The Untold Truth Of Gossip Girl

Blake Lively and Penn Badgley split in October 2010 after about three years of dating. After the news broke, all eyes turned to the set of Gossip Girl as people began to wonder: how the heck would two actors who just broke up with each other continue to act romantic on screen?

A few days later, the press got its answer. Lively and Badgley were seen hugging and smiling as they returned to set, showing no signs that a breakup had even happened. "We were consummately professional," Badgley later said during a 2015 episode of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live (via Us Weekly). "And I think we should both pat ourselves on the back for getting through it ... We handled it."

"We were very much caught up in the show, which itself was a six-year endurance test," Badgley previously told Yahoo!. "Our relationship was a part of that and helped us through it. I mean, like anything valuable, it was good and it was bad and it was a learning experience."

Lively went on to date Leonardo DiCaprio before marrying her Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds. Badgley is reportedly dating Domino Kirke, the sister of Girls star Jemima Kirke.

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