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popcultureangel@lohanisgod · Aug 21, 2024

a thread of the drama behind the scenes of ‘gossip girl’ (ur welcome!)

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A behind-the-scenes look at Gossip Girl drama, including alleged underage dating involving cast members, on-set feuds between Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen's professional conflicts and exit, and producers encouraging real-life relationships and controversy to feed the show's narrative.

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  1. #1

    a thread of the drama behind the scenes of ‘gossip girl’ (ur welcome!)

  2. #2

    allegedly* 15 year old taylor momsen and 23 year old chace crawford were dating.. they were spotted at a party kissing.

  3. #3

    most of the cast has dated another cast member actually. sebastian and leighton meester dated in 2008. ed westwick and jessica szohr dated in 2008 blake lively and penn badgley dated in 2007. kelly rutherford and matthew settle were rumored to be dating

  4. #4

    taylor momsen’s iconic transformation. she eventually left the show, but there was a ton of allegations that she was unprofessional on set during this time. tim gunn called her a ‘diva, and a brat’. shortly after this she was put on ‘indefinite hiatus’

  5. #5

    in season 3, there were rumors leighton meester and taylor momsen didn’t get along. taylor was pissed that the show used leighton meester’s song ‘good girls go bad’. a rep said: the show will support taylor and her music when the time is right, but her music is not ready.

  6. #6

    blake lively started dating leonardo dicaprio in 2011, and was filming a movie in LA. that’s why serena moved to LA in season 5

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    ed westwick and leighton meester were roommates while filming the show.

  8. #8

    leighton meester wanted the role of blair waldorf so bad, and the show said blake lively was already blonde. so leighton dyed her hair brunette.

  9. #9

    there were tons of rumors that leighton meester and blake lively didn’t get along. they were not friends once they stopped filming, but could easily pretend while filming. it caused tension on set, apparently cast members chose sides. they deny it though

  10. #10

    blake lively has said the producers of the show actually encouraged them and wanted them to date co stars, wear their character’s clothes in real life and get into drama. she said ‘it fed their whole narrative’

  11. #11

    penn badgley was known to hate his character on the show, and has self proclaimed he had a bad attitude about ‘gossip girl’ in general. he said he was ‘judgey’ back then, and didn’t want to do TV acting.

  12. #12

    eric was supposed to be revealed as gossip girl, but the script was leaked online which made the writers to make gossip girl dan.

  13. #13

    armie hammer was allegedly fired from gossip girl for calling blake lively “an insufferable bitch”.

  14. #14

    how can you forget when the show used bad reviews as promo for the new season..iconic!