A look at how gossip girl changed in the transition from paper to screen. While some of the major plot points remain intact, the creators of this show took some serious liberties with the source. Welcome to new york citys upper east side, where my friends and i live, go to school, play, and sleep sometimes with each other. In the gossip girl books who does nate choose blair or serena. In the end of the book series, nate chooses blair, and she is overjoyed while serena is heartbroken. The quintessence of classy, not trashy, she was undoubtedly the it girl. Once she does so, she goes looking for dan but finds that georgina is with him. Blair tries to sabotage the fashion show but it ends up being a huge success. If serena had ended up with nate, they wouldve divorced within 35 years. Blair doesnt get into her top choice, but serena does. Dan and serena are on again off again throughout the entire series and end up getting married.
The cw series chose to make eric serenas younger brother. Download in pdf, epub, and mobi format for read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Jenny returns to constance and is forced to contend with blairs minions. The books in the series follow mean girl blair, earthy serena, stoner nate, edgy dan and vanessa, cute jenny and others in their circle.
Here are 10 surprising facts even true gossip girl fans dont know. In a season finale rife with cliffhangers, gossip girl livens things up at graduation by sending out a shocking email blast during the ceremony. Gossip girl welcome to new york citys upper east side, where my friends and i live, go to school, play, and sleepsometimes with each other. Dan gets a job shelving books at the strand bookstore and ends up dating his. Dan gets a job shelving books at the strand bookstore and ends up. As someone who has never seen gossip girl, i watched the. He is gay, which is the key aspect of his character and he is younger than serena. S is back from boarding school, and if we arent careful, shes going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldnt fit into, steal our boyfriends hearts, and basically ruin our. Im here to talk to you today about one of the gravest injustices in tv history. I really just wanna kno who everyone ends up wit dont worry about spoilin it pleez.
Bc find out the inner depth of new yorks princess and new yorks playboy, will they end up living happily ever after without gossipgirl. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged socialite teenagers at the constance billard school for girls, an elite private school in new york citys upper east side. Kind of revised from the end of one of the episodes. Serena walked in a fashion show in a cheap custom tshirt that said i love. He never dates blair, but the show does kick off with his suicide attempt. The 7th book in the gossip girls series picks up almost right after the other one and probably spans the shortest amount of time of any of the other books. Gossip girl lessons as told through blair waldorf quotes.
Serena and nate had sex for the first time in his parents bed. A novel gossip girl series paperback april 1, 2002. In valley girls, a proposed spinoff is introduced which would. She ended up being extremely confident and outgoing, especially when it. Serena is blair waldorfs best friend and is a character that appears to easily get whatever she wants because of her good looks, energy, and charisma. In the show, the two are onandoffagain during the whole series, and even end up getting married. The one where this guy was going to kill blair and had a lighter, and chuck and serena rescued her. On the show, chuck has a dog named monkey but it wasnt the same. Books mentioned in gossip girl show list info in this list, you can check all the books mentioned in the american tv show gossip girl 2007 2012. Another followup novel, in which the characters return home from college for the holidays, was released in hardback format in november 2009. Everyone loved serena, but i always loved the protagonist of gossip girl, blair waldorf.
While the show may have led us all to believe that dans entire modus operandi was to be with serena, in the books, the two date briefly before breaking up when they realise they have nothing in common. Nathaniel fitzwilliam nate archibald is a main character in the gossip girl series of novels and on its television adaption, in which he is portrayed by chace crawford. Jul 02, 2008 nate didnt pick blair or serena because he couldnt pick he loved the both of them too much to choose. There are times in life where you need to stand up tall, swallow your pride and. Jan 23, 2018 these are the main differences between the gossip girl books and tv show.
Dan is good friends with nate archibald, blair waldorf, and chuck bass. Serenas desperation for romance, initially seeking this with nate causes the conflict between her and her frenemy, blair, who is also nates girlfriend. In it, dan reads a post on gossip girl that serena is looking for a date to the masked ball. Two, and more importantly, getting close with teachers is a major nono.
In the thirteenth novel, she decides to stay in new york to be with nate, but at the end, he leaves. I know gossip girl recently ended and was wondering if anyone was able to tell me if serena and nate end up together in the end of the show, i know that have flings, but do they end up together. In gossip girl series, who does everyone end up with. Does nate end up with jenny in gossip girl answers. Giovanni rufinothe cw gossip girl gossip girl series finale. Even gossip girl said that nate and blair belong together. The original novel became the inspiration for the gossip girl teen drama. In lieu of bread crumbs, last nights thanksgivingthemed gossip girl was stuffed with pregnancies, elevator grabass, and a really inappropriate onesie.
It spawned two spinoff book series, the it girl and gossip girl. Whatever your feelings about the past few seasons of gossip girl, you gotta admit, the finale last night was pretty dang close to perfection. Serena models for a hot designer and dan publishes a poem in the new yorker. Were dan penn badgley and serena blake lively meant to be. Im really into gossip girl now and i really want to know who serena and dan end up with in the books and if dan is really gay. Blake livelys not proud of gossip girl or serena van. One reason gossip girl was so successful was that its characters made. All they did became take the character names from the books.
Dan and serena barely have a relationship in the books. In the book series, eric is an invisible character, away at university from the start because he is serenas older brother. On top of that, gossip girl herself gave serena her relevancythus creating a. He, blair and serena are the only characters that appear in every episode of the tv series. Nate archibald deserved a better ending on gossip girl. It was the blast that knocked the upper east side off its christian louboutin stilettos. In the television series, blake lively plays serena, leighton meester plays blair. Serena is also more of a mean girl than show serena. Here are the characters as they are in the gossip girl novels. During the season finale and serena s hunt for gossip girl, jenny decides to compete to be the next queen bee after blair leaves.
In the gossip girl books who does nate end up with answers. S s jenny has crushed on nate with increasing ferocity, but its never progressed past kisses, which nate usually intends for serena anyway. In the present time, viewers saw dan decide to give the final chapter of his book to nate archibald chace crawford and the spectator, which revealed who gossip girl was. Beyond fancy vacations and charity events, they get glam in other ways. Serena and nate both needed someone that could challenge them and help them grow. In the sixth season, dan reveals himself to be the anonymous blogger known as gossip girl.
When gossip girl intentionally exposes blairs secrets on gossip girl, dan comes to terms with blairs feelings for chuck, as well as serena s attempts to sabotage their relationship. Based on the series of young adult books of the same name, fans watched a group of high schoolers from new york struggle to stay at the top of the social ladder while stabbing one another in the back one week and teaming up the next. Chuck keeps on getting away with being a skeevy asshole because hes popular and rich. How did the relationship pairing end up like in the books. One, teachers are not all extraordinarily goodlooking. Who do serena and dan end up with in the gossip girl book. Nate breaks up with her after she helps to humiliate vanessa at the ball. Gossip girl series finale spoilers chuck and blair. When he comes upon this news, he is shocked shocked. Serena and dan split up just two years after their wedding when. Will chuck bass ed westwick go down with the plane or is he just up to something major. Gossip girl always made a point of hiring especially attractive actors and actresses to portray their characters.
Chuckblair is barely a thing in the books, i believe there was a book with them written after the show became popular though. Gossip girl was based off her experience growing up in new york. A lot of young people watch gossip girl and they should bear in mind two things. The main relationships are serena nateblair rather than chuckblair or dan serena.
As promised, gossip girl unmasked its namesake blogger in the shows series finale monday night and the. A television series like gossip girl is built on its romantic pairings and scandals. In the finale, dan, having been left by blair for chuck, teams up with georgina in order to write his follow up to inside. Differences between gossip girl book vs tv show page 0.
And vanessa, wait, is that vanessa shopping at barneys with a. Personally, i think its tied to the label gossip girl gave serena at the end of season 2irrelevant. May 30, 2009 in the gossip girl tv series, who does serena end up with. Blair and serena end up hanging out together in sun valley, idaho. In the gossip girl books who does nate choose blair or. Christmas time in new york city has arrived and serena moves from dating superstar flow to vegan aaron when they all end up on a caribbean vacation with the. Apr 24, 2020 dan and serena barely have a relationship in the books. Gossip girl series finale recap hollywood reporter. December 18, 2012 by julia wayne 0 shares advertisement gossip girl season 6, episode 10 new york. In the gossip girl book,who does blair end up with. Tonight, fans of the cw hit soap heard those words for the last time ever, as gossip girl ended its sixyear run with new york, i love you xoxo, an epic final filled with. Serena is featured on the blog of the series mysterious narrator, gossip girl. Gossip girl was an incredibly successful cw show that ran for six seasons, receiving numerous awards and nominations along the way.
It was pretty much a fiasco from beginning to end, but probably the worst sin of all was how it turned dan and serenas once pretty adorable onoff. Next time do an article about stuff from the pll books that never made it to the. Gossip girl labelled serena this way because her status as the itgirl in high school was coming to an end. They could never do that for each other, which is why they didnt work. Who do serena and dan end up with in the gossip girl book series. Ranking the romances of gossip girl from best to worst. There are times in life where you need to stand up tall, swallow your pride. Nate plays a huge role and is the main love interest of both blair and serena.
The first novel, gossip girl, was released in april 2002. Another follow up novel, in which the characters return home from college for the holidays, was released in hardback format in november 2009. The show is based on the books but does not follow the same story line. In the vein of six feet under and life unexpected, gossip girl flashforwarded a few years for another headline event. Gossip girl was based off her experience growing up in new york city back in the 80s, but with a modern day spin.
Its always been an obsession, and over the course of my many encounters with the diverse gossip girl outlets, i have recognized the many alterations the tv show. It has also been adapted into a tv series airing on the cw and ctv. She is a main character in the gossip girl book series and the famous cw18 tv show of the same name. In the book, serena has a brief fling with dan, which is obviously not what happens in the show. So did chuck ed westwick and blair leighton meester end up together.