The Gossip Girl reboot framed the outsider Zoya Lott (Whitney Peak) as the main character from episode 1, but as season 1 progressed, it became clear that her half-sister Julien Calloway (Jordan Alexander) drove the plot, not Zoya. While the original Gossip Girl considerably focused on the rivalry between Blair and Serena, Zoya and Julien's relationship is very different from that of their predecessors, as there is never any real enmity between them.
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