1. Long before Penn Badgley and Blake Lively played the hapless lovers in the series, they were in the same homeschooling class in their childhood. Badgley and Lively were lovers between 2007 and 2010.
2. Penn Badgley’s name comes from a tennis ball company called “Penn.”
3. Badgley recorded a pop song at the age of 12 before starting acting. (But this song was never released.)
4. Taylor Momsen was 7 years old when she took on her first role. She played Cindy Lou Who in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” starring Jim Carrey.
5. When Taylor Momsen turned 8, she wrote a song called” Blackout.” This song was released years later by Heidi Montag.
6. Leighton Meester turned his hair dark, which was natural yellow, ahead of auditioning for the role of Blair.
7. This project was originally expected to be a film, and Lindsay Lohan was being considered for the role of Blair.
8. Serena’s full name is Serena Celia van der Woodsen. The author of the book series is Cecily von Ziegesar.
9. The Manga version of the “Gossip Girl” book series is also featured.
10. Ed Westwick, who portrayed Chuck, had originally auditioned for the role of Nate.
11. The producers at first did not want Ed Westwick for any role. That’s because he’s more like a serial killer than a romantic lead. Ed Westwick’s favorite movie in real life is “American Psycho.”
12. Although we’ve always seen GG girls sitting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum, in real life, unfortunately, they’re not allowed to sit here.
13. Penn was about to quit acting when he took on the role of Badgley Dan. He twice declined this offer before being persuaded to accept the role.
14. Ed Westwick, who is British, took the example of Carlton Banks, who appeared in “the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” for Chuck Bass’s American accent in the series.
15. Blair’s sign is Scorpio. Serena’s a lion.
16. In the second season, Serena is shown a Myspace profile where she shares photos of her trip to Buenos Aires. The user name is ServdW.
17. The exterior shots of the penthouse apartment where the Humphreys lived were done in Dumbo. But in the pilot episodes, it was mentioned that the family lived in Williamsburg. In the series, after New York Magazine reported on the Dumbo-Williamsburg confusion, the area where Humphreys was sitting began to be named simply as Brooklyn.
18. Humphreys’ 455 Water St. home address is the address of a park in Lower Manhattan.
19. When the series began, Serena and Chuck were living at 455 Madison Avenue, namely the Palace Hotel.
20. Leaving the hotel, the van der Woodsen family moved to a real building, the Milan condominium. The price of a three-bedroom penthouse apartment at the Condominium in Milan is $ 6.8 million.
21. Although the Humphreys have shown a “middling” image because they live in Brooklyn, property prices on the Upper East Side and Dumbo are around $ 1,400 a square foot.
22. Costume designers created Audrey Hepburn for Blair’s style, and Sienna Miller and Kate Moss for Serena’s style, taking samples.
23. The role of Georgina Sparks was originally offered to Mischa Barton, but unfortunately, she turned it down.
24. Lily’s name was originally going to be “Darla,” but the producers made that name change at the last minute.
25. There were rumors that there would be a spin-off of this after Jenny went to boarding school, but instead, Taylor Momsen left the series to pursue her music career.
26. Katie Cassidy, who stars as Serena’s archenemy and Nate’s girlfriend Juliet, is the daughter of David Cassidy, who appeared in “the Partridge Family.”
27. On the show, Chuck had a dog named Monkey. In the book, Chuck has a monkey.
28. Cecily von Ziegesar loved the television adaptation of all the characters except Vanessa. In the book, Vanessa is a skinhead and a character who wears only black.
29. The producers spent between $ 10,000 and $ 60,000 per day of filming in New York City.
30. Matthew Settle and Kelly Rutherford, whom we watched as Rufus and Lily on the show, dated once in real life.
31. If the spin-off work, which was thought to be based on the story of Lily and her sister, but was later canceled, was organized, it would make a connection between the two series by also featuring the younger versions of the characters we saw in The O.C. In real life, we can say that the two shows were connected again. Leighton Meester married Adam Brody, Seth Cohen of The O.C.
32. The Empire Hotel, owned by Chuck in the series, is a hotel in real life. After the followers of the series began to gather at the hotel, the bar of the hotel started to organize Gossip Girl themed cocktails. One of them is “XOXO,” where they never say the secret of mixing.
33. Eric Dawan, the costume designer of the series, won the Emmy Award for his designs in “Sex and City.” Dawan has come together with Charlotte Russe for fans who can’t buy the super-luxurious outfits of the characters in the series, creating an inspired creation from Gossip-Girl.
34. Blake Lively tried to be seated in Serena’s wedding dress one day after marrying Ryan Reynolds.
35. The mayor Michael Bloomberg declared January 26 as “Gossip Girl Day” in New York. Bloomberg, who said that Gossip Girl contributed to New York and visited the set of the series, took part in the series with a small role in the final part.
36. William Baldwin, whom we watch as Serena’s father, William, avoided meeting Blake Lively before filming to portray the fractured father-daughter relationship in the series.
37. One fan of the series managed to sneak into a shoot at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to appear as a sideshow in the filmed scenes.
38. In the series finale, we finally see Blair and Jenny fixing the relationship between them. Jenny carries a bag branded “J by Waldorf” in the final episode. According to Stephanie Savage, one of the series’ creators, this means that Jenny has created a brand of her own from Blair’s company.
39. It was almost revealed in the pilot episode that Dan was “Gossip Girl.” That’s because Dan was writing at the time the outside voice started. This scene, in which viewers at the test screening assumed Dan was Gossip Girl, was later removed.
40. The producers and writers of the series always knew that Blair and Chuck would be together in the finale.