Blair Waldorf

Gossip Girl character
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Blair Waldorf
Creators:	Character Cecily von Ziegesar Developed for Television Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage
First appearance:	Novel Gossip Girl Television "Pilot"
Portrayed by:	Leighton Meester

Blair Cornelia Waldorf is the main character of the Gossip Girl books, introduced in the original novel series and appearing in the television adaptation of the same name. She was created by the series' original author, Cecily von Ziegesar. Blair, whose actions and relations are frequently followed by the mysterious Gossip Girl, is a privileged young woman born to high society on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The television character, played by Leighton Meester, has gained a degree of notability for her popular wardrobe. As a result, her styles and outfits have received real-life coverage or recognition from various periodicals.

Both the author and television actress have openly commented on the character's motivations. According to Meester, some of Blair's biggest vices are her "insecurities" with regard to her social status, which often make her an overachiever. This is partly due to a certain degree of jealousy she feels toward her friend and occasional rival, Serena. At times, these insecurities create what von Ziegesar labels "flaws and complexities" which contribute to character development. One of Blair's most noticeable issues is an apparently snobbish persona. However, it is suggested that this is a byproduct of her attempts to maintain social prominence, and does not represent the entirety of her personality. In Meester's view, the true Blair is a "good girl" who possesses a more sensitive and good-natured center.

Book series background

Blair was born to high society on Manhattan's exclusive Upper East Side. Her father is Harold Waldorf, Esquire, a successful lawyer, and her mother is Eleanor Waldorf Rose, an Upper East Side hostess. She has a younger sibling named Tyler Waldorf. After her mother's marriage to Cyrus Rose, she gained a step sibling named Aaron Rose, an alternative vegan, and a half-sister, Yale Rose. Blair's father lives in France with his partner, Giles. Blair grew up with popular girl Serena van der Woodsen and future boyfriend Nate Archibald. She is described to be 5'4" and slender, with brilliant blue eyes, long brunette hair (for the first four books), and a fox-like face. Her two allies, after former best friend Serena left for her New Hampshire boarding school, are Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates. She cuts her long brunette hair to her ears and continues to cut it to look like her idol, Audrey Hepburn.

Blair is a student at the Constance Billard School for Girls, a small, elite, all-girls school located at 93rd and Madison Avenue, and suffered from bulimia. She wants to attend Yale University, notably with on/off boyfriend Nate, but in the end she goes to Yale alone. Blair, before going off to college, usually lived with her mother, step father, and full and half/step siblings in a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue. She also lived at The Plaza Hotel, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with Vanessa Abrams, and in the original apartment where Breakfast at Tiffany's was shot with BFF Serena, in designer Bailey Winter's East Hampton summer home, and the Yale Club of New York City.

Overview

Starting at a dinner party at the Waldorf Penthouse for future stepfather Cyrus Rose, former best friend Serena, described as the most gorgeous girl in all of New York City, returns from her boarding school Hanover Academy in Hanover, New Hampshire. Blair, from the start, doesn't want to give up her spotlight as being the "most happening" girl in the room just yet. She and boyfriend Nate who have dated for about a year are in the middle of a passionate scene when Serena shows up, and entertains all the guests with stories about her wild summer adventures and what it was like to be at boarding school, kicking Blair out of the spotlight again.

Blair starts nasty rumors about Serena and turns her into a school outcast. Eventually, Blair finds out boyfriend Nate Archibald slept with Serena right after sophomore year, hence why Serena felt the need to escape to boarding school and not come back for a year before she was kicked out for returning late in the beginning of the school year. When Jenny Humphrey, a freshman with a hearty bosom steals Nate away from her on her birthday, which is also the day that her then pregnant mother marries Cyrus Rose, Serena and Blair make up once again and go back to being the best of friends, while ignoring Nate and his new girlfriend. When Blair's mom marries Cyrus Rose, she meets her new step brother, Aaron Rose (a vegan with an endless supply of herbal cigarettes and an unrequited crush on Blair), comes the day Blair has been waiting for all her life—her Yale interview.

Blair messes up her college interview at Yale by telling her interviewer about the trainwreck her life has become, and then kissing him on the cheek upon dismissal. Blair's father donates a multi-million dollar vineyard to Yale, but it is still not enough to clear her mistakes, and she is wait-listed at Yale. She's turned down by Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, and Wesleyan and is only accepted into Georgetown University, her safety, despite being one of the best girls in the senior class. However, Serena, a below-average student, was accepted into all of these schools.

She is known to move out of her home frequently, first trying to live at Serena's penthouse before they left for Sun Valley, then taking a suite at The Plaza Hotel (to the chagrin of Constance Billard's headmistress), moving into Brooklyn with her shaven-haired classmate Vanessa Abrams, living with Serena at the original apartment where Breakfast at Tiffany's was shot, and moving into designer Bailey Winter's East Hampton home as a muse. She also lived in the Yale Club of New York City for a short time, where she held her high school graduation bash.

After Nate, her relationships with other men have been quite rocky. She started a brief fling with her Yale alumni interviewer, only to end it when she finds out that he was married and has a daughter also studying at Constance. She also had a thing with Serena Van der Woodsen's older brother, Erik Van der Woodsen, while they were skiing at Sun Valley for spring break. After another messy break-up with Nate, she starts a brief affair with a British lord she met at the Yale Club, however, this was ended upon learning of his relationship with his second-cousin.

Blair is eventually accepted into Yale. She and Nate go on a month-long boat trip around the world over the summer and return a week before college starts, only to discover Serena waiting. Nate realizes he also loves Serena, but not wanting to hurt Blair he chooses neither of them. At the end of the final book, Blair and Serena make up after Nate leaves them both to sail across the world with his father's Navy mentor, Captain Chips White, to figure his life out.

TV series background

Wealthy and snobby, yet good-natured, Blair Waldorf is the daughter of high-end fashion designer Eleanor Waldorf and Harold Waldorf. Mr. Waldorf left Mrs. Waldorf for Roman, a male model who worked with his wife, and ran off to Paris. Blair is known for her Queen Bee status at the exclusive Constance Billard School for girls.

Season 1

In Season 1 of Gossip Girl, Blair is introduced as the Upper East Side 'Queen Bee,' who is dating Nate Archibald (whom her friends joke that she has dated "since kindergarten"), best friends with, IT girl, Serena van der Woodsen, and also close friends and plotting allies with Chuck Bass. When her best friend, Serena van der Woodsen, returns home from boarding school, the two try to reconcile their friendship. Blair soon learns from her boyfriend, Nate, that he and a drunken Serena slept together behind her back. Blair, infuriated, ends her friendship with Serena. However, at the end of the episode "Poison Ivy", the two reconcile as Blair incorrectly stated that Serena had a drug problem (pictures, which Chuck Bass took, implied that Serena was a patient at the Ostroff Centre), when in fact Serena was there to visit her brother who tried to commit suicide. Nate continually seeks out Serena, and in the process breaks Blair's heart on numerous occasions; but Blair, hanging onto him, manages to keep their relationship together until "Victor/Victrola".

Blair and her fashion designer mother have a rocky relationship. Blair is convinced that Eleanor enjoys Serena's company more than her own and seems more convinced of this when Eleanor chooses Serena over Blair as a model for her clothing line. Her father left her and her mother for a Roman, a male model working for Eleanor, and the two live in France. She is close to her father and is trying to have a closer relationship to her mother, in spite of Eleanor's efforts to keep her ex-husband away from the family. It is also revealed that she has an eating disorder that she has overcome, but sometimes relapses back into when extremely distressed. In episode 9, Blair also admits to being on Lexapro, an antidepressant / anti anxiety medication.

Fed up with Nate's attraction to Serena, Blair reaches her breaking point when Nate can't seem to reciprocate her love. She breaks it off with Nate and goes to Victrola, the burlesque club that Chuck Bass has recently purchased. After being challenged by Chuck to dance on stage, she loses her virginity to him in a limo in the spirit of the moment.

Regretful of her actions, Blair is focused on getting back together with Nate as soon as possible and warns Chuck to keep quiet about their affair. On the night of her birthday, however, Nate fails to make an appearance at her party, and Chuck confesses his feelings for her. He gives her a necklace as a birthday present that she had hoped Nate would get for her, and the two begin a secret affair.

She agrees to go to the Constance Billard's debutante ball with Nate, but she is distant, and in a fit of jealousy, Nate gets into a fight over her and is kicked out of the ball. Blair realizes that Chuck tricked Nate into getting into the fight and leaves Chuck to reconcile with Nate. Out of fear of losing Blair to Nate, Chuck attempts to manipulate events in his favor, but his plan back-fires and brings the two together again. Chuck sees Blair and Nate kissing and going into a room, and he leaves NYC miserably.

Chuck, driven by jealousy, threatens Blair that he'll tell Nate about the two of them. To secure his silence, Blair agrees to avoid Nate. But when the three are part of a group of students threatened with suspension for breaking into the school, Nate, mistakenly thinking that Blair was responsible, takes the blame in her stead and is suspended. When Blair asks him why he confessed to something he did not do, he tells her it's because he loves her, and they reconcile later in the episode. Chuck, infuriated with the reunion of Blair and Nate, anonymously informs Gossip Girl that Blair had sex with two men in one week. Jenny confirms to Nate that Blair and Chuck slept together. Nate, furious, gets into a fight with Chuck, and ends his friendship with Chuck and relationship with Blair.

Blair's entire life now revolves around getting rid of Jenny as queen.. After sending false tips to Gossip Girl and trying to sabotage Jenny's birthday, Blair tries to regain her throne by revealing that Jenny's boyfriend is gay, and is just using her as a cover-up; however, Jenny's reputation is ultimately ruined because she lied to the clique about having slept with him. The girls in the group quickly cut their ties with her and go back to being Blair's Clique.

Blair, Nate, and Chuck, who all hate each other (but remain Serena's three closest friends), reunite to help Serena get rid of Georgina Sparks, who is blackmailing her with the video of a boy overdosing on drugs while he was partying with them. In the process, the close-knit group of four grow closer, and many fans have stolen Blair's nickname for the group and dubbed them the "Non-Judging Breakfast Club."

At the Bass/van der Woodsen wedding, she and Chuck reconcile when Chuck announces in his speech that "in the face of true love, you never give up—even when the object of your affection is begging you to." The two share a kiss after he apologizes for his previous cruel words and indiscreet text messages. Blair is surprised to find Chuck being so "romantic." A week after the wedding, the beginning of summer, Blair and Chuck make plans to go to Tuscany together. However Chuck, fearful of losing the "Chuck Bass" portion of his nature, reverts to his old habits and stands Blair up at the helipad, leaving Blair to fly off to Tuscany without him. On board she finds a new love interest, and Chuck meanwhile entertains an attractive interior designer.

Season 2

A good portion of Blair's storyline in season 2 revolves around her love-hate relationship with Chuck Bass. At the beginning of season 2, Chuck tries to win her back, but Blair is preoccupied with her new fling, a British Lord by the name of Marcus Beaton. Blair manipulates Marcus's stepmother into a social alliance after she learns that the Duchess is actually her ex-boyfriend Nate's secret married lover Catherine. She later gains a bit of sympathy for Catherine when she realizes that Catherine's relationship with Marcus's father parallels her own sexless relationship with Marcus. Chuck picks up on this, and in the middle of a blackout at a party he puts on a fake British accent and seduces Blair. Marcus walks in on the two of them, and Blair admits she wasn't fooled, but that she needed Marcus to show her that he wanted her, physically. Vanessa discovers that Marcus is sleeping with Catherine, his step mom, and tells Blair because she thinks that Blair can manipulate them to get Nate out of debt. Blair threatened to tell Catherine's husband about her affair with Lord Marcus. She also told her she would keep her mouth shut if Catherine and Marcus left town together and paid off Nate's father's debts. Unfortunately, Vanessa, not believing the Blair is really intending to go through with this plan, went to Lord Marcus' father earlier and spilled the beans about Catherine and Marcus, and so Nate remained in debt.

With Marcus out of the picture, she waddles back into her clique of friends but as it turns out, in the little time she was preoccupied with dating Marcus and getting rid of him, Serena van der Woodsen, her best friend and it girl, has regained her original spot as Queen Bee and acquired the favor of the girls in their clique once more. During Fashion Week, Blair, annoyed that Serena is the one in the spotlight, tries to ruin things for her and Jenny, who tried to get in the way of her sabotage to stage a good show for Eleanor. Jenny then wins her sympathies back by telling her that she, like Blair, works for everything she achieves, while Serena just glides through life. Blair confronts Serena backstage and expresses hurt at the fact Serena broke their tradition of watching the fashion show from backstage. However, Serena rebuffs Blair's accusations and tells her bluntly how she always has to step aside so Blair can be the one to shine brightest, and that she no longer wants to hold back who she is just so Blair won't get her feelings hurt.

Thrilled to be going on a school trip to Yale, Blair thinks of ways to impress the headmaster. However, he is already charmed by Serena, who has decided to go to Yale instead of Brown. Blair messes up her interview, including trying to kiss the dean, so she bribes the secretary to allow her to attend a very important dinner, where she sabotages Serena's chances by revealing Serena's history, including her 'murder' of a drug addict with whom she used to party. This culminates in a physical catfight, where Blair and Serena resolve to stop being friends. The next day, however, Serena finds Blair fessing up to the dean, when she intended to do the same for her. They apologize to each other and resume being best friends.

Vanessa tries to blackmail Blair by threatening to release the pictures of Marcus to Gossip Girl, in an attempt to make Blair endorse her campaign to save an old bar. Blair enlists the help of Chuck to 'seduce and destroy' Vanessa so she can never bother her again. However, in the midst of the proceedings, Chuck grows to like the old bar and Vanessa, so he backs out on their plan. Blair berates Vanessa anyway, and tells Chuck that he can claim his prize--a night with her. Chuck demands that she admit she loves him, as she had asked him to do before, but Blair adamantly refuses, telling him that she will never say those words to him. He gets up and leaves, telling her that he is done chasing, and it's now her turn to chase him.

Blair refuses to say that she loves him while walking to school. She then begins plotting against Chuck Bass to get him to sleep with her. Serena invites Dan to give a little advice, and Dan suggests that Blair make herself irresistible to get Chuck to sleep with her. At one point, Blair entices Chuck into getting a drink with her; unfortunately, she throws herself all over Chuck by first getting him to 'smell' her perfume and then throws her drink at Chuck's crotch. Chuck gets bored with her desperate acts and leaves. She then calls Dan who suggests she intercept him at home. Blair goes to Serena's room, pretending to sleepover at Serena's and planning her seductive ploy on Chuck. Blair nearly succeeds but their foreplay is interrupted by Serena's text message. Chuck and Blair race to grab Blair's phone and Chuck leaves, realizing that Blair was just playing games. In her last effort, Serena suggests Dan's advice once more, and he tells Blair to take a risk and admit to Chuck that she loves him, as Dan is convinced that Blair is indeed in love with Chuck. Blair takes his advice much later and calls Chuck, asking him to meet her at the roof of Rufus' gallery during an opening. But before the meeting, Dan finds out about Vanessa's incident with Chuck and Blair and sabotages Blair by replacing his advice on taking risks with that of taking caution. Chuck and Blair get into an argument and Blair reminds Chuck that she asked him to say those "three words, eight letters" first. Chuck walks off and Blair leaves the gallery. Later that night, Blair receives a visit from Chuck, who tells her that the reason that they can't say "I love you" to each other is because it would end their current relationship and send them to a closer level, one that Chuck knows they aren't ready for. Blair contemplates Chuck's advice, and eventually agrees, with the idea that they will put their relationship on hold.

Blair disapproves of her mothers new boyfriend, Cyrus Rose, and will do anything to break them apart. She succeeds when she gets him to admit he had an affair when married to his ex-wife, and fell in love with the other women (which is exactly what happened to Eleanor with Harold). At Blair's eighteenth birthday party, Blair tells Eleanor, and she breaks up with him; however, Blair reconciles the two after she finds out that Cyrus asked Cyndi Lauper to sing to her at her birthday (despite the fact that she still disapproves of the two together). In "The Magnificent Archibalds", Blair is offended when Cyrus hijacks her Thanksgiving traditions.

In the episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", Chuck reels from the news of his father's death. Blair forgets all their games and does what she can to be there for him, finally telling Chuck that she loves him. However, he is still mourning his father's death and leaves her without responding. Blair turns to Cyrus Rose for support, and finally accepts him as part of her family. Cyrus marries Eleanor Waldorf, and that night, Chuck appears in Blair's bedroom, wordlessly asking her to comfort him. They fall asleep together, but in the morning she wakes to find him gone, having left her a note saying that he is sorry for everything, she deserves much better, and that she must not go looking for him.

During the episode "In the Realm of the Basses", Chuck returns along with his uncle, Jack Bass, and initially shuns Blair. When he is drunk and on the verge of suicide, Blair arrives and talks him down from a ledge. After telling Chuck "I'll always be here," Blair shares a moment of affection with him. When Blair and Jack help Chuck go home she asks Jack not to tell Chuck about what happened between them on New Years.

In the episode "Gone with the Will," Chuck is given the job of becoming the new CEO of Bass Industries. At first Chuck willingly decides to give the job to Jack, who wanted the position more than anything else on the will, but Blair and Nate persuade Chuck to reconsider believing that he could do it. Jealous and furious, Jack arranges Chuck to be caught by the Board of Members with a bunch of girls and completely drunk. When Chuck realizes what his uncle had done he storms out the congratulatory party arranged by Blair. Blair goes after Chuck but he yells her off when he told her to stop acting like his wife. That night Chuck tries to apologize to Blair but she couldn't forgive him for what he said.

With early acceptance letters to Yale arriving, the halls of Constance Billard and St. Jude are curious to know who got in. Blair constantly has her clique refreshing her Eli Account to see if she got in or not. It is finally revealed that Blair got wait listed whereas Dan and Serena are accepted. However, knowing how much Yale means to Blair, Serena tells Blair and Dan at first that she got wait listed too. Eventually, Serena reveals her acceptance to Dan and Blair and both couldn't be more happier.

Meanwhile, a new, young Iowain teacher named Ms. Rachel Carr arrives at Constance Billard. Although, Serena and Dan admire the new teacher she becomes a treat to Blair when she gives her very first B. Blair decides to get back at Ms. Carr when she invites her to dine with her and her father but stands her up. At the opera with her father and his boyfriend instead of the restaurant, Blair receives a call from the Headmaster saying that Yale will accept her if she keeps her grades up. Regretting standing up Ms. Carr, Blair rushes to the restaurant and finds her leaving but manages to apologize. The next day, Blair is asked to see the Headmaster believing it to be a congratulatory tea but it turns out the Ms. Carr had informed the Headmaster of what Blair had done and the Headmaster punishes Blair to detention and informs her that Yale will be holding her acceptance. After their meeting, Blair decides that it is now war between her and Ms. Carr and that this is one war she is going win.

During the episode "Carnal Knowledge," Dan and Ms. Carr have been getting closer in their student-teacher relationship. Seeing their awkward interaction in the halls, Blair sends a text to Gossip Girl about their seemingly not so innocent student-teacher relationship. The word gets out and soon the Headmaster and Ms. Carr speak to Blair knowing that she is the one who posted the rumor on Gossip Girl after Nelly Yuki, a member of Blair's clique, admits it was Blair. Then the Headmaster expells Blair from Constance Billard. Serena tries to apologize for Blair to Ms. Carr and explains how much Yale means to Blair but Ms. Carr replies that Blair's rumor could ruin her reputation as a teacher and leaves for a meeting she has before the PTA meeting. Serena sees that Ms. Carr left her planner and decides to give it back to her at the restaurant listed in it. There, Serena finds Dan comforting Ms. Carr and quickly takes a picture of them and shows it to Blair who goes to the PTA meeting and shows all the parents, teachers, and the Headmaster. Meanwhile, Dan arrives at the school upon receiving a text from Serena to meet her there and Serena explains what she saw and Dan tells her that nothing happened. When the parents, the faculty, and Blair leave the meeting Ms. Carr is fired and Dan gets mad at Blair for what she did. However, that following the night Dan tries to apologize to Ms. Carr for everything that happened but Ms. Carr kisses him and the two engage in an affair when she tells him that she's not his teacher anymore.

Reception

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Meester's portrayal of Blair has met with critical acclaim. The actress prepared by reading Gossip Girl.

While covering the book series, Fresh Online called the creation of Blair "a masterstroke," asserting that "her selfishness, stubbornness and complete self-obsession make her the focus of much of the humor, but while she is the most flawed of the series’ main characters, she is also the most likable." The reviewer went on to state that the character was "satisfyingly human" despite her bravado, also asserting that the things Blair desires represent "normal teenage issues," and that "she is far more than the stereotypical Barbie rich girl who creeps into much teenage fiction."

While making reference to the TV series in a 2008 article, People magazine commented that "Meester has burst out of this ensemble to stardom." Variety acclaimed her performance as similar to that of "a predatory junior Joan Collins who practically breathes fire out of her pinched, perfectly WASP-ish nostrils." FHM Online ranked the actress the "Hottest TV Star" of autumn 2008, stating that as Blair Waldorf, "Meester has stolen the spotlight with her mind-blowing good looks and amazing performance."

The character's sense of fashion (credited to designers Eric Daman and Abigail Lorick) is popular, earning mentions from periodicals such as InStyle and New York, along with recognition from numerous Websites. TV Guide also ranked Blair Waldorf among its "Best-Dressed TV Characters of 2007."

Differences between the novels and TV series

Notable differences exist between the book series and the television adaptation in regards to Blair. In the opening credits of the TV series, she is billed second. Her favorite store in the books is Barneys, whereas in the TV series she has no particular favorite (though she is shown to love Henri Bendel) but wears many of the same design brands as in the novels. Furthermore, in the book series, Blair and Chuck do not associate much; in the TV series, they are quite close and even venture into a serious relationship, which is the result of unanswered feelings between them when Chuck left Blair at the end of the first season. She loses her virginity to Nate in the book, while in the series she misguidedly loses it to Chuck.

Additional differences arise with regard to Blair's family. In the books, Blair has a younger brother named Tyler, whereas, in the TV series, she is an only child. Eleanor, Blair's mother, is a wealthy hostess in the book, while she is a designer in the show. Her step-brother, Aaron, is the same age as Blair in the books whereas in the TV Series he is ambiguously older.

Blair has a cat named Kitty Minky in the book. It is noteworthy, though, that in the TV series, her father's lover Roman (Giles in the books), named their cat Cat, in reference to Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blair's favorite movie. Also, in the TV series, audiences are given the impression Blair was bulimic before her dad left, but in the books, she becomes bulimic after he leaves.

In the books, Blair never loses her social status as queen, as the TV series portrayed at one point. She never fought with Serena over their stature (except for a few misunderstandings when Serena first returns), their tiffs concerning mostly Nate.

Family

Book series

• Harold Waldorf (father)
• Eleanor Rose (mother)
• Tyler Waldorf (brother)
• Cyrus Rose (step-father)
• Aaron Rose (stepbrother)
• Yale Rose (half-sister)

TV series

• Harold Waldorf (father)
• Eleanor Waldorf (mother)
• Cyrus Rose (step-father as of Episode 13 of Season 2, "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?")
• Aaron Rose (step-brother as of Episode 13 of Season 2, "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?")

Flings and romantic relationships

Book series

• Nate Archibald (boyfriend)
• Miles (fling)
• Owen Wells (fling)
• Erik van der Woodsen (fling)
• Lord Marcus (dated)
• Jason (fling)

TV series

• Nate Archibald
  • First Relationship:
    • Start Up: Before "Pilot" (1.01)
    • Broke Up: "Victor, Victrola" (1.07)
      • Reason: Blair felt he could never really love her because of his feelings for Serena.
  • Second Relationship:
    • Start Up: "Hi, Society" (1.10)
    • Broke Up: "A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate" (1.13)
      • Reason: Nate finds out that Blair slept with both himself and Chuck in the same week.
• Chuck Bass
  • First Relationship:
    • Start Up:(Unofficialy) "Victor, Victrola" (1.07) (Officialy) "Seventeen Candles" (1.8)
    • Broke Up: "Hi, Society" (1.10)
      • Reason: Blair believed that Chuck purposely ruined her Cotillion.
  • Second Relationship:
    • Start Up: "Much 'I Do' About Nothing" (1.18)
    • Broke Up: Before "Summer, Kind of Wonderful" (2.01)
      • Reason: Chuck, afraid of showing the "real-him" to Blair and disappointing her, ditches Blair, leaving her to go to Europe alone.

• Lord Marcus Beaton
  • Start Up: Before "Summer Kind of Wonderful" (2.01)
  • Broke Up: "The Ex-Files" (2.04)
    • Reason: Blair learned that Marcus slept with his step mother Catherine.