Welcome

Welcome into the life of Gossip Girl. Here you will find everything there is to know about the sacandolous lives of the upper east side and its inhabitants. Before we get started here lets get to know the characters:

BLAKE LIVELY plays SERENA VAN DER WOODSEN Former It girl of the Upper East Side and best friend of Blair Waldorf. Recently returned from a Connecticut boarding school for reasons unknown to her friends, as was her departure from Manhattan a year prior to the show's beginning. Serena van der Woodsen comes across as down-to-earth for someone from the UES, but things (relationships (Dan, Nate) and opportunities (fashion shoots)) seemed to be handed to her on a silver platter.

LEIGHTON MEESTER plays BLAIR WALDORF Queen bee of the social scene; a position she inherited from her best friend after Serena left New York. An only child, she is the daughter of a soon-to-be-divorced fashion designer mother and a gay father and is the longtime girlfriend of Nate Archibald although she became involved with Nate's best friend Chuck Bass in episode 007.

PENN BADGLEY plays DAN HUMPHREY A loner, he is the son of a rock musician turned art gallery owner, Rufus Humphrey, and the elder brother of Jenny Humphrey. Smitten with Serena, he finds himself immersed in her moon-eyed world where he is made to attend St. Jude at his father's bidding.

CHACE CRAWFORD plays NATE ARCHIBALD Torn between Serena and Blair -- both of whom he has romantic histories with, the so-called golden boy also frequently finds himself making life decisions based on the whims of his controlling father, Howie "The Captain" Archibald.

TAYLOR MOMSEN plays JENNY HUMPHREY A freshman at Constance Billiard with a desire to carve her own place in the in-crowd, Jenny is impressionable and quickly becomes the pawn of several characters. She also has a tight-knit relationship with her brother, Dan, which proves handy as she finds herself in frequent need of help.

ED WESTWICK plays CHUCK BASS Cynical and world-weary, Chuck has no qualms about living life on the edge and possesses near-sociopathic tendencies of abusing and manipulating others who get in his way. The childhood best friend of Nate, his reputation as a patron of baser habits make them complete opposites. Portrayed firstly as the 'bad boy' of the group, we start to see a different side of Chuck in episode 004 when he lends Nate 10K to get out of a shady poker game, and later in episodes 007-010, when he falls in love with Blair.

KELLY RUTHERFORD plays LILLIAN VAN DER WOODSEN The multiple-divorced, ex-ballerina, and socialite mother of Serena and Eric van der Woodsen, Lillian has a history as a former groupie of Dan and Jenny's father, Rufus, that she would rather not acknowledge.

MATTHEW SETTLE plays RUFUS HUMPHREY A former rock star whose marriage has fallen apart, he is also an owner of a fledging art gallery. Determined to give his children a quality education, he's enrolled them at private day schools which lead him to bump heads more than once with his former flame, Lillian van der Woodsen.