‘Gossip Girl’ Season 6 Preview: Plot, Cast, and Photos

Blake Lively in Gossip Girl
Blake Lively in Gossip Girl - © CW

We’ve come to the end of Gossip Girl with the arrival of season six. The series says goodbye to the gang with a 10-episode final season premiering on The CW on October 8, 2012.

The cast includes Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen, Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf, Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey, Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald, and Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass. Kelly Rutherford plays Lily van der Woodsen and Matthew Settle is Rufus Humphrey.

The Synopsis: Season four ended with Chuck Bass’s (Ed Westwick) heartbreaking decision to step aside and let Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) begin her new life as a Princess-to-be with her fiancé, Prince Louis (Hugo Becker). Meanwhile, Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), in sunny Los Angeles, was offered a fantastic summer job working for an A-List Hollywood director just as we discovered that Serena’s cousin, Charlie (Kaylee Defer), was the real actress in the family! Back in New York, a newly single Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) convinced Chuck to go on a hedonistic summer trip around the globe while Dan Humphrey’s (Penn Badgley) oldest friend went behind his back and found an editor to anonymously publish his autobiographical novel, “Inside.”

Season five opened in the City of Angels when a reenergized Chuck and Nate decide to pay Serena a visit. Back home, Blair learns that planning a royal wedding can be a royal pain, and Dan discovers the ramifications of writing candidly about his closest friends. Finally, the surprise return of cousin Charlie will threaten to destroy the Van Der Woodsen family from within.

Six years after the first blast, Gossip Girl continues for an unforgettable final season. As season six opens, Serena is completely off the grid. Her friends fear the worst but hope for the best … yet even they can’t imagine where they’ll find her. Blair has offered Chuck her heart, but is it enough to help win back his empire? Dan has written a new book that promises to make more trouble than the first, and this time he has no desire to be anonymous, and Nate is determined to reveal Gossip Girl’s true identity, thereby making a name for The Spectator — and himself.

Plus, Lily and Rufus turn on one another when Rufus makes a surprising new ally. And when Bart Bass, Jack Bass and Georgina Sparks show up to raise hell, it’s a fight to the spectacular series finale. Anywhere else it would be too much drama to handle, but this is the Upper East Side! So who comes out on top? That’s one secret I’ll never tell…. XOXO, Gossip Girl.