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Girls of Gossip Girl
Blair, Serena, Jenny, Vanessa, Lily, and all of the rest of our favorite Gossip Girl ladies!
Meester was decked out in Cartier jewels, a BCBG Max Azria dress and raved about her Dior spectator pumps, "my favorite thing in my closet." Szohr confessed: "To be totally honest, I'm in Forever 21 and these are Steve Madden."
In the book series, she has a shaved head and wears all black attire; in the TV series she has curly hair and has a very bad fashion sense.
In the book series, Vanessa loses her virginity to a guy who works at the club her sister Ruby plays at; they also dated briefly. In the TV series she is still a virgin.
In the book series, she wasn't long time best friends with Dan, since in the books she just moved to NYC from Vermont when she was 15, he is disinterested in her in the first book, because he's always smitten with...
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Differences between the novels and TV series:
In the books, her sibling Erik (spelled Eric in TV series) is older (three years), heterosexual, and attends Brown University; in the TV series, he’s younger (two years), a high school student, and gay.
In the books, Serena came home from boarding school because she got kicked out for not returning for the beginning of senior year; in the TV series, the television version of her sibling, Eric, attempts suicide, compelling Serena to return home (in her junior year).
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Differences between the novels and TV series:
Blair's mother is a wealthy hostess in the book, she is a designer in the TV series.
In the book Blair has blue eyes while in the TV series, Blair has brown eyes.
Blair has a cat named Kitty Minky in the book. It is note worthy, though, that in the TV series, Roman, her father's lover, named their cat Cat, in reference to 'Blair's favorite movie'
Blair's mom dresses very strangely in the books, whereas in the TV series, she is a fashionable woman.
I'm feeling a bit guilty today over the death of Estelle Getty. No, I had nothing to do with it! It's just that for the nearly ten years I've been running the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame, her character of Sophia ...