Once the production team saw the chemistry between Leighton Meester (Blair) and Ed Westwick (Chuck), they wrote the romance in. It made total sense, considering both characters were major schemers and had a compelling dark side that made them a natural pairing. (Sorry, Nate.) They decided that Chuck and Blair would be together forever, but in true teen soap opera fashion, they had to jump through more than a few hoops … like an ill-fated romance between Blair and Dan and Chuck’s struggle with the loss of his father, the dastardly Bart Bass. Said Josh, “That love story between those two characters was always one of the overarching stories of the whole show, and we knew that. As far as we pushed them, we always had to be able to find a way to bring them back together.”EvenGossip Girl (a lawyer for the city denied that she was forced to do so) in part because of thePost’scoverage of what Almontaster’sSalonop-ed — according to a game of “F, Marry, Kill” that Maddison played during a June 2019interviewonThe Zach Sang Show just a couple of months away, we’re beginning to get our hands on some of the promotional material, including incredible photos of Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens dressed up as their charactersSandy and Rizzo