‘Gossip Girl’ Star Admits He’s Never Rewatched the Series: ‘It’s Embarrassing’ originally appeared on Parade.
Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford hasn’t ever rewatched the iconic series and he doesn’t have any plans to do so anytime soon.
“I haven’t really rewatched any of it,” Crawford said in an interview with People published on June 19. “I’d be terrified. It’s a bit embarrassing.”
Crawford, who appeared in all but six episodes of Gossip Girl’s 121 episode run, admitted that producers sent his parents a copy of the pilot and they “probably watched it 20 times.”
“In a way [Gossip Girl has] kind of become almost classic,” The Boys star told the outlet. “It really was of its time, though. It was just before social media, a little bit ahead of its time in that regard. But in watching, it’s very campy. I forget how kind of campy it was. It’s kind of fun in that way. It’s the music too. Those songs from the pilot are so ingrained.”
Crawford added that if he had a chance to go back in time, there would be a few things he would do differently.
“As a young man, you take yourself too seriously,” he explained. “I think everything’s so precious, and you want to be this Marlon Brando. And I think there gets a point, too, in a show that’s popular where you get your sense of identity and who you are kind of becomes wrapped up in not just that character or the character’s popularity, but the show.”
Crawford continued, “Some actor quoted like, ‘Anyone who gets famous is an assh–e for two years in their own way.’ It can affect people in a really weird way. And it probably made me a bit more paranoid at the time. I would just kind of tell myself to have fun, relax, everything’s going to be okay, and it’s just not holding on too tightly to your career or what you want to do and just have fun with it because you can kind of take yourself seriously.”
‘Gossip Girl’ Star Admits He’s Never Rewatched the Series: ‘It’s Embarrassing’ first appeared on Parade on Jun 19, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.