If you've seen the last episode of Gossip Girl, it looks like Blair (Leighton Meester) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) have both reached brand new lows, Blair slowly coming to terms with not going to Yale and Chuck reeling from being rejected by Elle.
After pictures of Blair kissing Chuck flooded the net yesterday, E! Online now reports that Meester was also seen in the same outfit and the same afternoon kissing a different co-star – Chace Crawford, who plays Nate. Some critics described the event as a stunt to throw off Gossip Girl viewers.
Spoiler ahead:
Publicity stunt or not, a source has confirmed to E! Online that Blair does kiss both Chuck and Nate at some point in the last couple of episodes of the season. Chuck, in fact, will be cozying up to Blair as early as the next episode.
As far as the Blair-Chuck-Nate love triangle, Gossip Girl top gun Josh Schwartz says that it is indeed a big part of the storyline.
"It's graduation, so it's all about what is the future for these characters and the show? Where's everyone going to be next year? Chuck, Blair and Nate are obviously a big story we're telling," he says.
From the looks of it, however, Meester's real-life boyfriend Sebastian Stan will enter the scene as Carter Baizen, whom Blair will hook up with. Then again, Blair will also hook up with Nate and Chuck, and the showrunners promise that the much frowned upon Nate-Blair reunion will not suck as some fans think it would.
Monday night, Gossip Girl made a theatrical debut after a six week hiatus, setting up all the backstabbing intrigue that will take us through spring, with a modernized jaunt back in time to Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence." The troubled Constance and St. Jude's seniors put it on their senior play, and couldn't help injecting the drama with their signature soliloquies of upper-class agony. And whose agony could rival poor Blair Waldorf's? We finally saw the fall-out of Blair's "black ops" mission against Miss Carr: her acceptance to Yale was revoked, her secrets were blasted all over Gossip Girl, and the cold, hard truth was shoved in her face that her life isn't perfect, and her peers aren't jealous or sympathetic. They hate her.
Now the CW has released promos for the next episode, "The Grandfather," which will finally bring to light a situation that us spoiler-seekers have known for weeks was in the works: Nate and Blair, at it again. And not just any Blair--this is bad Blair. And not just the regular bad Blair--this is my-dreams-are-crushed-because-I'm-not-going-to-Yale-and-everyone-hates-me Blair. This is nothing-left-to-lose Blair. Sure, bad Blair isn't exactly new... but it is truly terrifying.
Two promos for Monday, plus plenty of pictures from the next TWO upcoming episodes, after the jump.
Read the Recap: Gossip Girl Episode 2.18 Age of Dissonance
Read the Aftergasm: Who Needs the Stage for All This Scandal?
Fresh from the unexpected ditching that our beloved Chuck Bass (