The ‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot Is Promising To Be A Lot More Diverse

If you haven’t heard, a Gossip Girl reboot is set to return next year, this time featuring a whole new cast with the originals not reprising their roles.

We know. Sad reacts only.

That means goodbye Blair…goodbye Chuck…goodbye Serena…and goodbye to the other 80,000 white people that acted on the show (tea).

HBO has announced that the show will look a lot different when it returns. Not just different like Jenny Humphrey, Season 3 different. We’re talking DIVERSITY different!

Yes! Writer and executive producer of the original, Joshua Safran, stated that “this time around the leads are non-white”, after stating that “there was not a lot of representation first time around on the show.”

Not only will there be more POC leads, but the show will delve deeper into LGBTQ+ storylines, which was vastly missing from the original series.

“There’s a lot more queer content on the show,” said Safran at Vulture Festival this past weekend. “It is very much dealing with the way the world looks now, where wealth and privilege come from, and how you handle that.”

Safran also stated that the reboot will take place at the scene of the original: Constance Billard School for Girls. The show will pick up in the same universe, 12 to 13 years from where the original left off. Furthermore, it will look at how the age of social media would affect Gossip Girl and how she operates, cos let’s face it, no one’s reading her BLOG in 2019.

This past week TVLine confirmed that Kristen Bell would be reprising her role as the narrator herself, so get ready to climax when you that iconic opening sentence: “Hey Upper East Siders xx.”