Blake Lively was not present at her husband's wedding Gossip Girl co-star Jessica Szohr.
Lively played protagonist Serena van der Woodsen in the HBO drama series, while Szohr played Vanessa Abrams, the lifelong best friend of male lead Dan Humphrey, who later marries Serena in the series.
Szohr, who married former professional hockey player Brad Richardson last month, posted some throwback photos last weekend, including a group photo with her castmates who attended the wedding.
“We got married,” the actress wrote on her Instagram Stories. Jessica and Brad have been together since 2019, when they welcomed their daughter Bowie in January 2022. Brad also has a daughter, Lexi, from his previous marriage.
The bride was also joined Gossip Girl Alumnus Chace Crawford in the group photo, but Lively was not in the picture despite both Szohr and Lively being regular cast members on the 2007 HBO series.
The retro post coincides with an ongoing controversy surrounding Lively, whose old interviews have recently been making headlines amid her ongoing feud with Justin Baldoni, the director and her co-star of Ends with us.
Amidst this recent chaos, his real-life rivalry with Gossip Girl Her co-star Leighton Meester, who plays Blair Waldorf, Serena's on-screen rival and on-again, off-again best friend, also regained the spotlight.
An April 2008 report from New York Magazine Sources cited Lively and Meester as saying they had a tendency to “avoid each other like the plague” while filming the series.
The rivalry escalated to the point where the other cast members basically had to “pick sides” in the matter.
Penn Badgley, who played Blake's on-screen lover Dan Humphrey, was also romantically involved with the actress for three years during their time as co-stars.
As of Monday, Meester, Baldoni and Crawford were among the 297 accounts she followed, while Lively was noticeably absent.
In another viral TikTok clip, Lively is seen dissing her co-stars Meester and Ed Westwick, who played Serena's stepbrother and Blair's lover Chuck Bass, during a 2008 panel discussion at Paleyfest.
Lively made a scathing comment during the panel, looking at her co-stars Meester, Westwick and Badgley and humorously calling them “monkeys.” The trio did not appear amused, while Lively continued to insist it was a joke.
