![]() ![]() And you can enjoy playing Spot The Celeb, from Rachel Zoe and Leigh Lezark to Sonic Youth (more on that later) and, er, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. In any one season of Gossip Girl, you’ll spy a pre-Marvel Sebastian Stan, a pre-Ritchie Armie Hammer and a non-singing Aaron Tveit before they went big in blockbusters. It’s impossible, in particular, not to mention the peerless Michelle Trachenberg’s returning guest role (as a cross between Cruella Deville and Catherine Merteuil): her single eyebrow raises alone, as she delivers biting line after biting line, is an absolute must-see. A whole bunch of future supporting stars for shows such as Brooklyn 99, Arrow and The Good Wife came via these mean streets of the Upper East Side. ![]() Questionable movie choices (and, quite frankly, terrible characters) in some cases notwithstanding, it brought us a whole new crop of beautiful young stars to obsess over (ok, just Heat magazine). Like The OC before it, the show catapulted a bunch of lesser-known teens to stratospheric fame and surfaced some serious talent. Ryan Reynolds), Ed Westwick (Chalet Girl, White Gold) or Leighton Meester (Country Strong)? Chances are, without Gossip Girl, you may never have. The castĮver heard of Blake Lively (The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, Mrs. Around the same time, the gossip and blogging industries collided (fun fact – the book series on which the show is based pre-dates Perez Hilton) and the books – a series chronicling the lives of a group of filthy rich Manhattan teens, told through the eyes of an anonymous gossip blogger a Fitzgerald drama for the 21st century – were so of the moment it was a gift to any producer. Once that had drawn to a close, the producers needed a new group of over-privileged teens to capture the zeitgeist. ![]() The OC: sun-drenched surf country populated with improbably beautiful teenagers (and their DILF parents) playing out small-time dramas against big-time budget houses. “You know you love me,” she smirks at the end of each episode, and we’re here on the 10th anniversary of the seminal show chronicling the ups and downs of the Upper East Side’s not-so-guilty rich to celebrate the ten reasons why we do. I’m talking, of course, about Gossip Girl. With a whiff of something scandalous (ok, probably DKNY New York) and the promise of something elite, her updates became addictive over the six years her observations survived the writers’ strike and her popularity predicted the rise of social media. 10 long years since she snuck tantalizingly into our lives. ![]()
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