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(From left) Blake Lively and Penn Badgley in New York City in 2008.
CNN –
Hey, Upper East Siders. “Gossip Girl” here.
Penn Badgley was spotted on Wednesday during his SiriusXM podcast “Podcrushed” discussing a certain iconic wedding scene from the finale of the CW original series “Gossip Girl,” and of course the topic came to his real-life ex-girlfriend Blake Lively Language.
Badgley played Dan Humphrey on the series and his co-hosts wanted to know if it would be difficult to film the scene since the couple had already broken up off-camera.
“I certainly don’t think it was embarrassing for anyone,” Badgley said of filming that scene, adding, “From my memory, I’m pretty sure we were exes for almost half of the entire series. “
The wedding scene was featured in the 2012 final episode of the series, in which Lively’s Serena Van Der Woodsen married Humphrey – who was affectionately known throughout the series as the “lonely boy” and was revealed to be Gossip Girl in the finale.
“We’ve always been very professional,” Badgley said on the podcast. “We had to do all sorts of crazy things” – including a marriage of convenience. “In my memory there wasn’t an ounce of strangeness, it wasn’t even a thing.”
According to Badgley, his real-life relationship with Lively spanned a two-year period while they starred in the series. Lively is now married to actor Ryan Reynolds and Badgely is married to singer and actress Domino Kirke.
“Gossip Girl” first debuted in 2007 and ran for six seasons until 2012. The film was based on the book series of the same name by author Cecily von Ziegesar and followed the privileged lives of teenagers on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
“Everything on this show was about relationships in some form, so I feel like we were all in every configuration imaginable,” Badgley said on Wednesday, adding that “the finale after that was a little bit for me in a lot of ways “After so long, it almost felt like it was an afterthought.”
Well, lonely boy, it’s still on our minds. XOXO.