This post was written by Youyoung Lee and Lindsay Soll.The first paragraph contains a possible spoiler — well, probably not, for reasons Youyoung and Lindsay explain, below.
This morning, news traveled through the online community faster than a text-blast on the CW’s Gossip Girl: New York Daily News gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe called out little Eric van der Woodsen as the Upper East Side’s crown prince blogger. (In response to PopWatch’s query about the Daily News story, a CW publicist at first declined to comment, then issued this teasing statement: "We don’t know where this rumor came from, but invite everyone to check out Monday night repeats to look for clues to Gossip Girl’s identity themselves.") Given that we rate the likelihood of Serena’s little brother being the G.G. in real life at only 1:11 odds — among other reasons, it’d take a pretty sick 14-year-old boy to wear a voice modulator to sound like Kristen Bell (pictured) and also, what patient on suicide watch is allowed to surf the Internet? — we figured this might be a good time to round up all the usual suspects on the show.
Chuck Bass: 6:9
Highly likely: Snarky, vindictive, and mysteriously/conveniently absent. One might be deterred by the final episode’s shot of him texting Gossip Girl with news of Blair’s infidelity, but more likely he was messaging Alfonso, his manservant, because god knows he does not actually write those items himself.
Jenny 2:7
Eh. She’s got a chip on her shoulder and something to prove, and sure, she’s the perpetual outsider and sneaky enough to get away with it (as when she eavesdrops on Serena and Dan in their Brooklyn loft). But poor girl is too wobbly on her knees to provide the level of snark of G.G.’s voice. Plus, she values her status as the young socialite in Constance Billiard’s cool clique too much to jeopardize it (proof: stealing Eleanor Waldorf’s bolero to fit in, kissing drunk men at Marquee).
Minority Twins 13:14
Our money’s on these two: If Nancy Drew novels taught us anything, it’s that the snitch always comes from within. And it’s always the quiet ones. Bonus: The twins are perpetually the perfect picture of shock when reading G.G. texts, as if they had prepped for hours in advance.
Dan 2:11
Nah. If scenic shots of him lounging around hisWilliamsburg pad are are any indicator of his favorite pastimes, he’stoo busy watching Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious (Yellow) while juggling the Kama Sutra and studying for a spot at Dartmouth to be concerned with any gossip-mongering.
Nate 1:10000000
He’s pretty to look at, but can he actually spell?!?
Blair 1:20
She’s definitely not as innocent as she seems(i.e. indulging in sexploits, pie-scarfing bulimia, and manipulation).But only Blair’s most scandalous trysts get publicized online, sendingher further down the rabbit hole instead of promulgating her higher upon the throne.
Serena 3:11
Possible. A friend concocted a theory that S.is secretly out to get B., edging her closer and closer to insanity byway of social ousting, manipulation, and blogging. But if that’s thecase, let’s give her props by bequeathing S.’s hair with its ownspin-off too, called The Mane Event.
Vanessa 4:20
Too obvious. Okay, she apparently owns herown apartment and has a suspicious arsenal of techie equipment (videocameras, snow-making machines). The girl may fulfill the most importantrequirements to be a rat, but in the UES — as G.G. herself once opined— "appearances can be deceiving."
PopWatchers, who do you have your odds on? And do you even want to know who the real Gossip Girl is?
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Why can’t it be some random onlooker? Played by Kirsten Bell? Sorry, I just want her in the show somehow. ha.
Check the schools enrollment for a V. Mars.
In the books it’s starting to become clear that Gossip Girl is (SPOILER!) Serena
I think it is the twins as well. I really dont want to know. it makes it more fun :p
okay… well i’m pretty much going to disepoint most of you…but… i read ALL the book ( 12 of em’ )and…sorry but even i don’t know who she or he is…:(
at one point you might know who he is since they presume its Chuk…but its NOT… and enyways…there is this new series coming out in may 2008 about the Carlyle triplets(book 11) & gossip girl so if we knew who the gossip girl is… it would spoil the books to come…
i say its serena….meny reasons…why don’t you read the books and figure it out yourself…
Will somebody please give Kristen Bell her own show?! The best all-around actress going and no show?! Unbelieveable…. “No Veronica, No CW”!
I hope it’s not Serena. I like her.
Seriously, Kristen Bell rocks every scene she’s in. Can we just talk about how we want Kristen Bell on this show, beyond voice-overs?
It’s Gossip Girl not Gossip Gay Guy
I’ll give Rufus a solid 4:9. Apparently he is around at the most improbable times so he obviously doesn’t have a job. He thought being rated as one of the Top-10 has-beens is actually cool and he wins any game of Two Degrees of S/B/N/C/Whoever hands down. Going for two: Blair Light is his daughter. But then again, do we want to know, or even care?
i agree with rosie. i wish it could just be some anonymous person lurking in the shadows instead of someone on the inside…and that lurker could be none other than kristen bell. seriously, i don’t really care for her character on heroes…kill her off that show and put her on gossip girl.
I haven’t missed a minute of GG since its premiere and I always assumed the site runner was a Perez Hilton-like onlooker who used, believe it or not, gossip to chronicle the lives of “the Manhattan elite” as she puts it and gets forwarded picture messages from her friends. I really hope it’s Kristen Bell at that they can convince her to leave Heroes and do a guest spot on this show!
in the books, most readers would bet Chuck or perhaps B but the author herself has said that it doesn’t matter who the blogger is as the identity of the blogger is beside the point. Now I know this isn’t the books but I agree with Cecily von Ziegesar — even in the show the identity doesn’t matter what matters is that she is razor sharp.
If you’ve read all the books, it seems virtually impossible that any of the main characters could be Gossip Girl. Some of them appear to be her at some points, but it always becomes clear later on that they aren’t. I think that GG is supposed to remain a mystery, more of a hypothetical person who sees and hears everything rather tha one of the main characters.
Love Gossip Girl
plain and simple, it’s sooo jenny humphrey.Period.<3
xoxo,kim
Okay, a lot of you are saying it’s Serena. Not to be rude, but why would Serena put up pics and a story about SERENA buying a pregnancy test? Hate to burst your bubble . . . but it’s my job!
what about Georgina? think it might be her…?
what about Georgina? think she could be GG…?
what about Georgina? think she could be GG…? idk.
Well. I didn’t read the books, but for what I saw in the last 16 episodes, it seems very likely that G.G. is G, for Georgina.
nelly yuki duh.
can someone help me with the titles of gossipgirl books. I can only find 11. and I know there are more then that!
Please:)
GG<3
Okay, this is kind of obvious…
its everyone, they all send in the gossip they see. so they all make up GG.
and if it wasnt, i have a feeling its blair. because in scenes where she is talking but you can see her, it totally sounds like gossip girl…
obviously its Nelly Yuki babe.
I heard that its dorota, blair’s maid. also, i think that it could be georgina since she once said to serena that she knows things before she does…