Leighton Meester Was a Fan of Blair and Dan’s First Kiss on ‘Gossip Lady’

Leighton Meester is reacting to one of the vital stunning scenes in Gossip Lady historical past.

Meester revisited her time on the CW present that ran for six seasons from 2007-2012 in a latest phase of Bustle’s “Icons Solely” sequence, the place stars guess their most memorable traces all through their appearing profession.

The season 4, episode 17 scene in query reveals Meester (who performed Blair Waldorf) conversing with Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), who suggests the 2 ought to kiss to see if their relationship is strictly platonic or one thing extra.

“Blair, we saved us a secret as a result of we had been afraid there was one thing extra,” Dan says within the scene whereas strolling nearer to Blair.

“You should return to Brooklyn,” she replies.

“Not till I do know for certain they had been improper … that there’s nothing between us.”

“I can assure it,” she remarks. “However simply so that you simply’re safe in that information, what did you take into account?”

“Only one kiss. Then I can know surely,” Dan solutions.

“I suppose that will work. One kiss that’s that,” Blair says, moments main as much as the kiss.

The clip pauses, and Meester has to guess what she says proper earlier than Dan and Blair lock lips. “He throws up? I don’t know what I say subsequent. Let’s consider one thing. ‘Pucker up, cutie!’ Do I say that?” she solutions appropriately.

Meester then defined why she loved the scene between the 2 characters, noting that that they had good banter with one another. 

“I did like that,” she mentioned after watching the clip. “There was banter, nevertheless it was extra like, they had been retaining a secret however I don’t know – simply – it’s cute.”

Like Meester, a number of followers within the remark part of the video additionally agreed with the lovable second.

“after all leighton ships the superior couple,” one consumer wrote. One other added, “they had been essentially the most emotionally mature couple on the present.”

Whereas — spoiler alert — Dan and Blair didn’t instantly discover their relationship additional after that epic kiss second, they did begin relationship in season 5. They broke off their relationship on the finish of the season after Blair chooses to rekindle issues along with her ex-boyfriend Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick).

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Extra lately, Meester has been engaged on her upcoming function in season 2 of Netflix’s No one Need This, a Netflix rom-com sequence starring her husband Adam Brody, and Kristen Bell, who narrated Gossip Lady. Throughout her recent interview with Bustle printed Could 28, the mother of two defined why she’s extra selective with the roles she takes on. 

“It’s been actually, very beautiful to do a few reveals the place there may be that feeling of: there may very well be a future there,” she mentioned. “However I don’t know.”

“Individuals are at all times asking, ‘What do you need to do? The place do you see your self? The place do you need to go?’ And I’m like, I do not know. I don’t know if it’s motherhood or this present state of affairs or this enterprise,” she added. You type of can’t be like, ‘I do know what I am doing three years from now.’ I’m simply, like, okay proper now.”

Meester continued, “I simply really feel like being within the second and figuring it out as I am going alongside, as a result of that’s all we are able to do, you recognize?”