Spotted: Us becoming one with our couch as all six seasons of the OG version of Gossip Girl make their triumphant return to Netflix Oct. 29. That's right, the CW hit series that launched the careers of Blake Lively , Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley is available for your viewing pleasure.
And though the series that made us all say OMFG has been dissected about as frequently as Lively's Serena van der Woodsen changed boyfriends on the beloved teen drama, there's always more to dig up about Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage 's creation, which launched in September 2007. And we're not just talking about the blisteringly hot tea Chace Crawford spilled during a June 2024 appearance on Call Her Daddy , revealing that he hooked up with one of his costars. "It's the downtime," he explained of the recipe for romance among his ridiculously attractive coworkers.
"You're doing this show, you're on set for like 12-14 hours a day and usually there's some pretty interesting people from all walks of life." As for who he got up close and personal with, that's one secret he'll never tell. But we made no such promises of discretion.
So, we're revealing some behind-the-scenes tidbits you might not know about the show, like which Oscar winner almost landed the role of Serena and why Ed Westwick was almost recast right before filming began. Oh, and did you know there were two '90s icons who were considered to read the titular narrator's quippy texts before Kristen Bell ultimately became the voic.
