While Gossip Girl fans may be torn between who they want Blair to be with, Leighton Meester is not.
"The one relationship I'd love to play out is Blair and Dan," she told TVGuide.com at the show's 100th episode party Saturday night. Penn Badgley (Dan) said: "I like the Blair [story line] because it's the most exciting for Dan as a person."
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Although it was a surprise to see the Queen Bee and Lonely Boy, who often butted heads, start to like each other, executive producer Josh Safran said the pairing has been likely to happen since the beginning.
"I wrote the first scene with them together in Season 1 ... and we knew at that moment there was something there," he said.
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But Blair and Dan getting together has a few major hitches...
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Here's what Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Safran doesn't — and won't — talk about when it comes to the show's fifth season: the identity of who is pregnant, a possible second glimpse of Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell (so impressed by Serena's knowledge of The Beautiful and Damned he handed her a summer job), Ivy, the whereabouts of the real Charlie (and if it even matters), the fall-out from Dan's Upper East Side-bashing book, Georgina, gone-but-angry outcast Vanessa ...
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Fortunately, some of those cliff-hangers will immediately be dealt with when Gossip Girl returns (Monday, 8/7c, CW). TVGuide.com instead got Safran's thoughts about why Blair has become the show's most interesting character (by far), what makes this season more fun than last (even if it didn't begin in Paris) and why Serena could wind up being the best movie producer ever:
At the end of last season, you said Dan (Penn Badgley) and Blair (Leighton Meester) were totally not over.
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Are Dan and Blair over already? Blair's blunt brush-off last week certainly made it seem that way, but this is Gossip Girl and there's just no way fans would be rewarded with so little pay-off.
That said, we've got some unresolved issues. Why do we care about Raina, again? Will Vanessa stop pining for Dan? And haven't all the lead actors said recently that they want to move on from the show?
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With these questions burning a hole in our gut, and just four episodes left this season, we turn to executive producer Joshua Safran, who gives TVGuide.com the dirt on that, as well as what to expect for Blair and her trio of suitors, whether or not Ben is really out of Serena's life, and where new girl Charlie fits in.
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"It's all about the work, you know. The feeling you get when you connect to the work," Ed Westwick, 23, told U.K. magazine Tatler. "And that's what I had with Chuck Bass in the beginning — I was fascinated by him. But now, to be completely honest, I'm ready to do something else. Really ready to...
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Oh, mommy! After a lengthy winter break, Gossip Girl is back and out for revenge tonight (9/8c, The CW). "Lily has a lot of people very angry at her," says exec producer Stephanie Savage, adding that Mama Van der Woodsen's role in the wrongful imprisonment of her daughter's former teacher and attempted sale of Bass Industries will drive stepsiblings Serena (Blake Lively) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) to unite tonight for some payback. But fret not, Blair fans ...
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