Pardon us while we take a moment to revel in our STUNNED SILENCE……..
……… What the!
New photos from the set of Gossip Girl show some serrrious PDA between the Queen B and (her?) Lonely Boy — and our imaginations are running wild!
In the shots, Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) is dressed as his usual self, but Blair(Leighton Meester) is in full-on princess mode! (Tiara?! Check!) So… what’s the setting for this loving lip-lock? Has Blair just escaped (another) royal function and run to Dan? Is Dan… dreaming? Is Blair dreaming? ARE WE DREAMING?
While last night’s episode, “The Backup Dan,” wasn’t quite the GIANT LEAP we were hoping for in the tale of Dan and Blair… Might we now be looking at proof positive that the debut of Dair is on the way?
How are we to explain these photos?! Naturally, we’ve got a few of ideas…
Maybe next week’s Valentine’s Day episode will be the one that pushes the emotions over the proverbial edge for Dan and he’ll profess all his love to Blair! (Or, maybe, judging by the promo, Blair will make a move?) Either way, it’s clear from the pics that the affection – along with those princess commitments, ewww – isn’t going anywhere any time soon!
How long can Gossip Girl go without giving us SOMETHING to keep our Dair hopes alive? Maybe they’ll just toss us another dream sequence to appease us for now... After all, Blair is looking pretty dreamy in that pink gown, and with all the stress in her life, that smile on her face is really big. It’d break our hearts to think all this is just taking place in Dan’s imagination, but then again… the show’s definitely pulled that kinda business before…
What better way to get out of your stupid, awful, no-good marriage than to make your vindictive husband wildly jealous? These pics are obviouslybeing taken outside, and the actions contained within obviously attract some attention. Is Blair creating a scandal so that the royal fam will release her from their maniacal hold?! Not a bad idea… One question: Is Dan in on the ruse?? (We hope!)
NATE THROWS A VALENTINE’S DAY BASH / ST. VINCENT PERFORMS — It’s Valentine’s Day on the Upper East Side and Blair(Leighton Meester) can’t resist playing cupid for someone she loves. Georgina (Michelle Tratchenberg) is intent on stirring up more drama, so she decides to crash Nate’s (Chace Crawford) Valentine’s Day party. Meanwhile, Serena (Blake Lively) is shocked by something she witnesses at the party. Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick, Kaylee DeFer, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star
Blair (Leighton Meester)’s all dolled-up in red – and, it appears, back home in NYC – and Dan humphrey (Penn Badgley) is about to go in for the kill. Hoooo wahhh!
Since our brains are busy breaking all over our faces and we can’t formulate one coherent thought, we need to lean on you more than ever, Dair ‘shippers.
To review the end of “G.G” in the tiniest little nutshell on earth: Blair(Leighton Meester) called Dan (Penn Badgley) to help her out of the HORRIBLE Prince Louis (Hugo Becker) sitch. (She could have also calledKim Kardashian. Kim knows all about annulments, right?) So... was she calling Humphrey in a pinch? As the one friend who she can trust and rely upon in her time of need? Or... is she realizing that perhaps she loves him. And he’s the ONLY one who will understand? He DID write her wedding vows, after all. (There’s also THIS...)
We just don’t know! What does this mean? And then there’s next week to think about. So tell us: Is Blair maaaaybe into Dan? Or is he just a means to an end? (The end being Chuck’s warm embrace, of course.)
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Giovanni Rufino/The CWSurprise!
Gossip Girl's highly anticipated 100th episode aired tonight, with Blair's (Leighton Meester) big royal wedding to Prince Louis, and it was full of shockers galore. So did she go through with it? Which guy(s) were left devastated? Did anyone see that twist coming?
I have exclusive scoop on what happens next—and why Blair did what she did!—from all three of Gossip Girl's big bosses: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Josh Safran...
GIOVANNI RUFINO/THE CWBlair did indeed say "I do" to Prince Louis.
Only glitch? She also ran away from her own wedding reception with a man named...Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley).
Wait, no, that can't be right. Gotta fire up the DVR and re-check that.
Wow. Yep, that is actually what happened. Mind. Blown.
While more than a few Gossip Girl fans might have presumed Blair would ditch Louis (pre-vows) and head off into the sunset with Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), those crafty writers threw out a big ol' curveball.
So why did Blair do it? Savage explains: "Part of it was coming from Blair's character and really trying to follow and be consistent with her thought process and her emotions up to this point. And her willingness to stick with her plan and to take this to the end of the line. And as we started to think about the story that actually generates, if you kind sort of let your mind percolate into things that might happen in the future, it generates a lot more story this way."
To that, Josh Schwartz lovingly teases: "Plus, we really just wanted to piss off those 'Chair' fans so they don't destroy my Twitter feeds on a weekly basis." Savage is quick to point out that Chuck and Blair had "some great great moments in tonight's episode and there are many more to come—They are not by any means done!" but Schwartz still (smartly) predicts that at least a few diehard Chair fans won't be happy. "They're going to come with pitchforks! I probably will just not go online tonight. I mean, it's funny, on Friday we aired the last episode ofChuck [which Schwartz also created] and it was so nice and everyone was so lovely and now tonight will be...the opposite. They are coming for us."
Of course, it's precisely that kind of fierce fan intensity that has helped Gossip Girl reach the big 100, and what happens next is sure to keep everyone guessing, and tuning in.
"You're going to see how [what Blair did] impacts everyone," Safran says of the very next episode. "Chuck and Serena together dealing with Dan and Blair together." As for Louis, who went all-out villain during the wedding, telling Blair there is no love between them, Safran says Blair will face "all sorts of consequences" from her new husband. "This is not taken lightly." Dun dun dun.
While Safran wouldn't reveal much about where the Dan and Blair storyline is going, he teases, "That story's going to go in an interesting direction."
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CWAnother huge reveal in tonight's episode? The apparent reveal of Gossip Girl's identity! If it really is the show's on-again-off-again villainess Georgina, does that mean Michele Trachtenberg is now going to narrate the series? No, says Savage. "You'll definitely always hear Kristen Bell's voice as Gossip Girl because the idea was never that that voice was attached to a specific person and that one day, Kristen Bell would be on the show and you'd recognize that voice as Gossip Girl. So whenever we hear Gossip Girl, we hear Kristen."
Regardless of where your shipper heart lies, you gotta admit tonight's 100th episode was a storyline of epic proportions, and surprises.
"We wanted it to feel big," Schwartz explains, "something that would feel like it was pushing the buttons in terms of the core series mythology and core characters, but would also feel shocking and something that would really work as a springboard for the whole back-half of the season."
So how much longer will Gossip Girl go on? Sounds like it could very well end after next season. Schwartz tells me, "Our philosophy has always been that these kinds of show aren't meant to run forever...This season I think has been one of the best seasons of the show and there's a lot of creative vibrancy to the show and you want to go out on top creatively. So next year the actors' contracts are up and perhaps that is a natural time to end it."
As for who Blair might ultimately wind up with at the very end of the series, Savage tells me: "I'll just say that to the credit of Blair the character and to Leighton the actress, she has so many layers and possibilities that you can really see how either of these guys would be a great fit for her."
See...We can all just get along! Down with the pitchforks, friends!
—Additional reporting by Tierney Bricker
You can take your venting/raving to our comments section instead. Did you love the 100th episode? Hate it? What are you hoping happens next? Let's try to play nice
We now have the official guide for Gossip Girl season 5 episode 15, untitled “Crazy, Cupid, Love”. Episode airs on February 13. Enjoy!
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