Does the Original Gossip Girl Cast Show up in the HBO Max Reboot?
Where to Stream: Gossip Girl (2021) Powered by Reelgood  HBO Maxs new drama Gossip Girl doesnt exactly pick up where the CW original left off, but the two shows are definitely connected. Not only does this new series follow the scandalous lives of Manhattans elite, but  as viewers will soon realize while watching the new Gossip Girl  the original Gossip Girl blog is the inspiration behind the new one. While lamenting how unruly the teens of Constance Billiard and St. Judes have become, a new crew of millennial teachers learn that the students used to live in fear of Gossip Girls ire. A former classmate of Serena (Blake Lively), Blair (Leighton Meester), Nate (Chace Crawford), Dan (Penn Badgley), and Chuck (Ed Westwick) turned teacher at the school clues her coworkers in on the legend of Gossip Girl. They, in turn, decide to launch their own version of Gossip Girl, and the drama begins. And was that classmate-turned-teacher  Rebecca Sherman  a character we met during the original Gossip Girl run!?! Nope! At least none of the core quintet have appeared in any of the new Gossip Girl episodes sent to critics by HBO Max yet. Furthermore Gossip Girl 2.0 creator Jonathan Safran has revealed that he didnt want any of the original Gossip Girl stars to cameo in the first season of the reboot. Safran told The Daily Beast: The audience would never accept these [new] characters if they were in the shadow of the original charactersTheyre already in the shadow of the original characters, but if the original characters were there with them in some way, why would you want to briefly get to know Zoya if you suddenly can see Nate?  Safran added that there will be some cameos from original Gossip Girl cast members, but none of the series regulars. For now. The last we saw of Chuck and Blair and Dan and Serena and Nate within Gossip Girl canon would be in 2017. A time jump five years into the future during the 2012 finale confirmed that Chuck and Blair stayed married at least long enough to have a son named Henry. Dan and Serena also wed in 2017 and Nate, a successful media magnate, was mulling a mayoral bid. What we can conjecture from what Kate Keller and others say within the new Gossip Girl seems to suggest that Nate Archibald did indeed run for mayor of New York City. The fact that she calls him great hints that Nate might have actually been a good politician who made life in the city better. (If nothing else, I think we can all agree that Nate Archibald would have made a better mayor than DeBlasio.) Dan Humphrey is also known as a great novelist in 2021-era Gossip Girl. However, he does get a dig for being pubbed in the New Yorker as a high school student. So we know that Nate is great and Dan a literary titan. Thats unclear. Chuck and Blair havent yet been namechecked outside their insane saga on the blog and we have no idea if those two fairytale marriages are still going strong. Fingers crossed Gossip Girl gets a Season 2 for us to find out! Sort of! Rebecca Sherman is the name of the woman in the teachers lounge who shares the legend of Gossip Girl. She is played by actress Sarah Baskin, whom did not appear in the original Gossip Girl. However Rebecca Sherman is a canonical Easter egg connecting the Gossip Girl reboot with the original. ( Which the production confirmed to Decider. We first meet Rebecca Sherman when she makes a knowing quip after Tavi Gevinsons Kate Keller bemoans the state of the schools student body. This school produced great people! Kate says. Caroline Kennedy, Colson Whitehead, Nate Archibald.  Its not like Nate Archibald was such a saint when we started, Rebecca says before deftly pulling up the original Gossip Girl blog. As it happens she was in the Class of 09, same as the original Gossip Girl crew. (IRL Colson Whitehead went to Trinity and Caroline Kennedy to Brearley and Convent of the Sacred Heart.) Rebecca Sherman is namechecked in 2009s The Goodbye Gossip Girl, the Gossip Girl Season 2 finale. Chuck, Blair, Serena, and Nate have learned that the real Gossip Girl is amongst them and try to figure out who in the student body it might be. Rebecca Sherman is the first person named. Chuck pulls up her Facebook page, where we see an image that looks kind of like a young Sarah Baskin. Although 2021 Rebecca tells her co-workers everyone thought she was Gossip Girl, thats not true. In fact, she gets immediately written off as a possibility because her heads always in a book.  So nice try, Rebecca. You might have gone to school with Nate Archibald and Serena Van Der Woodsen, but you were not cool enough for people to think you were Gossip Girl. Where to stream Gossip Girl (2021)