Warning: This story accommodates spoilers from HBO Max’s Gossip Lady.

It might be 9 years because the unique Gossip Lady got here to an finish, however the characters reside on within the new HBO Max sequel sequence of the identical identify.

The brand new present follows a completely new group of wealthy college students on the Higher East Facet’s Constance St. Jude’s and identical to these earlier than them, they run the varsity. Nevertheless, a number of academics are carried out placing up with it.

Within the sequence premiere, a number of of the directors determine to come back collectively to create a shift. How do they do this? Properly, relaunch Gossip Lady, the weblog that knocked a number of the most elite college students off their excessive horses by revealing a few of their deepest and darkest secrets and techniques.

Since blogs at the moment are old-fashioned, apparently, the group — led by instructor Kate Heller (unique influencer Tavi Gevinson) — determine to relaunch Gossip Lady from an Instagram account. That means, they’ll attain the favored group quicker than ever.

Whereas there are early mentions of the unique forged, together with Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Vigorous), Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) and Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), don’t count on any of them to point out up in individual.

“We decided early on — and I used to be nervous about this determination, however positively got here to imagine it was proper — that the viewers would by no means settle for these characters in the event that they had been within the shadow of the unique characters,” showrunner Joshua Safran informed The Each day Beast forward of the premiere. “They’re already within the shadow of the unique characters, but when the unique characters had been there with them in a roundabout way, why would you wish to briefly get to know Zoya in case you immediately can see Nate? Additionally, this present is way larger than the primary present. It’s acquired 16 sequence regulars as an alternative of seven, and 22 recurring as an alternative of 12, so as a result of the present is larger, there isn’t sufficient display screen time.”

The producer added that he knew if Blair or one other fan-favorite appeared early on, audiences would solely need extra.

“The choice was: Let’s get season 1 underneath our belt, and will we get season 2, we’ll have the possibility to usher in cameos which can be greater than glorified cameos however truly give them storylines,” the Soundtrack creator mentioned. “Hopefully we’ll get there and can attain out to the forged if that point comes and see in the event that they’ll wish to come. There are some cameos in season 1 from individuals on the unique present, however not the sequence regulars.”

So, how are the unique forged talked about? Scroll by way of the gallery beneath for each single reference: