As a disembodied voice on a deliciously soapy CW drama once said, "If two people are meant to be together, eventually they will find their way back.”
That's coincidentally what happened for Leighton Meester, who met fellow teen drama alum Adam Brody in 2011, toward the end of her six-season run playing Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl. Although she didn't realize that he was the One at first.
Noting that there's such a thing as a "false starts" when it comes to relationships, she reflected on a February episode of former costar Penn Badgley's Podcrushed podcast, "It turns out that was my husband the whole time. But I think I just had to see about a couple of other people first. Now, I go like, ‘Why did I do that? That was the wrong move, obviously.' But was it?”
Not only did a few other dates not get in the way of forever—she and Brody married in 2014 and share two children—but their road eventually led back to Gossip Girl herself, with Meester joining the cast of her husband and Kristen Bell's hit rom-com series Nobody Wants This.
But this case is the opposite of a tangled web, with Bell telling Extra in February 2025 that bringing The OC heartthrob's real-life wife on board "just seems natural and wonderful."
Meanwhile, though Meester, who's turning 40 on April 9, got her happy ending, did Blair when she married Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) at series' end?
And, for that matter, was surprisingly prolific blogger Dan Humphrey, played by Badgley, truly meant to be with Blake Lively's Serena van der Woodsen?
"I think they ended up with who they were meant to be with," Badgley observed on Podcrushed, to which Meester agreed, "I think you're right."
Happily, the actors who played this privileged lot haven't done too shabbily for themselves, either, since the series ended in 2012.
Though sometimes looking for answers only leads to more questions, and sometimes you’re better off not knowing, this is not one of those times. So, read on and find out what the stars of Gossip Girl are up to now:
The actress who portrayed It Girl Serena van der Woodsen has been keeping very busy since the end of Gossip Girl.
Lively and Ryan Reynolds tied the knot on Sept. 9, 2012, and share four children: daughters James, Inez and Betty and son Olin, born in 2023.
Since the end of 2024, the star of The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, A Simple Favor and more has been embroiled in a legal battle with It Ends With Us actor-director Justin Baldoni since accusing him of misconduct and retaliation. He countersued for defamation but his suit was dismissed by a judge in June 2025.
A judge also threw out 10 of Lively's 13 claims, including sexual harrassment, in April 2026 but the warring parties are still slated to go to trial in May.
In an April 3 Instagram Story, Lively wrote, "The constant packaging of this lawsuit as a 'Celebrity Drama' is not only irresponsible, but it is by design: to keep you from seeing yourselves in my story. The physical pain from digital violence is very real. It is abuse. And it's everywhere."
Following his run as Dan Humphrey (who, spoiler alert, was ultimately revealed to be Gossip Girl), Badgley went to an even darker onscreen place playing stalker Joe Goldberg on the hit Netflix series You.
In real life, however, the actor who romanced Lively on and off-screen early in GG's six-season run is a family man.
He married Domino Kirke in February 2017 and they've since welcomed three sons, including twins born in September 2025.
The actress who played privileged Upper East Sider Blair Waldorf continued to be the toast of movies and TV, now starring on the CW/Stan series Good Cop/Bad Cop.
Meester married actor Adam Brody in 2014 and they're parents of a daughter named Arlo, born in 2015, and a son born in 2020, whose name they have not shared.
“I wouldn’t change anything [about her time on Gossip Girl] because I’m happy where I am now,” Meester told PorterEdit in 2018. “And I think that that’s one of the many wonderful parts of not only having a child and meeting your soulmate, but also I feel really lucky career-wise, really in a place that I want to be.”
After graduating from the role of Nate Archibald, Crawford starred on ABC's Blood & Oil, and appeared in films such as Eloise, All About Nina and Reunion.
The native Texan has played Kevin (aka The Deep) on Amazon's dark superhero satire The Boys since 2019.
The English actor rose to fame as Blair's beloved Chuck Bass and after hanging up his character's signature scarf, he went on to play Tybalt in 2013's Romeo & Juliet and starred in 2015's short-lived ABC drama Wicked City.
In the fall of 2017, the Los Angeles Police Department started an investigation into sexual assault allegations made by several women against Westwick, which he denied. In July 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney declined to prosecute after determining there wasn't enough evidence to file charges in two instances and a third accuser failed to cooperate with investigators.
Originally a star of the 2018 Agatha Christie adaptation Ordeal by Innocence, Westwick's scenes were reshot in the wake of the allegations.
After sorting out his personal troubles, Westwick married longtime girlfriend Amy Jackson in Italy in August 2024 and they welcomed son Oscar in March 2025. He joined Jackson's son Andreas, from a previous relationship, in the family fold.
Little J has come a long way since her days trying to snag a place in Blair's crew. Momsen was just 14 when she starred as Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl, though she left the show in 2010 as music was her ultimate passion from an early age. She went on to form her band The Pretty Reckless when she was 17.
As for a potential return to acting? "I never say never anymore in life, especially now with all the curveballs the world is throwing everyone," she told E! at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards, her first red carpet in five years. "But no immediate plans."
In her personal life, "I’m a very, very trusting person,” Momsen said on a November 2025 episode of Call Her Daddy. “I’m a very guarded person at the same time. So, anyone I let into my life—in any form of a relationship—there's a life bond there.”
Szohr burst onto the Hollywood scene with her breakout role as Vanessa Abrams in GG. Since that time, the actress has appeared in films The Internship, Ted 2 and Two Night Stand. She's also been on TV shows Kingdom, Shameless and The Orville.
She gave birth to daughter Bowie Ella with hockey pro fiancé Brad Richardson in January 2021 and the pair went on to tie the knot in August 2024.
The snarky voice of Gossip Girl—who returned for the 2021 reboot—turned out to be a bit misleading, considering the dirty laundry-airing blog's real author.
But Bell has been on a more straightforward path, sharing daughters Lincoln and Delta with Dax Shepard, her husband since 2013, and becoming a go-to face of Hollywood as the now three-time host of the Actor (formerly SAG) Awards.
After GG first signed off in 2012, Bell reprised her titular role in a 2014 film and the 2019 revival of Veronica Mars, as well as starred on NBC's The Good Place, fronted the Bad Moms films and provided the voice of Anna in Disney's Frozen franchise.
Since 2024, she has starred opposite Leighton Meester's real-life love Adam Brody on Netflix's Nobody Wants This.
Remember when Bucky Barnes was on was on Gossip Girl? That's right, the actor appeared in 11 episodes of the CW series as bad boy Carter Baizen from 2007 to 2010 and dated Meester during that time.
Stan has since become a household name thanks to his role as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in the Captain America and Avengers films. He also starred on Disney+'s The Falcon and Winter Soldier opposite Anthony Mackie and in Hulu's Pam & Tommy.
In 2025, Stan won a Golden Globe for his performance in A Different Man as an actor who has an identity crisis after undergoing surgery to repair a facial deformity. And weeks later he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his turn as Donald Trump in the 1980s-era origin-story biopic The Apprentice.
IRL, the Romanian-born actor has been dating Annabelle Wallis since at least 2022.
In her six-episode arc on DD, the Disney Channel alum played Hollywood star Olivia Burke, who sparked a romance with Dan while at NYU and infamously engaged in a threesome with the not-so-Lonely Boy and his BFF Vanessa.
Duff has since starred on the likes of Younger and How I Met Your Father, though a Lizzie McGuire revival headed for Disney+ was scrapped,
The "So Yesterday" singer shares son Luca with ex Mike Comrie and three daughters, Banks, Mae and Townes, with husband Matthew Koma. They tied the knot in 2019.