Blair Waldorf
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| Blair Cornelia Waldorf | |
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| Name | Blair Cornelia Waldorf |
| Portrayed by | Leighton Meester |
| First Appearance | 1.01, 'Pilot' |
| Age | 17 (TV), 15-17 (books) |
Blair Cornelia Waldorf is a main character in the CW's teen drama Gossip Girl, and the book series of the same name. The character is portrayed by Leighton Meester in the television series.
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[edit] Television Series
[edit] Season One
Blair is introduced as the Upper East Side's It Girl and Queen Bee of Constance Billard School for Girls. After a year at boarding school, her best friend and the former It Girl Serena van der Woodsen returns to Manhattan and the two girls attempt to repair their friendship. This is quickly ruined when Blair finds out that the reason behind Serena's abrupt leaving town was that she had a one-night stand with Blair's boyfriend Nate Archibald. Blair found this out from Nate after she made plans to lose her virginity to him. Furious, Blair ended her friendship with Serena. For several episodes the girls stay in a catty rivalry, until the end of Poison Ivy. Blair finds out that Serena came back to town because her younger brother Eric attempted to kill himself. Blair also showed Serena an unsent letter, and the two bonded again.
Blair's mother Eleanor has her own fashion design line, and Blair has always thought that her mother liked Serena better than her. When Serena was chosen over Blair to be the face of the 'Waldorf' clothing line, this seems to confirm it for Blair, who believes that Serena is going to take everything away from her again. This includes Nate and Blair's popular status, but Serena tries to convince her that she's changed. Blair has a brief but interesting heart-to-heart with Dan Humphrey at the end of Bad News Blair, even though the two usually can't stand each other, especially as Dan, a Brooklyn outsider, is dating Serena.
Nate continues to frequently seek out Serena, who is uninterested in his advances, behind Blair's back. This causes a frustrated and hurt Blair to reach her breaking point, and after ending her already strained relationship with Nate, she heads to Victrola, the burlesque club recently opened by Chuck Bass. When Chuck, Nate's best friend, challenges Blair to dance on stage, she takes the bait. At the end of the episode, Blair loses her virginity to Chuck in the back of his limo. Blair then convinces herself that this was a complete lapse in judgement, which fuels her desire to get back with Nate. She also warns Chuck to stay quiet about what happened between them.
On the night of Blair's seventeenth birthday, Blair and Chuck make a bet. Blair insists that Nate will, at the very least, call her by midnight. Chuck thinks otherwise. Jenny Humphrey and Nate have a conversation that leads to them hugging, and the photo is sent around by Gossip Girl, implying that Nate and the 'mystery girl' did a lot more than hug. When everyone at the party receives this message, Blair is humiliated and lets everyone know that it doesn't matter, as she and Nate already broke up days before. Chuck awkwardly reveals that he has butterflies in his stomach when it comes to Blair, something he hates; Blair freaks out, but later on, she accepts a gift from Chuck. It's the diamond necklace she had thought Nate was going to give her. Blair and Chuck then begin a secret affair.
Blair and Nate reconcile at the Constance Billard debutante ball, after he gets into fight over her while jealous. Chuck worries about losing Blair to Nate again, and manipulates the events in the hopes that Blair and Nate would have a fight. However, the plan backfires, and has the opposite effect. Chuck sees Blair and Nate kissing while slipping out of the ballroom, and a miserable Chuck leaves New York for a brief vacation.
Exceptionally jealous, Chuck threatens to reveal to Nate the details of his short-lived affair with Blair. In response, Blair breaks up with Nate so there wouldn't be a point in Chuck telling anything. A group of the Upper East Side teens break into the school pool for a party. Incorrectly thinking that it was Blair who stole the key to break in (when in actuality it was Serena), Nate takes the blame for it, risking expulsion from school. Upset, Blair asks why he would do that; Nate says he loves her and, once again, their relationship is mended. Upon finding this out in the next episode, Chuck plans his revenge. He sends a tip to Gossip Girl saying that Blair slept with two guys in one week. Tired of being socially shunned by Blair, Jenny confirms this to Nate. Nate and Chuck get into a fistfight, which results in Nate cutting ties with both Blair and Chuck. Now an outcast and subject of mockery, Blair tries to flee to France, where her father lives with his partner. Serena manages to stop Blair in time, persuading her that they can get through this together.
Blair returns to Constance Billard as a social outcast and laughing stock, and Jenny pours yoghurt into her hair to show off to her new friends, who used to be Blair's minions. This causes everyone around to laugh and sneer at Blair, who rushes off with Serena. On her best friend's advice, Blair makes an attempt to put the entire mess behind her. The group sets up a dinner date with her, but sets her up and instead hang out with Jenny at Hazel's place. Furious, Blair intends to get revenge on Jenny and reclaim her thrown as Queen Bee. She does this by inviting the group to Jenny's place for her birthday instead of a Manhattan club. This leads to embarrassment for Jenny - not only do they see that she is relatively low-class financially, but it is also proven that Jenny stole Hazel's mother's one-of-a-kind Valentino dress. Blair takes the rest of the girls to dinner to celebrate, but the victory is short-lived when Jenny drags Nate along. Jenny is forgiven because several of the girls have crushes on Nate. This starts up a war between Blair and Jenny.
A week later, Blair wants to make sure that Nelly Yuki, the smartest girl in their class, can't concentrate on her SAT studies. Blair forms an SAT study group with her friends from Constance Billard, making sure to leave Jenny out. Blair ensures that Nelly and her ex get back together and break up again just before the SATs, so Nelly can't focus on the exams.
Blair and Jenny send outrageous fake rumours about each other to Gossip Girl. Jenny meets a guy named Asher, and when she finds out he's rich, she starts to date him. To keep her in with the It girls, she lies and says she slept with Asher, who is using her as a cover-up - Asher is having a secret gay relationship with Eric. At Jenny's party, Asher is outed, as are Jenny's lies and she instead becomes the outcast, and Blair Queen Bee. Jenny tells Blair that she has decided that being an It Girl isn't worth it.
On the same night, a distressed and crying Serena shows up at Blair's penthouse. Serena has a dark secret, and reveals she killed someone. Blair is stunned, and while looking for something to calm her friend, Serena slips out again and spends the night partying. Blair eventually retrieves her and takes her back to the apartment the next morning. Blair enlists the help of Nate and Chuck, even though things are still tense and awkward between them. Dan, Serena's boyfriend, shows up looking for Serena. Blair, Nate and Chuck tell him that Serena doesn't want to see him. Refusing to believe this, Dan stays there until Serena appears. She lies and says she slept with someone else, causing Dan to break up with her. She claims that it was better than Dan knowing the real truth. Reluctantly, she reveals all about the night she claims she killed someone to Blair, Chuck and Nate.
Later that night at Lily's wedding rehearsal dinner, Blair persuades her that Serena is in a lot of pain over her secret, and doesn't deserve to be shipped off to a reformatory school. Lily and Serena talk, and Serena goes to the parents of the man she led to overdose on cocaine, therefore killing him. When they tell Serena they hold no blame for her over the man's death, Serena goes to Rufus's Rolling Stone concert to reconcile with Dan and tell him everything. Blair tells Chuck that they should personally hunt down Georgina Sparks, an ex-friend who has been tormenting Serena for weeks and manipulating Dan to believe she is a new girl called 'Sarah'. Chuck replies, "Let's get the bitch."
Unfortunately for Blair, Chuck and Nate, Georgina is nowhere to be seen at the concert, as she has already kissed and left with Dan.
[edit] Family
[edit] TV series
- Harold Waldorf (father)
- Eleanor Waldorf (mother)
- Roman (father's boyfriend)
[edit] Books
- Harold Waldorf (father)
- Eleanor Waldorf-Rose (mother)
- Tyler Waldorf (brother)
- Cyrus Rose (step father)
- Aaron Rose (step brother)
- Yale Rose (half sister by Eleanor and Cyrus)
- Ping and Pong Waldorf (adopted half siblings by Harold and his lover Giles)
[edit] Romantic relationships
[edit] TV series
- Nate Archibald (said to have dated since kindergarten, most recently broke up in 1.13 A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate because of Blair and Chuck seeing each other behind Nate's back)
- Chuck Bass (slept together in 1.07 Victor, Victrola and maintained an affair until 1.10 Hi, Society because Chuck lied to Nate and caused a scene at Blair's debutante ball.)
[edit] Books
- Nate Archibald (dated/lovers)
- Serena van der Woodsen (fling)
- Miles (fling)
- Owen Wells (fling)
- Eric van der Woodsen (fling)
- Lord Marcus Beaton-Rhodes (dated)
- Jason (fling)
