Xoxo, Gossip…who?
But as it turns out, he wasn’t always the frontrunner for the mysterious snarky blogger.
“Dan was not my intended Gossip Girl,”Gossip Girlwriter and executive producer Joshua Safran said at Vulture Festival over the weekend, according toBuzzfeed.
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So who was the original Gossip Girl intended to be? According to Safran, it was Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively)’s own brother, Eric (Connor Paolo).
“We worked hard to kind of lay in tiny seeds about it being Eric, and then theNY Postwrote an article saying that Gossip Girl was Eric so we were like, ‘We gotta scratch that,'” he said.
Safran said the show then turned its attention toChace Crawford‘s Nate Archibald.
“Then…one of the writers realized that Nate had never sent a tip in to Gossip Girl, which is true at least through the end of season five,” he said. “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.'”
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“Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl,” the upcoming streaming service said in a statement. “The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years.”
Kristen Bellhassigned on to narrate. The actress, 39, voiced the mysterious narrator during the series’ original run from 2007 to 2012. It is still unclear if any other original actors will make an appearance on the new show.
source: people.com
