Long before they played star-crossed lovers Dan and Serena, Penn Badgley and Blake Lively were home-schooled together as children.
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The project was originally supposed to be a movie and Lindsay Lohan was slated to play Blair.
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Costume designers modeled Blair's 2019s look after Audrey Hepburn and Serena after Sienna Miller and Kate Moss.
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In the show, Chuck has a pet dog named Monkey. In the books, Chuck has an actual monkey for a pet.
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When the show was criticized by the Parent Television Council for being mind-blowingly inappropriate Cevery parent nightmare those phrases were used in promotional p
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Dan was almost revealed to be Gossip Girl in the pilot episode; in a test screening, audiences assumed that Dan was GG because of a shot where he's typing as the voiceover happens, so they edited
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Penn Badgley didn't know that Dan was Gossip Girl until right before they shot that scene.
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Chuck and Blair were always planned to end up together.
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Taylor Momsen's first role at age 7 was as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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The on-screen adaptations of the characters were all close to the original characters in Cecilia von Zeigler's books. All but Vanessa. She was meant to be bald and wear all black.