair and inform her about Chuck’s recent dilemma.
4. Meanwhile, at the feast, Blair begins to feel sick and searches for an excuse to run to the bathroom without arising suspicion.

She begins to silently pray to God for a way out, and once she finishes, she sees Dan at the front of the door. Blair rushes to his side and drags him to the toilet and orders him to guard the door. Dan announces that Chuck is getting himself into trouble again, but Blair brushes it off, stating that he’s merely doing it to get her attention.

Once Dan hears Blair throw up, he begins to get worried and, like Beatrice, assumes that she has gone back to her previous bulimic ways. He voices out his concern and Blair leaves the washroom stall, stating that she was not bulimic, but instead pregnant. However, Beatrice walks into the bathroom just as Blair reveals her pregnancy to Dan.

The both of them are shocked, but agree to keep it a secret. Afterwards, Blair arrives at Dan’s loft once again, revealing to him that she is uncertain who the father of her unborn child is. He encourages her to take a test, but she refuses, stating that she’ll lose everything if Chuck is the actual father.

Dan responds that she will still have him, causing Blair to cry and rest her head on Dan’s shoulder. He then kisses her forehead. However, Blair, being her usual self, still tries to avoid taking the test, but after much persuasion from Dan, she eventually does, and announces that the father is Louis.

She then tells Louis that she’s pregnant, much to his elation. Soon afterwards, Serena, Nate, Chuck, Louis’s mother, Eleanor and Cyrus all know about Blair’s pregnancy, and she decides not to keep anymore secrets regarding her unborn child. Dan decides that it is time for him to tell Blair about his feelings for her, engaged or not, when she comes and visits him at his loft, feeling heavy-hearted and dejected.

She tells him that she wishes to be happy again, but has forgotten how to be. After a very emotional phone call with Chuck, Blair enters Dan’s living room heartbroken, looking devastated and emotionally drained. This drives Dan to attempt and bring Chuck and Blair together again, determined to bring joy back into Blair’s life.

He decides to keep his feelings for Blair quiet and bottled up, only letting Serena know how he feels about her. Dan leads both Chuck and Blair individually into an enclosed candlelight room. Once they both come face-to-face, Dan closes the door and shows himself out, leaving them both alone.

1. Then, he engages in a discussion with Serena, telling her that all he wants is for Blair to be happy.
2. Serena to tells him that he’s one of the good guys, due to his selflessness regarding Blair’s happiness.
3. While Blair and Chuck are whisking away in a limo, planning on running away together and raising Blair’s unborn baby as Chuck’s child, they both end up in a serious, life-threatening car accident when paparazzi tail them continuously after Charlie sends Gossip Girl a blast, informing her on Chuck and Blair’s whereabouts.

The accident causes Serena, who is alongside Nate and Dan, to be more furious at Gossip Girl than ever before, and blames her entirely for the accident caused. Dan monotonously states that she didn’t jump on one of the motorcycles and chase Chuck and Blair down the road, but Serena angrily responds that the accident is merely the result of all the amount of damage that Gossip Girl has caused throughout the years.

• Nate agrees, and he Serena begin planning on taking Gossip Girl down for good, to avenge Chuck and Blair, as Dan anxiously waits for news on Blair.
• In the next episode, Blair learns that she lost the baby in the accident, much to her depression and despair, and she immediately bursts into tears when the news reaches her.

She becomes even more terrified when Serena tells her that Chuck is in serious danger, due to losing a large amount of blood. This drives her to make a secret deal with God, promising Him that if He saves Chuck’s life, she would marry Louis and not go back to being with Chuck.

Once she makes the promise, the nurse informs her that Chuck is asking for her. She decides that this means that God has honored their promise, and chooses to further her relationship with Louis, deciding against pursuing her relationship with Chuck. She informs Dan about her deal and tells him to keep it a secret, to which he agrees.

Soon, only Dan and Serena know about Blair’s promise. She begins avoiding Chuck and Louis, who collaborate to find out what was going on with Blair, and find pictures of Dan and Blair together in New York, learning that the only man she’s not avoiding is Dan.

When she tells him that she needs him, and he responds that he has her, once again confirming that he will be there for her during the hard times. When Dan walks in on Blair in her wedding dress, he tells her that she looks perfect, making her cry. She says that she can no longer get married in the dress, as now all she sees is everything she’s lost.

Dan comforts her and tells her that she should change her mind about marrying Louis, but she insists on pursuing the wedding, stating she’s committed to him. They both falsely assume that she’s having an affair with Dan, to which she immediately denies.

1. Soon later, she finds Louis’s wedding vows, and is pleasantly stunned with how accurately he describes her and how much love the vows display.
2. She tells Serena that she feels as if Louis had “peered into her soul,” and now is happy with the decision she had made, believing that Louis is the one for her.

However, unknown to Blair, Dan was the one who wrote the vows, after Louis asked him to. On her wedding day, Blair and Chuck confront each other once again, and Blair declares that she does indeed love him, but cannot be with him. She leaves the room to attend the ceremony, leaving Chuck alone in the room.

Cyrus and Harold both give Blair away, and Dan and Serena walk down the aisle together. However, it appears that someone taped Chuck and Blair’s moment, when Blair was professing her love for Chuck to him. It sends Blair running down the aisle and causes her to blame Chuck, assuming he was the one who sent the blast to Gossip Girl.

Soon, she returns to the altar, and she and Louis continue the wedding. After Louis and Blair say their vows and take each other as man and wife, Serena tells Dan that she loves him, that she always had and she always will, just before Louis and Blair take their first dance as a married couple.

As Blair tells Louis that she’s very thankful for giving her a princess title and especially grateful that he gave her another chance, he coldly responds that their wedding was all for show and there is nothing but a contract between them. He tells her that when they’re alone, they’ll become like strangers to each other.

After the wedding, Dan is certain he has lost Blair to Louis but soon finds out it is a sham wedding when Blair asks him for help to get out of the country and file for a divorce. Taking her to the airport he realizes just how much she needs to get out of this situation and lies to Serena about her whereabouts, this leaves him with a problem when he is discovered with Blair later on.

Soon afterwards, Blair arrives from her honeymoon to Manhattan on Valentine’s Day, she tries to set Dan and Serena up once again. However, when Blair notices the lack of interest Dan has in pursuing his old relationship with Serena. She tells him that she attempted to get Dan and Serena back together because she wants Dan to be happy.

Blair asks him what it is that would make him happy, and he responds by kissing her, leaving Blair stunned. She, however, does not stop him and instead slowly begins to reciprocate to the kiss. Unfortunately, Serena, alongside Georgina, accidentally intrudes on Dan and Blair.

Georgina manages to snap a picture of Dan and Blair’s kiss and soon runs away from the scene, driving Dan to chase after her, leaving Blair and stunned and angered Serena alone together. Blair continues to deny having any feelings for Dan during and after the party to both Dan and Serena. With Serena and Blair’s friendship on shaky grounds Dorota decides to lock them in the dining room up for their own good.

Blair decides to prove to Serena by spending a whole day with Dan that her feelings are platonic. Unfortunately, she reciprocates another kiss from Dan while Serena accidentally intrudes on them. Serena dictates that Blair is always in denial when it comes to matters of the heart.

During a re-enactment of a scene from the Inside novel, Blair realizes that Dan loves her for her and has so for some time. Putting aside her insecurities she admits to both Serena and Dan that she too has feelings for Dan. Serena then gives Blair her blessing, stating that she does not want to be an obstacle in Dan and Blair’s relationship.

Soon afterwards, Blair pecks a kiss from Dan and heads off to support Serena with her last moments with CeCe. In “The Princess Dowry” Dan walks in on Blair discussing what could be a potential way out of her prenup on the phone with Cyrus and another lawyer from his firm.

1. Blair shares the details and after saying that she “wouldn’t have to wait a year for,
2. Anything” she and Dan exchange smiles.
3. At CeCe’s wake, Chuck outs Dan via Gossip Girl as the sender of the video that was fatal to Blair’s marriage.
4. At first, she thinks that it’s just a game Chuck is playing and she is unwilling to participate, however, when she sees the guilty looks on Dan’s face she realizes that it’s the truth.

She is mad at him, but forgives him after he tells her that his only reason for sending the video was that he couldn’t stand to see Blair so unhappy. Meanwhile, Blair makes a deal with Estee to help her get out of her marriage dowry if there will be no more public mention of it in the media, including Gossip Girl.

However, at this time Georgina, who has stolen Dan’s phone, teams up with Chuck and sends Gossip Girl a message from Dan’s phone uploading the photo of the Valentine’s Day kiss, thus ruining Blair’s chances of not having to pay the dowry. Dorota shows Blair the blast and she confronts Dan who is confronting Georgina.

The latter admits to having been Gossip Girl and it turns out that the deal with Estee was also one of her schemes. Dan goes to confront Chuck, who, after finding out that the blast will bankrupt Blair’s family, is regretful, however, he reveals that he has outed Dan for the bad guy he has been and he question whether their friendship was just an act.

Blair walks over to them and Chuck tells Dan to be honest and confess that he has been trying to keep him and Blair apart, which Dan does. He apologizes to Blair and leaves. Chuck says that wants Blair and him to try again because all the obstacles that were in their relationship’s way are seemingly gone, but Blair tells him that although she loves him, she is not “in love” with him anymore.

Later, Georgina visits Blair and promises to get her rid of her dowry in exchange for Blair’s support. Blair agrees to this. In the episode’s last scene, Blair goes to Brooklyn. Dan isn’t expecting her, as he is assuming she got back together with Chuck.

• Blair tells him that she isn’t there to tell him off and she isn’t with Chuck.
• Dan cracks a joke that clearly expresses his disbelief and surprise at Blair choosing him over the “love of her life,” Chuck.
• She tells him that she told Chuck that he doesn’t have her heart anymore as it now belongs to someone else.

They kiss and rest their foreheads against each other’s. Blair calls him by his first name which amuses Dan and he asks her to “say it again” and they start kissing passionately. The new couple make a slow and rocky debut on the Upper East side and are faced with numerous challenges including their relations in the bedroom, Blair’s lingering feelings for Chuck, and Serena’s distaste for their relationship.

• When Gossip Girl intentionally exposes Blair’s secrets on Gossip Girl, Dan comes to terms with Blair’s feelings for Chuck, as well as Serena’s attempts to sabotage their relationship.
• In the finale, Dan, having been left by Blair for Chuck, teams up with Georgina in order to write his follow up to “Inside”.

This time, however, he pledges to write the novel “he should have written from the beginning.” Georgina, with her own score to settle with the Upper East side, is more than happy to help.

Why do Lily and Rufus kiss in the finale?

End of Season 6 concerning Rufus and Lily | Fandom Are Lily and Rufus back together at the end of Season 6? Im not sure because their kissing each other but both go to other persons after that ( Lily to William and Rufus to some random girl.) (edited by A Fandom user) No.

Who did Rufus end up with?

Season Four – In Belles de Jour, Rufus finds out that he has a grandson, Milo Humphrey, who was fathered by Dan and carried by Georgina. However, Rufus refuses to believe that Milo is biologically Dan’s and eventually proves it when he realizes the blood types don’t match up ( Double Identity ).

In The Undergraduates, he reveals this to Dan, who is forced to relinquish Milo when Georgina returns and explains the truth. Meanwhile, Chuck is preparing to return to the city with his new girlfriend, Eva Coupeau, and Rufus is not pleased about his return due to what he did to Jenny. He attempts to sabotage the introduction, but then chooses to give Chuck and Eva a chance.

In War at the Roses, Rufus and Lily are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary; but Rufus is sad Jenny can’t attend, as she was banned by Blair after sleeping with Chuck. As a result, Eric and Dan scheme to bring her back by ruining Blair’s birthday party but fail, and Rufus is disappointed that his son is morphing into an Upper East Side kid.

• However, he is pleasantly surprised when Dan pulls off a homemade anniversary surprise for them.
• In Empire of the Son, Rufus supports Lily when she turns herself in for perjury and after she’s sentenced to house arrest in The Kids Stay in the Picture,
• In order to cheer her up, Rufus, Serena and Eric work together to move the annual Pink Party to the VDW penthouse.

However, things take a turn for the worse when everyone is not happy about the move and takes the opportunity to shun Lily. To end the humiliation, Lily has the police escort everyone out. She tells Rufus she’s thankful for what he did but all she wants now is to just have him around for company ( Petty in Pink ).

Why Nate is Gossip Girl?

Nate’s guilt over sleeping with Serena would’ve been the main reason why Nate became Gossip Girl, according to Gossip Girl show-runner Joshua Safran. Joshua Safran, creator of the upcoming Gossip Girl reboot, revealed that Nate Archibald was originally supposed to be Gossip Girl. Safran was a writer and executive producer on the original Gossip Girl series, which ran for six seasons from 2007 to 2012.

1. The show, based on a series of novels of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar, followed the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite through the lens of the mysterious blogger Gossip Girl.
2. The main characters in the original Gossip Girl series were Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Serena Van Der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley.) Nate was Dan’s polar opposite in many ways.

Dan was poor by Upper East Side standards while Nate was born into wealth and privilege, serving as the prince to Dan’s pauper. Both Dan and Nate spent the series trying to forge their own identities outside of the roles they were born into status wise.

Nate spent time trying to establish his own career after his father was sent to prison and even had a whole arc where he tried to find out who Gossip Girl was and take her down. It wasn’t until the Gossip Girl series finale, “New York I Love You, XOXO,” the the show finally revealed that “Lonely Boy” Dan Humphrey from Brooklyn had been Gossip Girl all along.

Joshua Safran, who is also the showrunner for the Gossip Girl reboot, revealed that plans were quite different when he was working on the original series. In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Safran revealed that Nate Archibald was originally supposed to be Gossip Girl.

Read what Safran had to say about the matter below. “I t was Nate. It was Nate until the day I left. I think we all came to the conclusion that it might be Nate by the end of Season 4, and then we spent Season 5 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. 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,” Safran has mentioned in previous interviews that he always wanted Gossip Girl to be Nate. He also wisely noted, “It would have been great to never reveal it.” Safran’s newest statement on the great Gossip Girl controversy does add some interesting context in terms of how the show would’ve explained Nate’s drive for becoming Gossip Girl.

• Nate’s guilt over sleeping with Serena when he was dating Blair is an interesting motivation towards becoming New York’s most infamous blogger.
• In many ways Nate’s character arc over the seasons went in the opposite direction of Dan’s.
• So while Nate being Gossip Girl would’ve been an interesting twist, it really would’ve detracted from the character growth he experienced over the show’s six seasons as he learned how to be his own man outside of his family’s broken prestige.

Dan’s motivations did make more sense for his character arc leaning towards his secret identity as Gossip Girl. He was still always treated with an air of suspicion as the outsider looking in due to his lower social status by Gossip Girl standards, even after becoming close with Chuck and Nate, and dating Serena and Blair at different times in the series.

The characters were understandably mad when they discovered that Dan had been pulling the strings behind Gossip Girl and it still remains a controversial reveal with Gossip Girl fans to this day.As Safran noted, it likely would’ve been better overall if the show had kept Gossip Girl’s identity a secret.

Regardless, the original Gossip Girl series continues to be a classic guilty pleasure show nine years after the series finale. The new reboot certainly has big scandalous shoes to fill. Next: Gossip Girl: Why Kristen Bell Narrates The Reboot (Despite Dan Reveal) Source: The Daily Beast

Is Georgina actually Gossip Girl?

Georgina Sparks was not only a ruthlessly manipulative Upper East Side socialite, but she was also once the calculating puppeteer behind Gossip Girl. While the identity of Gossip Girl’s titular blogger remained unknown for most of the show, it was revealed that Georgina Sparks once briefly assumed the omniscient role. Based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s novel series, Gossip Girl was a six-season teen drama that defined the then-newly-launched network, The CW.

• Although its viewership was not entirely record-breaking, the show successfully carved its place in pop culture, spawning a following focused on its sense of fashion and popularization of social media networking.
• Gossip Girl’s influence continued long after its series finale; in fact, it gave birth to a standalone sequel that featured characters from the original show, including notorious troublemaker Georgina Sparks.

Before her dramatic return in the Gossip Girl reboot, Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) returned to re-establish her status in and control over the Upper East Side. Although she only scarcely appeared during the first few seasons, her presence would often mean that danger was imminent, stirring chaos and manipulating the central friend group of the show.

Which Gossip Girl is Blair in?

Season 1 – Blair as she appears in the TV adaptation, portrayed by Leighton Meester. In Season 1 of Gossip Girl, Blair is introduced as the Upper East Side’s beautiful and popular queen bee, She is the daughter of Eleanor Waldorf, a famous fashion designer. She is dating Nate Archibald, and is best friends with Serena van der Woodsen.

She also finds a close companion in Nate’s best friend and her childhood friend Chuck Bass, who becomes a partner for her schemes. When Serena returns home from boarding school, Blair learns from Nate that he lost his virginity to a drunken Serena over a year ago. Blair retaliates by publicly revealing Serena’s connection to a rehab hospital.

She then learns that the actual patient is Serena’s younger brother, Eric, who had been committed after a suicide attempt. Afterward, a remorseful Blair reconciles with Serena. After learning that Nate no longer loves her, Blair sleeps with Chuck, eventually falling for him.

1. This leads to a heated affair and an eventual love triangle.
2. Her inability to choose creates much of the first season’s story line.
3. There are brief mentions of Blair’s past struggle with bulimia.
4. She also begins a brief power struggle with freshman Jenny Humphrey,
5. After she unites with Chuck and Nate in order to save Serena from the scheming Georgina Sparks, Chuck realizes that his feelings for Blair are real and suggests that they spend the summer together in Tuscany.

However, he is discouraged by his father at the last minute, and stands Blair up.

Did Chuck sleep with Jenny?

Plot – Georgina arrives at Grand Central Station, disguised in a blonde wig and sunglasses. Jenny takes a picture of Dan and Serena sleeping in the same bed and sends it to Gossip Girl, upsetting Nate when he sees it. Blair tries avoiding Chuck and the Empire State Building but soon realizes it is impossible to stay away and that they belong together.

However, at the moment she decides to go, Dorota’s water breaks and she is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, Dorota tells Blair to follow her heart and gives her her blessing. Soon afterward, Dorota and Vanya welcome their baby daughter, Anastasia, and choose Eleanor and Cyrus as the baby’s godparents.

Outside of the hospital, Blair gets to the Empire State Building too late and finds that Chuck has left. Meanwhile, Jenny goes to Chuck’s hotel to hang out with Nate but instead finds a desolate Chuck drowning his sorrows by getting drunk; Jenny joins him as she is also depressed and has hit rock bottom.

1. Eventually, the two have sex and Jenny loses her virginity.
2. Right after they have sex, Blair walks in and tells Chuck she loves him, as Jenny sneaks out from the bedroom undetected by Blair.
3. Back at the hospital, Dan and Serena discuss the events of the previous night and their “meaningless kiss”, but Nate overhears them, and in spite, decides to send Vanessa the picture, causing problems for Dan and Vanessa.

Later, Nate is seen with Serena at the restaurant in Dorota’s hospital, and he forgives her but she tells him that they should break up, or take a break for a while so she can work on herself. However, Nate is angry and hurt and tells her that he is done waiting for her.

Jenny reaches the hospital and has an emotional breakdown and is comforted by Eric, who asks her what the problem is and she confesses that she slept with Chuck. Meanwhile, Chuck and Blair are happier than ever and just as Chuck is about to ask her to marry him, Dan comes and punches him. He is confronted by Dan, and Blair realizes what happened between Chuck and Jenny.

She then proceeds to banish Jenny from New York and tells Chuck to never speak to her again. A week later, Nate apologizes to Dan for sending the picture to Vanessa and tells him that he and Serena are over and proceeds to have a threesome as he has taken Chuck’s Black Book.

Dan calls Serena immediately after, only to discover that she and Blair are on their way to Paris. Just as he is looking at tickets for Air France, Georgina walks in and tells him that she is pregnant with his son. Meanwhile, Jenny is being seen off by Rufus, Lily and Eric as she leaves for her mother’s house in Hudson,

As an intoxicated Chuck exits a bar in Prague, he is suddenly grabbed by muggers who proceed to rob him. He tells them to take him to a bank and he will give them money, but they instead pull out a box from his jacket with an engagement ring in it (showing that Chuck was going to propose to Blair).

Do Serena and Dan divorce?

Here’s What Your Favorite ‘Gossip Girl’ Characters Would Be Doing in 2017 From lifestyle sites to Waldorf Designs. August 30, 2017 may have aired its final episode in 2012, but its characters are never far from our minds. After all, you can revisit the Upper East Siders anytime you want courtesy of Netflix, and binge on their schemes and shenanigans with just the click of a button.

• One reason Gossip Girl was so successful was that its characters made a serious impact on viewers.
• While their wardrobes and lifestyles were more fantasy than reality for most of us, there was something about Blair, Chuck, Serena, Dan, Nate, Jenny, and the rest that we just couldn’t get enough of.
• We felt like we knew them, and we rooted for them from episode one to the double wedding in the finale.

(Don’t get mad for the spoiler — the show’s been off the air for years!) In celebration of Gossip Girl’s 10th anniversary, we looked into our proverbial crystal ball and imagined where the characters would be now, almost five years after they said goodbye and wandered happily into streaming syndication forever or did they? That’s one secret we’ll never tell.

Serena and Dan split up just two years after their wedding when Serena discovered Dan’s alternate Twitter account where he did nothing but subtweet her in a very obvious manner. She went to stay with Lily for a few weeks, then decided to move to Los Angeles and start a green juice company. Since then, her company has expanded all over the nation, and Serena’s little brother Eric is currently running the show. She’s moved on to matcha and created a lifestyle brand about being effortlessly beautiful and totally embracing the L.A. lifestyle. Who’s she dating now? Well, there’s a rumor she’s been seeing indie star Father John Misty, but she’s also been spotted with more than a few Hollywood producers. Oh, and she added pink ombré tips to her blonde hair. After his divorce from Serena, Dan moved back to Brooklyn to live with Rufus while writing his next book, a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel about being married to the golden girl of the Upper East Side — AKA the same book and story Dan’s been writing his whole life. With Serena gone, he was lost. What would he write about now? Who would he devote his life to? Who would he practice his negging and mansplaining on? At press time, Dan is single and trying to get on the, but no one wants to match with him considering all he can write about is the person he’s dating. Plus, everyone knows he was Gossip Girl, which kind of kills the vibe.

The Basses are perfectly happy in their fancy penthouse apartment with their son Henry and a new baby daughter named Evelyn Elizabeth, after Chuck’s late mother. Blair started breeding Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and showing them, though she refers to them as her “minions” when she gets mad at them for ruining her antique carpets. She’s also turned Waldorf Designs into a massively successful company that tons of Instagram influencers are obsessed with; they’ve got over 5 million followers and counting! Blair has recently added a children’s line so she can outfit her kids as pristinely as their parents. B and S are still BFFs, though Blair does occasionally roll her eyes at Serena’s new “L.A. lifestyle” and always throws out the crystals Serena sends in the mail. The eternally badass Chuck Bass is still doing his thing, though marriage and fatherhood have calmed his bad boy tendencies a bit. He’s pretty happy letting Blair run the show at home, and he’s embraced the whole “family man” thing. So much so that he handed over the day-to-day operations of Bass Industries over to Uncle Jack and Georgina Sparks and now spends his days as a stay-at-home dad albeit one who takes the kids to the park and to playdates in a three-piece suit wearing $1,000 cologne. Does that surprise you? Of course not — he’s Chuck Bass, after all. Oh, Nate. He’s still running his newspaper, though he’s thinking of selling it to the Huffington Post. He’s burnt out post-election, and he’s given up his dream of running for office, too. He keeps telling Chuck that if he sells the paper (and its private plane), he’s going to move to an island in Belize with Vanessa, because yep, they reconnected and are dating once again. They’ve settled out their differences now that they’re no longer entangled in the drama of the Upper East Side, and by all accounts, they’re very happy. Vanessa works on an organic farm in California and sells her produce to Serena’s green juice company.

Jenny Humphrey splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, designing for Nasty Gal and occasionally making “punk-inspired” bags for Waldorf Designs. She started to feel creatively stifled, though, so she took up guitar like her dad Rufus and released an album about mean girls and feeling misunderstood. It became massively popular with teen girls, and Jenny’s become kind of an alt-heroine to them. At her shows, there are crowds of girls dressed up Jenny-style in fishnets, leather jackets, and lots of black eyeliner. Eric van der Woodsen joined his big sister Serena in Los Angeles and runs her green juice company. He lives in West Hollywood and has recently gotten really into Crossfit.L.A. will do that to a guy. Blair’s right hand, Dorota, is happily married to Vanya and is the proud mother of three children. She’s now Blair’s administrative assistant and go-to event planner at Waldorf Designs, and the two of them are still as thick as thieves. There are fewer schemes now that everyone’s settled down, but Dorota doesn’t mind.

Would you believe that Rufus and Lily got back together again? They just couldn’t stay away from one another, so they dumped Lisa Loeb and Serena’s dad and picked up where they left off after Dan and Serena divorced. Honestly, no one was that surprised — Lily had been interested in Rufus since his Lincoln Hawk songs took off on Spotify after being added to a ‘90s throwback playlist, and once he hit the road on a nostalgia tour, she couldn’t let him go without her — just like the old days. So they’re back together! Holidays are a little awkward, but Serena’s become so zen because of her yoga and green juice lifestyle that she doesn’t get too bothered about her ex-husband showing up at Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving’s always been weird for the Humphrey-van der Woodsen clan, anyway.

: Here’s What Your Favorite ‘Gossip Girl’ Characters Would Be Doing in 2017

Did Blair and Dan sleep together?

Dan Slept With His Teacher – Dan and Serena both had relationships with teachers during the Gossip Gir l run. A hypocrite with a capital H, Dan made a 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.

Is Blair In Love With Dan

Season Five – In Yes, Then Zero, Blair goes to Dan when she’s thinking about leaving Louis but becomes angry when she realizes not only was Dan going to let her leave everything with no questions, but he knew Louis was protecting her. In Beauty and the Feast, Dan is the first person Blair tells about her pregnancy voluntarily.

1. She goes to see him that night, and admits she isn’t sure if Louis or Chuck is the father, and Dan promises to be there for her no matter what happens.
2. Eventually with the coaxing of Dan and Dorota, Blair decides to take a DNA test to figure out who the father is.
3. But once she receives the results, she decides not to look.

After Dorota finds out, she calls Dan, who tries everything to make Blair look. Eventually he physically puts them in her hand and encourages her to look, if not for herself, for the baby, and she does ( The Jewel of Denial ). After Dan’s book Inside comes out, Louis reads the parts with Blair and sees that Dan wrote about having sex with her.

Upset, he cancels dinner with Blair and their parents and lies that his mother was delayed. Blair realizes it was Dan’s book, and she too discovers what he wrote. She confronts him at his book release party, saying that what he wrote could end her engagement. He apologizes, and she makes up with Louis later ( Memoirs of an Invisible Dan ).

Soon after, Blair decides not to invite Dan or Chuck to her wedding shower. Upset at being left out, Dan gets drunk and shows up anyway, ready to reveal his true feelings to Blair. Chuck goes to get him and stop him from ruining Blair’s night, but she becomes angry that he crashed the event.

• Afterwards, Serena explains to Blair that Chuck was doing her a favor by stopping Dan from ruining the party ( All the Pretty Sources ).
• After she decides to take a break from Louis, Blair goes to stay with Dan to avoid the paparazzi.
• She considers leaving Louis for Chuck, but becomes devastated when Chuck tells her to stay with him.

Dan, seeing how heartbroken Blair is, decides to bring them together secretly to finally be together. After it’s done, he tells Serena that he was going to tell her how he felt, but realized helping her be with Chuck was the right thing to do ( Riding in Town Cars With Boys ). After Blair recovers from her accident and from losing her baby, Dan supports her by helping her secretly go to church and heal spiritually. However, Chuck and Louis suspect she’s having an affair with Dan and plan to out them at Nate’s New Year’s Eve party.

1. After Serena learns the real truth about why Blair is avoiding Chuck, she lies that she’s back with Dan to save Blair from public embarrassment and losing Louis ( The End of the Affair? ).
2. After Dan leaks the video of Blair and Chuck confession (and blames Serena for that) during the ceremony and Blair realizes Louis no longer loves her, she turns to Dan to help her escape the wedding ( G.G.).

He brings her to the airport to help her escape the country to get a divorce, and then takes her to a hotel to wait for the next flight. After Blair decides to stay married as to not ruin her family’s future, Dan promises to be there for her ( The Backup Dan ).

When Blair returns from her honeymoon, she decides to bring Dan and Serena back together for Valentine’s Day. However, her plan backfires when Dan kisses her and she surprises herself by kissing back. Despite her feelings, she tells him that they can’t be together because of the prenup and the dowry ( Crazy Cupid Love ).

In Cross Rhodes, Blair kisses Dan and Serena unfortunately witnesses. At the hospital, they finally realize their true feelings for each other and enter into a relationship ( The Princess Dowry ). Soon after, they attempt to consummate their relationship but are disappointed when the first time is awkward and terrible. After they both get drunk, they hook up in the elevator in the VDW building and decide that they connect “sexually” as well as intellectually ( Con Heir ).

Blair receives her divorce papers, but doesn’t sign them. Dan finds out that Chuck paid her dowry and assumes that that’s why she didn’t sign. However, she admits to him that she didn’t sign because she wasn’t ready to stop being a princess yet. To solve her problem, he dresses her up in a gown and brings her to the Met steps to meet some fans of hers ( It-Girl Interrupted ).

In Salon of the Dead, they clash over who’s world they want to let their relationship live in. To reach a consensus, they host a salon that ends up getting crashed by Serena, Nate, Chuck, and Lola Rhodes, Serena’s cousin. It ends up failing, but they decide to try and make things work anyway.

After reading that Dan is highbrow while she is lowbrow, Blair plots to make herself more relevant. In her quest, she ruins a party in Dan’s honor but he forgives her, and agrees to help her find out who she really is ( Despicable B ). In Raiders of the Lost Art, Dan is offered a fellowship in Rome, Italy for the whole summer.

He invites Blair to come with him, but she dances around giving him an answer. After finding out she’s back to scheming with Chuck, he lies to her that he lost the fellowship to someone else. However, she finds out that isn’t true and encourages him to take it.

She agrees to go with him to Italy, despite Dan wondering why she hasn’t said she loves him back yet ( The Fugitives ). In the finale The Return of the Ring, pages from Blair’s diary are released, in those pages Blair admits she is afraid of her never being able to love someone as much as she loves Chuck even though the relationship with Dan was good and she felt intellectually stimulated.

This statement upsets Dan. She steals his phone to keep him from seeing, but he sees anyway. He tells her that if she cares about him, she’ll meet him at the Shepherds’ divorce party to tell him. She debates whether to go, but ultimately chooses to end their relationship to be with Chuck.

• Meanwhile, Serena meets Dan at the Sheperd’s and tells him that his love for “Blair” was based on the character he created but not on the real Blair, she tells Dan that the “real Blair” has always loved scheming and that it will always be a part of her nature.
• Dan does not trust Blair and finally decides to hook up with Serena after she confesses her love for him.

Serena kisses Dan and records everything on her cellphone. Blair is reluctant whether not to pursue Chuck, but she comes to realize she has always loved Chuck and goes to Monaco to tell Chuck she’s ready to be with him.

Is Jenny evil in Gossip Girl?

Type of Villain Jenny Humphrey is a minor antagonist in Gossip Girl seasons 1-3. She is portrayed by Taylor Momsen.

Why didn t Blair and Dan end up together?

Overview: – 4.11: “The Townie” Dan and Blair started out as enemies in Season One, but because of Serena (Blair’s best friend and Dan ‘s then-girlfriend), they were seen interacting with each other from time to time, but only when Serena was involved. Later as the season progressed, Dan was the one who comforted Blair after being humiliated by her own mother and Serena.

• Thus begun the start of their friend/enemy relationship.
• In the Second Season, they continued to interact with each other whenever it involved Serena or if Blair sought Dan ‘s advice on her relationship with Chuck Bass,
• Throughout Season Three, Blair and Dan still have the whole ” frenemy ” relationship going on, but started to warm up to one another.

Finally, in the Fourth Season, 1×09: Blair Waldorf Must Pie they slowly become closer after teaming up against Juliet Sharp, this time in order to “save” Serena, and realizing that they both share a variety of interests, such as watching old Hollywood films, art exhibits, etc. They are depicted as the two intellectual-equals in 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.

1. After a terrible accident, Blair starts going to church with Dan accompanying her.
2. Blair has second thoughts about the wedding, but carries on with it anyway.
3. Chuck realizes that Dan is still in love with Blair, and sees him as a rival.
4. Dan and Blair ‘s relationship starts to develop romantically on Valentine’s Day when Blair and Dan kiss for the first time.

Dan and Blair kiss again in the next episode. Dan and Blair began dating in The Princess Dowry, but their relationship is up in the air as of the season five finale, The Return of the Ring,

Why did Dan love Blair

Gossip Girl: Why Dan and Blair Should’ve Ended Up Together It’s been eight years since Gossip Girl aired its final episode, yet the series remains a staple in teen drama history. Chuck and Blair’s wedding was an event that gave fans a satisfying conclusion to the show’s central love story, but was Chair’s ending a negative result of its time period? Truth be told, a relationship such as their’s likely wouldn’t be ‘shipped in today’s society.

Especially not when the one between Dan and Blair was its polar opposite. While Chuck and Blair’s romance was built on toxicity and abuse, Dan and Blair were each other’s best friend and equal. There’s no shortage of horrible things Chuck has done to Blair and in general. But, this is Gossip Girl, and it’s difficult to find even one character who wasn’t corrupt in some way.

In hindsight, they were all horrible people. However, Chuck Bass’ actions, particularly in regards to the woman he claimed to love, was above and beyond what can be deemed as fictional fun. Once you have a main character attempt to rape two different girls in the very first episode, there’s no possible way to redeem them. This isn’t, and the characters aren’t supernatural creatures who maim and kill each other over the slightest discrepancy. Gossip Girl is rooted in reality, and the relationships they portray are meant to be a reflection of our everyday lives. It was the reality of Chuck and Blair’s issues, and the real-life horror stories wrapped into Chuck’s character that made their relationship especially disturbing to see deemed as true love.

The manipulation on Chuck’s end made us want to get Blair as far away from that man as possible. Not only did he trade his girlfriend’s body to his sleazy uncle in exchange for his hotel, but he tried to make her believe it was her own idea. Chuck: I can’t let my feelings cost me all that I’ve built. Blair: Even if it means losing me, instead? All I ever did was love you.

Chuck: The worst thing I ever did. The darkest thought I ever had. You said you would stand by me through anything. This, Blair, is anything. Blair: I never thought that the worst thing you would ever do would be to me. Chuck: You went up there on your own.

• Sadly, the abuse doesn’t stop there and even gets physical later in the series.
• The most important thing to note is that while Chuck would treat Blair one way, Dan would treat her the complete opposite.
• It was almost as if Gossip Girl was trying to distinguish between a healthy relationship and an abusive one, which makes Chuck and Blair ending up together all the more puzzling.
• After finding out that Blair was engaged, Chuck gets drunk and has a violent outburst that leaves Blair injured and running from his apartment.

Similarly to the hotel incident, Chuck treats Blair like property claiming that she is “his.” Chuck: You’ll never marry anyone else. You’re mine. Blair: I wanted to be. I wanted it so badly, but not anymore. Chuck: You’re mine, Blair! However, when it comes to Dan’s feelings for Blair, he handles them differently.

Although he too wishes he could be with Blair, he respects that she doesn’t have the same feelings for him, and encourages her to find the love she deserves. Blair, your prince is out there waiting for you. It might not be me or Chuck, but he’s out there. Dan Dan was Blair’s support system, her confidant, and her best friend.

She even came to rely on him more than Serena as she knew that Dan would be there for her no matter what. Dan and Blair’s evolution from enemies to begrudging allies to best friends was hands down the most incredible arc on the entire show.

1. Although the two came from two separate worlds, they slowly but surely realized just how similar they truly were.
2. They both dealt with their own internal struggles.
3. Blair was always afraid that she wasn’t good enough and that she would constantly be overshadowed by Serena.

Dan, on the other hand, seemed to think he was better than everyone else because he hadn’t been corrupted by wealth. But the two managed to balance each other out, and they even became borderline honorable people when they were together. And that’s saying a lot, Dan and Blair’s interactions felt like they didn’t belong in a show as dark and deceitful as Gossip Girl. Their bickering was straight out of a rom-com, and it was disappointing to return to the show’s brooding atmosphere when they weren’t onscreen together. In a moment of honesty, Blair admitted to her mom how being around Chuck made her feel. What I want is to be a powerful woman. But whenever Chuck’s around I just feel like a weak little girl. Blair

• Which is extremely telling when you compare it to what Blair had to say about being around Dan.

Dan is my best friend and when we’re together it’s great. I feel strong and safe. Blair From Blair’s verbal acknowledgments of her relationship with Chuck, it’s clear that the Gossip Girl writers knew the kind of romance they were writing. So why would they continue to write it? It almost seems like they were too worried to back out of their original plan. Because we were all more willing to let characters such as Chuck Bass slide back in the day, Dan and Blair were tossed aside and labeled as an obstacle in Chair’s journey. If a healthy relationship was simply an obstacle for Blair to return to her abusive one, then what kind of message is that sending? Dan always believed in Blair, even when she didn’t believe in herself. She never had to dumb herself down to please him, and the two even had lively debates about art and culture. Blair was more herself around Dan than anyone else. Blair: Somehow between being traded for a hotel and selling out for a tiara I lost my true self.

But I want to be found. Could you possibly help?Dan: I have a feeling that the real Blair Waldorf is a lot closer than you think. It wasn’t all that long ago that she and I were working side-by-side at W. And I totally fell for her.Blair: And what was that girl like? Dan: That girl is fiercely strong. Independent.

Outspoken. Beautiful. Capable of anything. And no man or magazine should be able to take that away from her. Their romance could’ve been the one that broke the mold for all the teen dramas to follow. The world just wasn’t ready for a Humphry-Waldorf relationship.

1. Gossip Girl writers, if you wanted to change your mind about Dan and Blair’s relationship, you have the perfect opportunity.
2. Anything is possible, right?

What do you think, Gossip Girl fanatics? Do you think Dan and Blair should’ve ended up together? Or are you still Team Chair all the way? Let us know in the comments section down below! And don’t forget, if you haven’t seen the show you can right here at TV Fanatic. : Gossip Girl: Why Dan and Blair Should’ve Ended Up Together

Who does Nate Archibald end up with

Summary – Nate was born to Howard Archibald, a successful business magnate and former Navy captain, and Anne Archibald, a member of the van der Bilt family, on March 27th, 1991. Nate is considered to be the “golden boy of the Upper East Side.” Nate is best friends with Chuck, with whom he attends the elite St.

Jude’s School for Boys and share a deep friendship with. Throughout the show, Nate has been involved in numerous romantic relationships, none of which turned out successful. He once said to Dan “that all his life he has chased after girls that have been wrong for him”. In the finale, he is the only main character who is still single.

Nate has aspirations for a future in politics, it was for this reason he took an interest in running the Spectator. In the finale, Nate on his way to Dan and Serena’s wedding, tells a reporter his intention of running for mayor of New York.

Did Chuck and Serena ever sleep together?

Good Luck, Chuck – One of the most popular friendships on the show was between Serena and Chuck Bass. Their relationship in the books is vastly different. First off, they never become close friends, nor do they become family members as they did for a short while in the series.

The most shocking difference between the show and the books is that Serena and Chuck actually sleep together for a few weeks before being exposed on Gossip Girl. Changing the relationship between Serena and Chuck makes complete sense in the world Serena finds herself in. With Dan now a key figure in her life, it did not make sense to include this aspect in the show.

This camaraderie created for the series gives Serena a much-needed ally, making the dynamic super entertaining on-screen.