Will Connor Paolo's "Gossip Girl" character Eric Van Der Woodsen come out of the closet when the teen drama returns to the CW in April (as many fans believe following a TV Guide report) or is one of the 3 principal male characters on the show about to lock lips with his new boyfriend?
According to early spoilers, Dan Humfrey's sister Jenny (Taylor Momsen) who appeared to be developing a crush on Serena's (Blake Lively) twinky brother Eric (Paolo), is getting a new Johnny Depp lookalike love interest, which means her special bond with Eric may indeed remain only friendship. But is that enough to suspect Eric is gay?
Although he is growing up in a fairly liberal environment as part of Ney York's elite Upper East Side, Eric may indeed be struggling to come to terms with his own identity as the show's pilot revealed he attempted suicide following severe depression.
Penn Badgley's character Dan is gay in the books, but the writers seem to have taken a different route with him. Ironically, last October Badgley discussed sexual orientation of his character's literary inspiration and said:
"Yeah, I think he’s straight-up gay in the books. But I don’t think network TV really has the balls to make one of their [teenage] series regulars gay. Let’s say the show builds up to become a big hit, then I think they’d maybe explore it in year three or four. It would be an interesting thing to do. It could bring in a whole different demographic."
The drama will prove him wrong when it returns April 13 in its new Monday night time slot at 8/7c with 5 all-new episodes.
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It makes perfect sense that it would be Eric. They're not brave enough to make it one of the leads.
ReplyDeleteI attended the Gossip Girl Paley fest and the creator of the books slightly retconned Dan's sexuality by saying in the books he's an artist so he kissed a guy and he's flirty. It seemed she didn't want to classify him as being gay.
lol there is nooo way Dan is gay. yup his gay.
ReplyDeleteDan was confused in the books for a short while. He wound up with Vanessa again.
ReplyDeleteChuck was pretty gay, though, in the books, hah. -But I doubt they'd make him gay (as fun as it would be).
I definately think it's Eric. -.-; **yawn**
IT IS ERIC!
ReplyDeleteIt's been confirmed by an "US WEEKLY" video that showed one of the stars of the show slipping up and letting everyone know. :] It's also been revealed that he, apparently, it going to make out with Jenny's new boyfriend???
Yikes. No offense... but I don't want to see Eric make out with another guy.
Not very surprising, right? :]