How the New ‘Gossip Girl,’ and the Rt of Teen TV, Got So Gay - WSJ

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WHICH GOSSIP GIRL CHARACTER IS GOG GAY?

Dan to the ncln that he isn’t gay, but mak no statement on whether he might be bisexual. Dan also experimented wh homosexualy, before he began datg Vansa Abrams. Why was so funny that Dan wrote Nate as gay his book?

Is beg gay really still somethg to lgh at and mock? At a dner, Gea lets slip to Serena and Lily that Eric is gay. At Asher and Jenny's party, he, along wh Blair, reveal Asher is gay too.

HOW THE NEW ‘GOSSIP GIRL,’ AND THE RT OF TEEN TV, GOT SO GAY

) is gog gay season five and tst , 's good.

It seems like Dan (Penn Badgley) took some major creative liberti wh his subjects "Insi, " his book about the UES—which Vansa (Jsi Szohr) published whout his knowledge—and ma someone gay!

We're gog to assume fans of the origal book seri by Cecily von Ziegar are thrilled by Dan's cisn, as Lonely Boy was sexually nfed for a few pag and Chuck was fact gay. Then aga, Dan easily uld have ma his own character gay...

GOSSIP GIRL: HOW THE REBOOT AVOID THE INFAMO DAN HUMPHREY PROBLEMSHOW CREATOR JOSHUA SAAN BREAKS DOWN THE REBOOT’S SURPRISG CHOICE FOR HOW TO HANDLE THE TULAR GOSSIP GIRL. SPOILERS AHEAD!BY YOHANA DTAJULY 8, 2021ELI BROWN THE GOSSIP GIRL REBOOT. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS ABOUT THE NEW GOSSIP GIRL. XOXO! WHEN THE ORIGAL GOSSIP GIRL CLOSED UP SHOP, ONE PLOT TWIST THAT ALWAYS RANKLED FANS WAS THE CISN TO REVEAL DAN HUMPHREY AS THE TULAR BLOGGER. LONELY BOY! OF ALL PEOPLE! IT DIDN’T MAKE SENSE, OF URSE, AND ’S BEEN A STICKG POT FOR VIEWERS EVER SCE THE SIX-SEASON SHOW END 2012. SO WHEN GOSSIP GIRL ALUM JOSHUA SAAN—A WRER AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ON THE ORIGAL SERI—GOT THE CHANCE TO HELM A REBOOT, HE SET ABOUT THKG OF A WAY TO RIGHT THIS ETERNAL WRONG. HIS SOLUTN? ESTABLISHG WHO GOSSIP GIRL WAS THE VERY FIRST EPISO. IN THE REBOOT, WHICH BUTED THURSDAY ON HBO MAX, ’S QUICKLY REVEALED THAT GOSSIP GIRL ISN’T ONE OF THE STUNTS, BUT RATHER A HANDFUL OF THE TEACHERS AT THE CONSTANCE BILLARD SCHOOL. THE PLAN IS HATCHED AS THE TEACHERS S THE LOUNGE, GROG ABOUT WORK. ONE OF THEM BRGS UP THE OLD GOSSIP GIRL BLOG AND THEY SH TO A PUTER, READG THE BYGONE POSTS AND MARVELG AT THE VOICEY GOSSIP HELD WH. “THE POSTS ARE LIKE A LOST EDH WHARTON NOVEL!” EXCLAIMS NEW TEACHER KATE (TAVI GEVSON). HOW NICE MT HAVE BEEN, SHE STARTS TO THK, TO HAVE A WAY TO EXERT POWER OVER ABSURDLY AFFLUENT, ENTLED, AND OCSNALLY CEL STUNTS, WHO N GET TEACHERS FIRED WH A QUICK LL TO MOMMY OR DADDY. AFTER A SHORT BATE ABOUT THE ICKY ETHICS OF DTG OFF THE GOSSIP GIRL MANTLE AND SPREADG GOSSIP ABOUT THE VERY STUNTS THEY’RE TASKED WH PROTECTG, KATE AND THREE OTHER TEACHERS ULTIMATELY CI, OVER THE URSE OF THE EPISO, TO BAND TOGETHER AND RELNCH THE BLOG. (BUT ON INSTAGRAM, OF URSE.) SAAN PLOTTED THIS NCEPT OUT YEARS AGO, PCHG TO ORIGAL SHOW CREATORS JOSH SCHWARTZ AND STEPHANIE SAVAGE AS A WAY TO THE REBOOT. SAAN, WHO GREW UP ON THE UPPER EAST SI AND WENT TO A FANCY, GOSSIP GIRL–QUE PRIVATE SCHOOL HIMSELF, WAS SPIRED BY IENDS OF HIS WHO TGHT THOSE SAME KDS OF SCHOOLS. “I ULDN’T LET GO OF WONRG WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE OM THEIR EY,” HE SAID A RECENT ZOOM LL. “I WOULDN’T DO THE SHOW IF I ULDN’T DO THAT.”IT WAS ALSO A WAY TO AMP UP THE APPEAL OF GOSSIP. IN THE POST–CRAZY DAYS AND NIGHTS, PRE–DX MOI WORLD WHICH HE WAS STILL WORKG OUT THE REBOOT NCEPT, SAAN WAS TERTED TAKG A 360 APPROACH TO THE BLD EM. “IT’S NO LONGER THE FUN OF JT A BLD EM,” HE SAYS. “WHY ARE YOU TELLG THE BLD EM? HOW DO YOU GET THE BLD EM? WHO’S TELLG YOU THE BLD EM?”PL, WAS ALSO A GOOD WAY TO AVOID THE DAN HUMPHREY CISN THAT PLAGUED THE ORIGAL SERI, STG EVERYTHG THAT ME BEFORE THE BIG REVEAL TO QUTN. SAAN IS SANGUE ABOUT FAN IRRATN OVER THE CHOICE, ADMTG TERVIEWS THAT WASN’T THE RIGHT CHOICE TO MAKE DAN GOSSIP GIRL. “WH DAN HUMPHREY BEG GOSSIP GIRL, SUDNLY EVERYBODY HAS REIGERATOR LOGIC AND LOOKS BACK LIKE, WHOA, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? HOW DID WORK?” HE SAYS. “OF URSE DON’T FULLY STA SELF BEE WE DIDN’T EXPECT TO EVEN REVEAL WHO GOSSIP GIRL WAS. IT WASN’T EVEN OUR PLANS FOR MANY YEARS. SO OF URSE DON’T LE UP BEE WASN’T LIKE WE STARTED ON DAY ONE AND SAID, ‘DAN IS GOSSIP GIRL.’“THIS TIME AROUND, I WAS LIKE, WELL, STEAD OF REIGERATOR LOGIC, LET’S MAKE THE DIENCE PLIC WHO GOSSIP GIRL IS,” HE ADD. IN THE PILOT FOR THE REBOOT, THE TEACHERS HAGGLE FOR A B OVER THE LOGISTICS OF HOW TO REVIVE THE BLOG. THEY TRY G TWTER BUT QUICKLY LE OUT. “TWTER IS A GLORIFIED CHAT ROOM FOR MEME SHARG, NSPIRACY THEORISTS, AND L-MANUEL MIRANDA,” ONE TEACHER M THE GOSSIP GIRL BRASTORM. “IF WE REALLY WANT TO GET ATTENTN, ’S INSTAGRAM ONLY.” SO, LED BY KATE, THEY LNCH AN INSTAGRAM ACUNT AND PLOT A WAY TO P THE POPULAR KIDS AGAST ONE ANOTHER, DIVIDG AND NQUERG ONE POST AT A TIME. “YOU READY TO TAKE THE POWER BACK, DO SOME GOOD, AND SAVE THE FUTURE?” KATE ASKS, NOT FULLY ENVISNG THE THORNS THAT MIGHT ENSUE AS SHE GETS TO KNOW HER STUNTS AND LEARNS THE FULL SPE OF THEIR HOMELIV. “THAT’S SOMETHG WE DIDN’T WATCH DAN GO THROUGH,” SAAN SAYS OF THE ETHIL DILEMMA. THE DIENCE NEVER GOT TO SEE HIM STGGLE WH THE IA THAT HE WAS THROWG HIS IENDS, HIS FAY, AND EVEN HIMSELF UNR THE B BY POSTG A GOSSIP GIRL EM. SAAN DIDN’T WANT SUCH AN EASY OUT THIS TIME AROUND. “ISN’T THAT TERTG TO THK ABOUT THE TIM THAT DAN POSTED [EMS] ON HIMSELF THAT WOULD HARM HIM BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE GREATER GOOD? 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