Chace Crawford Shares Sweet Leighton Meester Gossip Girl Audition Story

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Chace Crawford has shared a sweet story from his final Gossip Girl audition that involved his very first meeting with co-star, Leighton Meester. Having established itself as one of the 2000s' most beloved TV shows, Gossip Girl told the story of some of the Upper East Side's most privileged residents, as they endured the highs and the lows of their teen years under the watchful eye of Gossip Girl, an anonymous blogger who sought to expose their most intimate secrets. Alongside Crawford and Meester, the series starred Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick, and Taylor Momsen, with Kristen Bell providing the iconic voice of Gossip Girl.

The original Gossip Girl series, which ran from 2007 to 2012, saw Crawford star as Nate Archibald, the golden boy of the Upper East Side and a central part of the series' core friendship group that included Lively, Westwick, Meester, and Badgley. Last year, HBO aired its highly anticipated reboot to the beloved series, which offered a modern take on the Gossip Girl story, featuring a fresh young cast, and with Kristen Bell returning to voice the mysteriously vicious blogger. Despite their names having become synonymous with the Gossip Girl series over the years, Crawford, alongside the rest of his original castmates, had no involvement with this new series. However, their characters were referenced a number of times by the new Upper East Siders.

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Now, Crawford has shared a sweet story from his final audition for the CW series, while chatting with one of his Gossip Girl co-stars, Jessica Szohr, on her podcast XOXO with Jessica Szohr (via E! News). Sitting down with Szohr to discuss their Upper East Side past, Crawford recalled