What's the Difference between Gossip Girl the Book and Gossip Girl the TV Show?
| In the Book |
In the TV Show |
Serena van der Woodsen
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Serena van der Woodsen
Portrayed by: Blake Lively
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Dan Humphrey
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Dan Humphrey
Portrayed by: Penn Badgley
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Blair Waldorf
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Blair Waldorf
Portrayed by: Leighton Meester
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Gossip Girl Book vs TV Show
| In the Book |
In the TV Show |
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Dan is a smoker. |
He doesn't smoke. |
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Blair attends Yale. |
Blair fails to get into Yale, and first goes to NYU, then Columbia.
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Lily van der Woodsen is married to Serena's father. |
They are divorced and Lily married both Bart Bass and Rufus. |
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Chuck and Dan attend Riverside prep and Nate goes to St. Judes. |
They all attend St. Judes.
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Vanessa is a goth girl who is overweight. |
She is a bohemian and is slim. |
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Jenny is an aspiring artist. |
She wants to be a fashion designer.
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Serena has a very brief fling with Dan. |
Dan and Serena are on again off again throughout the entire series and end up getting married. |
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Blair has a younger brother named Tyler. |
She is an only child.
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Nate has a drug problem. |
He is a weed smoker, but doesn't have a problem. |
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Jenny is a brunette with large breasts. |
She is blond with smaller breasts.
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Erik van der Woodsen is three years older than Serena. |
He is two years younger. |
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Vanessa goes to school with Blair and Serena. |
She is home schooled.
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Dan and Vanessa met when she moved from Vermont at 15. |
They were childhood friends and then Vanessa left town. She returned when they were 16. |
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Serena left for boarding school because she ruined her relationship with Blair by having sex with Nate. |
She left because after a party a guy she was with died after doing cocaine with her.
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Chuck's parents are married. |
Chuck thinks his mother died in childbirth. |
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Serena and Nate had sex for the first time in his parent's bed. |
It was in the bar at a wedding.
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Rufus is a retired editor of Beat poetry. |
He is the frontman of 90s, one hit wonder, Lincoln Hawk. |
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Chuck has a brother and a cousin. |
He is an only child.
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Dan loses his virginity to Vanessa. |
He loses it to Serena. |
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Dan is a poet. |
Dan is a writer.
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Chuck never has a girlfriend. |
He is in love with Blair and eventually marries her. |
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Vanessa has a shaved head. |
She has long hair.
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Dan experiments with homosexuality. |
He is straight. |
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Blair and Serena have a sexual fling. |
They do not.
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Nate hates Chuck. |
They are best friends. |
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Blair loses her virginity to Nate. |
She loses it to Chuck.
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Chuck is bisexual. |
He is straight, although he does kiss a man on one occasion and indicates that he may have done it before. |
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Blair and Nate only start dating when they are in High School. |
They have been a couple since they were young children.
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Erik is straight. |
He is gay. |
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No one likes Chuck. |
He is friends with all the main characters.
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Gossip Girl remains anonymous. |
Gossip Girl is revealed to be Dan. |