On the CW television series Gossip Girl, based on the popular series of young adult novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and executive produced by Josh Schwartz (Chuck), the privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side learn from the blog of the all-knowing, albeit ultra-secretive, Gossip Girl (voiced by Kristen Bell) that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) is back in town. Serena’s closest friend, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan.

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