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  "path": "/books/2026/2/gossip-girl-an-oral-history",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "  Leighton Meester and Blake Lively filming a scene for _Gossip Girl_ in New York City, 2008.\n\n##### In a new book, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Sebastian Stan, and other members of the cast and crew recall the fan-frenzy surrounding the aughts-defining show\n\nBy Lindsay Denninger\n\n“When we first started filming, people would walk by and ask, ‘What are you filming?’,” Leighton Meester, who played Blair, told _The Hollywood Reporter_ in 2012. “Once we aired [in 2007], the whole mania started.”\n\nIt wasn’t long before _Gossip Girl_ ’s New York City sets were mobbed with fans trying to get a glimpse of their favorite char­acters. “We were shooting on the Upper East Side one afternoon and must have been outside three all-girl schools. Within an hour, ten girls multiplied to 300. I mean, we weren’t the Beatles,” Chace Crawford, who played Nate, added. “Ed Westwick, [READ ON",
  "title": "Gossip Girl: An Oral History"
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