Blake Lively isn't at tonight's Emmys, but the 10-year anniversary of her appearance there with her Gossip Girl co-star Leighton Meester was on her mind. “They wanted us all to wear the same clothes that we’re wearing on the show.
If reports from some gossip magazines are true, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester's friendship was about as tense as the one between their characters, Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. Even Matthew Settle and Kelly Rutherford, who played Rufus Humphrey and Lily van der Woodsen, were rumored to be dating at one point.“They wanted us all to date,” Lively told the outlet. They were just too different.
Leighton Meester's 10 Best Looks Ever on Gossip Girl. From the moment they met, it was clear that Meester and Lively weren’t going to be friends. “They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair. News of the reboot has had fans going back and reexamining everything that they knew about the show and its cast.Often times, real life doesn’t imitate art. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io People could buy into this world.” It ran from 2007 to 2012 for six incredible seasons.
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Leighton Meester talks new show Single Parents and life beyond Blair Waldorf in this week's PorterEdit. Matthew Sprout/PorterEdit. Lively and Meester have expressed an openness to playing the parts again in the past.Lively, meanwhile, has said multiple times she'd consider playing Serena again. They wanted that, because then it fed their whole narrative. Yet the second they’d be on set together, it’s as if they were.” There was no animosity between the women, they just simply weren’t each other’s cup of tea.“We were all chill.
ELLE participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Alyssa Bailey is the news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). “Blake is very much in the moment,” writer Joshua Safran once told Though the girls may not have gotten along, they were great at pretending that they did.“Blake and Leighton were not friends,” Safran continued. Leighton Meester talks Gossip Girl, motherhood & new TV show Single Parents: While the world still obsesses over Gossip Girl – and those outfits – Leighton Meester has been quietly evolving her career on stage and screen. From the moment they met, it was clear that Meester and Lively weren’t going to be friends. They were just too different. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester really weren’t friends off set…and that's just the start of the 20+ fascinating facts the cast revealed for the show's 10-year anniversary. Leighton Meester named her baby Arlo Day so I think she beats Blake Lively in the weird baby name category — Kristen (@kristytipsen) September 24, 2015 And so the rivalry begins.
What made the show even better is the fact that it starred the likes of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, and Taylor Momsen. It was cool,” Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Georgina Sparks, told the outlet.Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford, who played Chuck Bass and Nate Crawford, decided to live together in Chelsea once they started filming.“Initially Ed and I became roommates here in New York because we didn’t know if the show was going to last or not,” Their friendship really blossomed at an Arctic Monkeys concert.“We had these girls coming up to us, and they were kind of freaking out about it: ‘Oh, we Though few friendships may have blossomed from the show, relationships certainly did.Penn Badgley, who played Dan Humphrey, dated Lively in real life, Meester dated Sebastian Stan, who played Carter Baizen, and Westwick and Jessica Szohr, who played Vanessa Abrams, also spent some time together.