Gossip Girl Big Reveal Could Be Entirely Different (Maybe Even Less Infuriating)

Anyone who watched Gossip Girl through to the end will remember that the one and only Dan Humphrey turned out to be the same Gossip Girl.

The show’s writer Joshua Safran, who worked on the project for its first five seasons, said in an interview that the Gossip Girl blog was originally intended to be written by Nate Archibald, not Dan Humphrey.

According to the writer, it would have been better not to reveal the name of the author of the anonymous blog, but otherwise Nate would have been more suitable for the role of Gossip Girl.

The character was cast before Safran left the project, and there were hints that Nate might start a blog out of guilt over cheating on Blair Waldorf with Serena van der Woodsen:

“It was Nate until the day I left. I think we all came to the conclusion that it might be Nate by the end of Season 4, and then we spent Season 5 teeing it up. If you watch it, there are many clues to it being Nate.”

Viewers did not appreciate the ending of the project where it was revealed that Dan is Gossip Girl. Many said that the show ended in an implausible way, to say the least. Some even called for the final episode to be reshot.

Although it turns out that Dan was not originally intended to be Gossip Girl, there were perhaps unintentional hints since the pilot that he was the anonymous one.

For example, in the first episode, Serena returns from boarding school and gets noticed. It's a little suspicious that Dan is the only other major character in Grand Central Station, right around the time viewers first hear about Gossip Girl.

Also, Dan is always around the other characters, sometimes in the background, but always close enough to overhear conversations that he could use for his own purposes.

Source: The Daily Beast