Gossip Girl Facts
37 Mind-Blowing Gossip Girl Facts to Celebrate the Show's 10th Anniversary
![The show shifted production across the country for Lively. Gossip Girl moved from NYC to Los Angeles so Lively could film Oliver Stone's Savages in 2012.
Lively used to send Leonardo DiCaprio pictures of dolls?! Lively and DiCaprio dated for a few months in 2011, and their relationship sounds . . . unique. "We learned a lot from Blake. When I think about shooting the L.A. episodes, Blake was dating [DiCaprio] at the time, and she had this thing where she had a doll that she took photos of that she sent to Leo," Safran explained. "Blake was way ahead of the curve. It was pre-Instagram. She was documenting her life in photographs in a way that people were not yet doing."
Filming was actually really hectic. According to Lively, they "were creating three episodes at once sometimes, we were given our lines at the very last minute, we didn't know where our characters were going; there was no planning or arc. . . . It almost felt like a sketch show. We were basically sort of reading off of cue cards. There were people taking pictures the whole time and paparazzi jumping in front of the cameras — it felt like we were part of a cultural experiment."
A teenage hacker from Russia leaked a ton of scripts. During the show's fourth season, scripts started ending up online after a Russian hacker got into a writer's email account. "All season, our scripts were ending up online, and we couldn't figure out how," one of the producers said. "We hired a private investigator. We didn't understand what was happening, because everything was getting leaked, every detail. . . . A teenager, I think either [from] Russia or Bulgaria, had hacked one of the writer's e-mails, and was selling scripts on eBay. But they were underage, so they couldn't be prosecuted. It was a f*cking production nightmare. We would have to 'X' out every script. We would have to print on red paper. . . . It was like there was a 'Gossip Girl' in our system."
Dan wasn't always going to be Gossip Girl. Both Nate and Eric van der Woodsen were first considered by the writers earlier on in the series.
Ed Westwick probably didn't watch the finale. In an email asking Westwick about his favorite plotlines or memories from the show, he replied, "I still am not sure who GG was lol."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/PBxhl7GSXUI2IdSGy2SOLyQaA2U/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2017/08/30/666/n/1922283/0ec9caa4bca193e2_TCDGOGI_EC033_H/i/show-shifted-production-across-country-Lively.JPG "The show shifted production across the country for Lively. Gossip Girl moved from NYC to Los Angeles so Lively could film Oliver Stone's Savages in 2012.
Lively used to send Leonardo DiCaprio pictures of dolls?! Lively and DiCaprio dated for a few months in 2011, and their relationship sounds . . . unique. \"We learned a lot from Blake. When I think about shooting the L.A. episodes, Blake was dating [DiCaprio] at the time, and she had this thing where she had a doll that she took photos of that she sent to Leo,\" Safran explained. \"Blake was way ahead of the curve. It was pre-Instagram. She was documenting her life in photographs in a way that people were not yet doing.\"
Filming was actually really hectic. According to Lively, they \"were creating three episodes at once sometimes, we were given our lines at the very last minute, we didn't know where our characters were going; there was no planning or arc. . . . It almost felt like a sketch show. We were basically sort of reading off of cue cards. There were people taking pictures the whole time and paparazzi jumping in front of the cameras — it felt like we were part of a cultural experiment.\"
A teenage hacker from Russia leaked a ton of scripts. During the show's fourth season, scripts started ending up online after a Russian hacker got into a writer's email account. \"All season, our scripts were ending up online, and we couldn't figure out how,\" one of the producers said. \"We hired a private investigator. We didn't understand what was happening, because everything was getting leaked, every detail. . . . A teenager, I think either [from] Russia or Bulgaria, had hacked one of the writer's e-mails, and was selling scripts on eBay. But they were underage, so they couldn't be prosecuted. It was a f*cking production nightmare. We would have to 'X' out every script. We would have to print on red paper. . . . It was like there was a 'Gossip Girl' in our system.\"
Dan wasn't always going to be Gossip Girl. Both Nate and Eric van der Woodsen were first considered by the writers earlier on in the series.
Ed Westwick probably didn't watch the finale. In an email asking Westwick about his favorite plotlines or memories from the show, he replied, \"I still am not sure who GG was lol.\"")
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