Spoilers from E!Online - Season 3 to Introduce Serena’s Dad
Amy in Pittsburgh: So excited Gossip Girl is back in production! What can you tell us?!
Sorry, Hilary Duff haters, but Duff joins the Gossip Girl cast as movie star Olivia, and she’ll be getting her movie-star cooties on the entire cast, not just Vanessa and Dan. Also on Gossip Girl this season, Chuck and Blair are totally getting married and having a million babies. (OK, not that, but they are staying tight. Yay!) And believe it or not, the show really is trending away from “Dan and Serena are the one true pairing of Gossip Girl.” Certainly, that arc might turn back sometime in the future, but for now the show is trying to establish their separate identities, apart from their on-again, off-again shenanigans.
Gervase in Montreal, Quebec: Thanks for the interview with Blake Lively about Papa van der Woodsen. Are we actually going to see Serena’s dad this season on Gossip Girl?
TV Diva’s Magic 8-ball says: It is decidedly so. We will finally meet Serena’s dad this season on Gossip Girl.
Since the beginning of Gossip Girl, Serena (Blake Lively) and Eric’s (Connor Paolo) father has never really been mentioned — other than in stories of their mom’s various husbands and escapades. It has been revealed that he runs the same Dutch shipping firm his great-great-grandfather created in the 1700s but other than that, he remains a big mystery. But that just might change as the teen drama heads to its third season.
According to Eonline.com’s Kristin Dos Santos, “It is decidedly so. We will finally meet Serena’s dad this season on Gossip Girl.”
When we last saw Gossip Girl, Carter Baizen revealed to Serena where her father is and so she planned to go to Fiji to find him. There is no word yet on who might score the role of Serena’s dad but the van der Woodsen kids have already pitched in some suggestions.
“Brad Pitt,” Blake Lively exclaimed when asked about who should portray her father. “Or maybe [he should be cast] as my new boyfriend.”
Her on-screen brother, Connor Paolo, on the other hand, was a little bit more realistic.
“We’ve been asking since day one who daddy dearest is, so it’ll be good to find out,” Connor Paolo said. “I’d say Christopher Walken could make a great dad. I think he’d be a great papa van der Woodsen. I think [his and Lily's] dynamic would be awesome. I’ll push that one. Or maybe Jack Nicholson.”
While Jack Nicholson, 72, may be a little too old to be his father, Paolo argues that it’s possible given Lily’s taste in men.
“I think, with Lily, he could be dad,” he asserted.
Meanwhile, fans will be pleased to know that Gossip Girl has already began production for the new season. Check out some updates and photos here.
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