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Blake Lively / Serena Van Der Woodsen

Remind me: It-girl Serena Van Der Woodsen, whose arrival at Grand Central Station kicked off Gossip Girl’s reign. Xoxo.

What she’s done since: Forget the Upper East Side: Blake’s career has been all about Hollywood. Blockbuster moments include 2016’s The Shallows, 2018’s A Simple Favour and 2020’s The Rhythm Section. She's currently on working on the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us.

In the time since Gossip Girl ended Blake has also married Ryan Reynolds and the pair have gone onto have four children together.

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Leighton Meester / Blair Waldorf

Remind me: The headband-wearing sass-talking Blair Waldorf, self professed queen bee of Constance Billard School for Girls.

What she’s done since: Leighton worked on Fox’s Making History, starred in Netflix's The Weekend Away and was the lead in ABC’s Single Parents. Right now she's a recurring character on Hulu's How I Met Your Father. She also married Seth (Adam Brody) from The OC, which has to be the TV crossover of the century. The pair have two children together.

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Penn Badgley/Dan Humphrey

Remind me: Outsider Dan Humphrey who *spoiler alert* is eventually unmasked as Gossip Girl.

What he’s done since: 2018 saw Penn take on serial killer and master manipulator Joe Goldberg in Netflix’s You, a role that thrust him back into the spotlight. Season four came out earlier this year and the fifth season is currently in production. Prior to that came small roles in NBC’s The Slap and film The Paper Store, which is on Amazon Prime.

Penn launched a podcast last year called Podcrushed with co-hosts Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari.

Since 2014 Penn has been in a relationship with Domino Kirke and the pair welcomed their first child together in 2020.

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Chace Crawford / Nate Archibald

Remind me: Nate Archibald, the privileged serial dater who gives off lost puppy vibes.

What he’s done since: After picking up a few jobs here and there (including a one-off in Glee), Chace struck gold playing Kevin The Deep in Amazon Prime’s uber successful superhero show, The Boys, which has had three seasons, btw.

He's also starred in the film Inheritance alongside Lily Collins.

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Ed Westwick / Chuck Bass

Remind me: Anti-hero Chuck Bass, whose on-again-off-again relationship with Blair has been meme'd a thousand times over.

What he’s done since: Playing the lead in 2016’s Wicked City was followed by a role in the TV adaptation of Snatch (2017). More recently, he played Vincent in BBC’s White Gold, which ran for two seasons.

He's currently in a relationship with model Amy Jackson.

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Taylor Momsen / Jenny Humphrey

Remind me: Social climber and drama-inducer Jenny Humphrey, Dan’s younger sister, who idolises Blair and Serena.

What she’s done since: Taylor swapped role playing for rock music, and is now the lead singer of band The Pretty Reckless. Their most recent album, Death By Rock and Roll, came out in February 2021.

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Jessica Szohr / Vanessa Abrams

Remind me: Jessica played Vanessa Abrams, Dan Humphrey’s friend and eventually girlfriend from his past who infiltrates his new life on the Upper East Side.

What she’s done since: Jessica has had recurring roles in everything from Complications and Kingdom to the US version of Shameless and Twin Peaks. Most recently she's had a lead role in the series The Orville, which is currently on its third season on Disney+.

In 2019 Jessica began dating ice hockey player Brad Richardson and the pair welcomed their first child in January 2021.

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Connor Paolo / Eric Van Der Woodsen

Remind me: Serena’s younger brother Eric Van Der Woodsen, who attempts to stay out of the drama (and succeeds, mostly…)

What he’s done since: After playing Declan Porter in the successful Revenge between 2011 - 2015, Eric’s next recurring role came in 2017’s Business Doing Pleasure. In the last few years he's starred in a number of films including Distancing Socially, Ambush and The Young Wife.

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Michelle Trachtenberg / Georgina Sparks

Remind me: Georgina Sparks, an old frenemy of Serena who gets into more trouble than the rest of the characters put together.

What she’s done since: After playing Anna in 2015’s Guidance, Michelle landed roles in 2018’s Robot Chicken and as the voice of Judy Reilly in Facebook Watch’s Human Kind Of. In 2021 she began her own web series 'Meet, Marry, Murder' and in 2022 she reprised her iconic role of Georgina Sparks in the new Gossip Girl reboot for two episodes.

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Kelly Rutherford / Lily Van Der Woodsen

Remind me: Serena and Eric’s mum Lily Van Der Woodsen, who has relationships with both Dan Humphrey’s dad and Chuck Bass’s father Bart.

What she’s done since: Kelly has been in a LOT. She played Cynthia Phillips in Being Mary Jane, followed by Claire Hotchkiss in Pretty Little Liars spin-off The Perfectionists and Melissa Daniels in Dynasty.

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Matthew Settle / Rufus Humphrey

Remind me: Dan and Jenny’s dad Rufus Humphrey, who starts seeing Serena’s mother Lily while their children are dating.

What he’s done since: This and that, but mainly roles in small time films including Ouija (2014), Marshall’s Miracle (2015), The Faith Of Anna Waters (2016) and Valentine (2017).

Dusty Baxter-Wright is an award-winning journalist and the Entertainment and Lifestyle Director at Cosmopolitan, having previously worked at Sugarscape. She was named one of PPA’s 30 Under 30 for her work covering pop culture, careers, interiors and travel, and oversees the site’s Entertainment and Lifestyle strategy across print, digital and video. As a journalist for the best part of a decade, she has interviewed everyone from Louis Theroux and Channing Tatum to Margot Robbie and Ncuti Gatwa, while she has also spoken on Times Radio and BBC Radio. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram here.

Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer

 Lydia Venn is Cosmopolitan UK’s Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer. She covers everything from , to the latest celebrity news. She also writes across our work/life section regularly creating , covering exciting new releases and sharing the latest must-haves. In her role she’s interviewed everyone from Margot Robbie to Niall Horan, and her work has appeared on an episode of . After completing a degree in English at the University of Exeter, Lydia moved into journalism, writing for the , before working as Features Editor at , where she spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Talk Radio. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of Gilmore Girls and 00s teen movies, and in her free time can be found with a margarita in hand watching the Real Housewives on repeat. Find her on .
 

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