'Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf Sequel Book Is Coming In 2027

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Attention, Upper East Siders, a beloved fashionista is returning to reclaim her throne. Blair Waldorf is getting her own sequel, set 20 years after the Gossip Girl series. The new project will center on the former teen queen now in her 40s — and it sounds like she’s had a bit of a fall from grace since she ruled the streets of Manhattan back in the day.

A new novel titled Blair, written by Gossip Girl author Cecily von Ziegesar, was announced on Feb. 4. While specific details were kept quiet, Deadline did reveal that Blair will be set 20 years after the events of von Ziegesar’s novel series, which were released from 2002 to 2009. The story will be about Blair, who is now in her 40s, returning to the New York City social scene.

The plot seems to imply that Blair had left New York and seriously changed her lifestyle in the years since Gossip Girl ended. In the series finale of the CW adaptation, Blair married Chuck Bass, and a five-year time jump reveal...