Gossip Girl took us on a journey to the heart of the privileged life of the inhabitants of the Upper East Side for almost six years. But today, what has become of the actors of the flagship series? We'll give you a little recap.
"Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite". .. Do you remember this sentence like it was yesterday? You too then, you were addicted to the series Gossip Girl . This teen show kept us in suspense for almost 6 seasons and even if the discovery of the identity of Gossip Girl has disappointed more than one, we are always ready to dive back into the life of the golden youth of New York.
However, it has already been 8 years since we said goodbye to Upper East Side and its inhabitants, Serena, Dan, Nate, Chuck and Blair. But today, what has become of the actors of this cult series? We tell you everything.
Since the end of the filming of Gossip Girl , Jessica Szohr did not give up her acting career. She starred in series such as Twin Peaks , or even Shameless . We could also find her at the cinema in the film Ted 2.
On the private side, after being in a relationship from 2008 to 2010 with her on-screen partner Ed Westwick, she now lives with ice hockey player Brad Richardson. The couple also announced in September 2020 that they were expecting a happy event.
Taylor Momsen gave up her acting career to focus solely on her music career. She is the singer of the group "The Pretty Reckless ". The band hasn't released an album since 2016, but they released a new Halloween-themed song on October 23.
Nor did Connor Paolo enjoy a runaway success as an actor . After Gossip Girl , he interpreted the role of Declan in the series Revenge , and in 2020, he makes an appearance in the series The Resident.
The career of the unforgettable Dorota also did not take off after the end of Gossip Gir I. She made a few appearances in TV series, but didn't have a recurring role after that. She mainly devoted herself to the theatre.
In 2017, she told Cosmopolitan always be very close to Leighton Meester :
Kelly Rutherford's career is busy. After playing Lily Van Der Woodsen wonderfully, she then had many roles in series such as Bones ,Jane The Virgin or Dynasty . In 2019, she even gets a lead role in the Pretty Little Liars:The Perfectionists spin-off. Unfortunately, the series was not renewed after season 1.
Matthew Settle has disappeared from the sets since 2017 . He devotes himself to his family life. With his partner Maria Alfonsin, they had a daughter named Nalu in 2015. He also has another daughter, Aven, from his first marriage.
The exceptional Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl is the last recurring role that Michelle Trachtenberg had in her career. If she has made a few television appearances since, she is relatively rare. However, she strongly urgedher subscribers to vote in the next US elections to be held on November 3, 2020.
Penn Badgley has been busy since quitting his Dan Humphrey character. He has played many roles in the cinema, notably in 2009 in Le Beau-père alongside Amber Heard, but also in Easy Girl with Emma Stone in 2010.
But lately, he's mostly been known as Joe Goldberg, the psychopath from the Netflix series You .The third season should also arrive by 2021 (if the covid-19 obviously allows it). On the private side, the actor and his girlfriend Domino Kirke recently welcomed their first child together.
Difficult to get rid of a role such as that of Blair Waldorf. By the way, after Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester preferred to take a break from her acting career and focus on her musical career. She then returned to the small screen in one of the main roles in the series Single Parents.
She married Adam Brody , the unforgettable Seth Cohen in NewPort Beach. Together since 2012, the couple had two children:a little girl, Arlo Day Brody born in 2015 and a boy born in September 2020, whose first name has not yet been announced.
Chace Crawford has landed many roles in TV shows like Casual , Blood and Oil or The Boys . On the cinema side, he participated in many films , but especially at Bloodline , released in 2020 alongside Lily Collins.
He separated in 2019 from his partner, Rebecca Rittenhouse, whom he had met on the set of Blood and Oil. Since then, we do not know of a new companion.
Ed Westwick has been on many shoots since the end of Gossip Girl. In 2011, he notably played alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the film J.Edgar . He even gets the lead role in a new Netflix series, White Gold . In 2017, he was accused of rape by different women. The BBC then decides to suspend the filming of season 2 of the series. The evidence being insufficient, the charges were finally dropped.
Since 2019 he has been in a relationship with Tamara Francesconi.
Blake Lively is probably the actress of Gossip Girl the best known today. She left the small screen behind, but she got many big movie roles. If we all remember Four Girls and Jeans released in 2005, she then starred in The Town in 2010, Café Society by Woody Allen in 2016, or in 2020 in The Rhythm of Vengeance.
After being in a relationship for two years with her co-star Penn Badgley, she then dated Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2010, she met actor Ryan Reynolds whom she married in 2012. The couple have three daughters:James born in 2014, Inez born in 2016 and Betty born in 2019.
What if Gossip Girl miss you, a reboot of the series will be released on HBO in 2021. So, in a hurry? XOXO.
