Blair- Serena's best friend who dated the groom. It literally makes no sense. After being an It Girl for a long time, Serena decides she wants to make her new found cousin Lola Rhodes the next star. This causes Serena to declare war on Gossip Girl, using Nate's power at the Spectator, and Dan. Serena decides to go with Carter to meet him before she leaves to attend Brown University in the fall. Serena, angered at Dan's accusation, confronts Blair's clique and tells them that the next time that they mess with Dan, it has to go through her first. (5x11), "I love you, Dan Humphrey. There is no way someone, as smart and focused on their image as Blair is, wouldn't have applied to other schools as backup, given how insanely competitive Yale is. He had then realised that he could never pull her out of her world and into his, so he found a way to enter her world by creating a UES blog. New York University (NYU) is a private college largely located in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan but with divisions in Brooklyn and around the world. Pete joined Georgina and Serena for a scandalous night of illegal substances in New York City and during the series, Serena feels extremely bad for what happened and the guilt haunts her. Sage uses every chance she gets to sabotage her father's relationship with Serena, and proves herself to be on par, scheming-wise, with Georgina and Blair. Throughout the series, Serena has an on-again, off-again relationship with Dan Humphrey and the two have the longest running relationship on the show; spanning from Pilot to their marriage in the season six finale, New York, I Love You XOXO. The episode was written by Amanda Lasher and directed by Norman Buckley. He successfully gets Lily to write him a check but Ben threatens him to get the money back, which Vanessa witnesses (While You Weren't Sleeping). However, the series finale had a time-jump of five years, in which the group reunited for Serena's wedding with Dan. Jenny's growing feelings for Nate also threaten her relationship with him when she makes every effort to steal Nate for herself. Her mother, a former model from Georgia would dress her differently and her differing fashion choices drew the attention of her classmates from the L.A. private school she enrolled in. So that kind of lends itself to Blair's view that Serena has to be the centre of attention all the time and can't let anyone else shine. Chuck- tried to rape the bride and the grooms sister on the same day. At Fashion's Night Out, Blair and Serena stage a fight to expose Juliet's plotting and she is removed as Keyholder while Serena is given admittance. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. As Serena and Lily prepare Charlie for her debut into New York society, Dan tells Serena that he is going to tell Blair how he feels about her. The couple's return to New York (Never Been Marcused) has them returning to old issues as Dan struggles with the differences in their lifestyles and eventually is unable to deal with those differences. One incident occurs during Nate's "assassin" birthday bash. The Ending Of Gossip Girl Explained. Manhattan, New York City, NY A stubborn Serena chooses to stay in prison, until Dan bails her out and the two go to prom together. Her Tory Burch designed dress in the pilot earning the 2nd spot on the list. However, Chuck and Serena track them down, and Serena decides to take the blame for releasing the video that ruined Blair's wedding and marriage (The Backup Dan). Serena's storylines often surround her disastrous relationship choices and her struggle to find where she fits in the world outside the Upper East Side. Gossip Girl aired from 2007 to 2012, causing the world to become entranced with the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite. Serena takes the train in from New England, arriving at Grand Central Station with nothing more than the clothes on her back, a purse, and a small . Her decision slowly damages her relationship with Nate as she reconnects with Carter who is back to his old habits. A newly single Chuck helps her with ideas to break Serena and Nate up, which ends in Serena catching Jenny trying to kiss Nate. CW. Serena is, in the chapter, described as a "Golden girl" who lives for attention and love, and dramatically ends things with Dan. After six seasons, fans said goodbye to Dan, Serena, Chuck, Blair, and Nate. XOXO. Due to watching her mother's many failed marriages, Serena has issues with truly committing to a man and understanding what real love is, but that seemed to disappear when she married Dan. Her mother and father are on the boards of all major charities and art organizations in the city. Nasha Smith. But you were the love of my life, Dan. Revival of the TV series centering on a new generation of New York private school teens using social media to spread gossip. The van der Woodsens reside at 994 Fifth Avenue, a ritzy, white-gloved doorman building directly across the street from The Met and Central Park. Ziegesar has said openly that the school in "Gossip Girl" is based on the New York school, Nightingale-Bamford. However, her plan fizzles out and they are unable to find GG's identity. Felt Bad: Pete Fairmont. She has Dan publicly ostracized throughout the school. On Thanksgiving, Dan and Serena host their first dinner together but all ends when Dan releases the mean chapter he wrote on Serena. Her motives are rarely selfish and her negative actions are oftentimes generally motivated by a lack of foresight rather than real malice. Georgina is most likely one of the most hated characters on the show. Stream Gossip Girl (2007) on HBO Max. That would never fly today. "[27] Serena's relationship with Carter earns the disapproval of her peers but discovers redeeming qualities in him. -Much 'I Do' About Nothing (1x18), "Hey, it's me, Serena. Later, she runs into Charlie and convinces her to move with her back to New York. Georgina Sparks (frenemy)Ivy Dickens (frenemy)Juliet SharpMaureen van der BiltSage SpencePoppy Lifton Vanessa Abrams Wanting revenge, Lola asks Serena to help her take down Lily but Serena asks her to stay away. Enemies: Blair goes through with her wedding anyway, even after Gossip Girl launches a video of Blair professing her true feelings to Chuck. Charlie helps Serena find out that Dan and Blair have had a secret romance, causing a fight between Serena and Blair. 's client list to invite celebrities to Chuck's new hotel bar opening party, but is angered when Chuck and Blair deliberately call the cops on the party and the clients are photographed leaving the scene. On Eric's birthday, Damien returns to blackmail him for money, since he knows about Lily's perjury. At the same time, her job is threatened by the book when she loses a major movie deal over her portrayal in the book (Memoirs of an Invisible Dan). Not too long after, Serena and Lily return to New York where Lily plans to tell Rufus her secret: that she has cancer and has been seeing William for treatment. After being stuck in a supply closet, she kisses Nate, despite him being in love with Serena, straining their relationship further. I'm like, 'Oh, this is absurd. Why was Lily and the whole clan able to forgive William for giving her fake cancer? Serena is seen spending her summer in Paris with Blair, reluctant to tell Blair that she has enrolled in Columbia, something that Blair fears will have them return to their high school pettiness, when she receives news that Chuck might be dead. Thinking he did this to get her in trouble, she invites Carter to help ruin Chuck's new business deal, which they accomplish and they begin to casually date (The Freshmen). She's often seen to be friendly and will befriend anyone, such as when she talked to an out of place Dan at the party where they first met. 2. They find her with Steven and after they confront her, she decides to return to Manhattan (Gone Maybe Gone). She is described to have an effortless way about her. At the end of Double Identity, the closing scene shows Juliet's apartment is filled with screenshots of Gossip Girl's website, but the main attraction is Serena's mugshot. In the thirteenth novel, she decides to stay in New York to be with Nate, but at the end, he leaves to not get in between her and Blair. Serena sleeps over at Dan's and wake up to find themselves in a compromising position, one that Jenny photographs and sends to Gossip Girl. Serena makes the connection between Max and Charlie when she remembers that Max's ex-girlfriend's name was Ivy. This is revealed to be a set-up brought about by Nate, Serena and Nate's grandfather as a way for Tripp to admit that he was behind the accident thinking that Nate was going to be in the car instead. [18] Exposing herself to New York's high society, she meets Poppy Lifton, a socialite, and further strains her relationship with Blair during Eleanor Waldorf's fashion show when she and Poppy participate in it. Soon after, Nate reveals to Blair that he slept with Serena before she left town and as a result, Blair begins to ice Serena out of her world (The Wild Brunch). The show was considered a bit risqu at the time, at least for a teen show, but fans ate it up. Serena is a tall, blonde, slim, and beautiful teenage girl from the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. In the series finale New York, I Love You XOXO, Serena discovers Dan was Gossip Girl all along, but decides that it was really a blessing in disguise as it made her realize New York is where she belongs. The plot nearly works until Jenny, Blair, Nate and Chuck scheme against William, who had been trying to frame Rufus for adultery and intentionally misdiagnosing Lily, and William leaves. Gossip Girl is returning to HBO Max with a new reboot premiering July 8, featuring 10 juicy hour-long episodes featuring the . Later that day, Serena attends Lily and Bart's rehearsal dinner, but after Lily learns the real story, she takes Serena to meet with Pete's parents and absolve her guilt. As the school year begins for New York's elite, a new student at Constance St. Jude's finds herself thrust into the spotlight, while a mysterious presence threatens to shake the status quo. After they arrive at the party, a game of Assassin begins and eventually culminates in Jenny and Nate being the only two players left. After a chain of events, Serena discovers Lola is her sister due to William and Carol having an affair while he was still married to Lily. Scared of what will happen next, Serena goes to Blair and tells her the major secret Georgina has on her: that she killed someone. Blair knows it was her, but decided to let it go because she figured she was still angry about her kiss with Dan. Shocked at seeing Serena at the school, Blair accidentally ruins her interview but is able to bribe her way into the party. Meanwhile, Chuck discovers that Lily is planning to sell Bass Industries, and wrongfully assumes it's going to his father's old associate, Russell Thorpe, a Chicago businessman who is newly arrived in town. -Dan, "Well, you can't be worse than the guys I do know." Things take a turn for the worse when Serena's old frenemy, Georgina Sparks, returns to town. Upon arriving home, she rejects romantic advances from both Chuck Bass and her best friend Blair Waldorf's boyfriend, Nate Archibald. When she was 12, she did a print ad for Gap. Psych Majors: Georgina Sparks. After the vows are said, Serena, Dan and Nate confront Georgina and she blames each of them in a vague manner before leaving. The Los Angeles Times noted her character's penchant for secrecy but stated "It initially seems as though Bad Serena is back, but we all know her highway of crazy behavior is always paved with good intentions. [19] Serena and Blair eventually reconcile during a trip to Yale, where she didn't originally want to apply to but then took the opportunity to do so after Blair told her she couldn't possibly get in. Serena ultimately moves back to the UES with Steven, and his jealous daughter Sage. Knowing Blair is the only one who can stop him, Serena convinces her to talk Chuck into coming home. Serena accepts. Later that day, Jenny confirms it by finding a hotel key to Carter's hotel room in Serena's purse. Before she leaves, Dan begs her to stay but she refuses and leaves anyway. Toward the end of the season, Serena begins a relationship with Gabriel Edwards (Seder Anything), a man who seemingly left his girlfriend, Serena's friend Poppy, for her. Serena impresses Dean Berube and is given an invitation to a private reception at his home. Thank you, though." When Gossip Girl first started, Blake Lively's Serena Van der Woodsen was front and center. On the day of graduation, Gossip Girl sends a blast that further ruins Serena and her friends' reputations. Gossip Girl is known for bringing out the worst in its characters, and Dan and Serena are prime examples. She clashes with Chuck while they stay together and he tells Rufus that she did not leave for school. -Touch of Eva (4x4), "College is just high school with more expensive books." Serena getting into Brown and Yale was ludicrous. Following this, Serena finds out that Blair was arrested at her own bachelorette party, and rushes to her aide. Later, Blair becomes upset when she finds out that her mother has given Serena and Poppy front row seats at her show and Serena will not be backstage with her as usual. Gossip Girl is a tool to destroy. The holidays have Serena trying to figure out how to release Ben from prison and her relationship with Lily is yet again strained. All this queen wants is a golden ticket to Yale. Upset, she is told the time wasn't right for her blog, but she ultimately discovers that Nate had it shut down as a favour to Gossip Girl. [38] She, however, won the award again in 2011. Sending a text to Gossip Girl, Serena calls a bluff that she knows Gossip Girl's identity, only for Gossip Girl to escape and warning everyone that she'll be pursuing them in college. When she was a little girl, she loved the banana splits at Serendipity. Her mother and father are on the boards of all major charities and art organizations in the city. Later that night, after Charlie's debutante party, Serena receives a call from Nate that Blair and Chuck have been in an accident. On the tenth anniversary of the CW's flagship series, Gossip Girl's actors, producers, and crew members reflect on the frenzy, contemplate the series's lasting impact, and, yes, dish on its . He then teams up with Blair to take Georgina down and they succeed. However, wanting to separate Serena and her dad, Sage ruins the show on purpose but fails at breaking up Serena and Steven (Dirty Rotten Scandals). Nate eventually reveals his tryst with Serena to Blair, and Serena is ostracized in the first few episodes of the show. After getting a job at the beginning of summer, Serena is working on a film set in Los Angeles. Serena Celia van der Woodsen is the fictional character and the protagonist in the Gossip Girl novel series and in its TV adaptation, in which she is portrayed by Blake Lively.Serena is featured on the blog of the series' mysterious narrator, "Gossip Girl". The writer of the show confirmed that Serena. After a chance meeting at the hotel where she is staying with Lily, Serena meets Dan Humphrey and the two begin a romantic relationship (Pilot). At first they suspected the doorman but Georgina had Milo loop footage on their indoor cameras so they now believe it's a ghost. Louis has his suspicions that Blair is only going because she believes he is a royal and when they arrive to pick up the girls for the date, Jean-Michele is introduced as the royal. She knows how people's minds work. Some say love is all around us. She stops them in time and Jenny decides to stop pursuing him (Dr. Estrangeloved). A frustrated Amanda leaves and Dan lashes out at Serena, who is innocent of the incident, and tells her that she should own up to her real self. Blair and Chuck defend Serena, and the group banish Juliet from Columbia and Manhattan. Wasnt Serenas dad an alumni to brown or Columbia? After being committed involuntarily to the Ostroff Center (Gaslit) when she is hospitalized for an overdose of recreational drugs and antidepressants caused by Juliet, Serena admits to Dan that he was the one she came to kiss the night she was drugged. Though exposed and aware of the on-goings in the fashion world, she, unlike Blair, is not as meticulous about her fashion choices and wardrobe. Is there a real van der Woodsen family? After seeing them hug at a dinner alone, Serena tells Blair, who informs Headmistress Queller and the parent committee. Serena refuses the proposal, insisting Tripp won't agree to the idea. She's also jealous that Blair was made the star of Dan's book over her. Soon after, Jenny is drugged at a Waldorf Designs fashion show and is saved by Nate, leading to her developing feelings for him despite knowing he is with Serena (The Empire Strikes Jack). Heartbroken over his accusation, she reveals that her real reason for killing his movie was to protect him, not herself, then walks away. When Dan posted on Gossip Girl that he and Serena shared a sibling: The CW. Nate kicks Jenny out of the apartment to reconcile with Serena, spurning Jenny's advances. Blair reluctantly teams up with Chuck and a reformed Georgina, ignoring Lily's wishes that they let her handle it herself, ending with the plan completely back-firing: Serena is arrested, Poppy escapes and Georgina, becoming the scapegoat, eases back into her old ways. Elsewhere, Chuck believes he has found his mother, whom he spent his whole life believing was deceased. More Schemes. At the wedding reception, Serena admits to Dan that she kept the relationship longer than she had to because she was still in love with him (G.G.). He made me realize I don't want to run away, that you guys are my family and I belong here." The bad advice leaves them to attend the French Ambassador dinner separately, Serena brings Damien Dalgaard, an old friend, as her date and Nate went alone but ended up hanging out with Jenny Humphrey. A depressed Serena is last seen leaving the city with one of Damien Dalgaard's drug dealers, a flashback to her days before she returned to the Upper East Side in season one. With Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford. Afterwards, Serena stays with Dan, and the two fall asleep in his bed. It was, then it changed when all the good lit professors went to Yale. 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