Chuck Bass
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| Chuck Bass | |
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| Name | Charles Bartholomew Bass |
| Portrayed By | Ed Westwick |
| First Appearance | 1.01, "Pilot" |
| Age | 17 |
Charles Bartholomew Bass 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 Ed Westwick in the television series. In the books, Chuck is a secondary antagonist, while in the TV series, he is portrayed as an anti-hero and one of the main characters.
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[edit] Television Series
[edit] Season One
Chuck grew up as the only child of Bart Bass, a self-made billionaire who owns the New York Palace Hotel. Chuck lived amongst equally privileged childhood friends Nate Archibald, Blair Waldorf, and Serena van der Woodsen. Chuck is generally shown as the group's bad boy, and is frequently manipulative. However, later episodes of the show brought out a softer side to his personality for people cares about, most notably Nate and his long-term girlfriend Blair.
In the first episode, Chuck hits on Serena, who has just returned from a year at boarding school. She rejects his advances and storms out on him, and he isn't seen to have any physical attraction to her after that. In the same episode, Chuck also tried to sleep with Jenny Humphrey at the Kiss on the Lips party Blair was hosting. However, he was stopped by Serena's boyfriend and Jenny's older brother Dan, to whom Chuck takes an immediate dislike. Chuck was the only one who knew about Nate and Serena's one night stand, the reason for her leaving town a year ago. However, a furious and hurt Blair also found out and told Dan in the episode The Wild Brunch.
Chuck has a strong loyalty to his lifelong best friend Nate, saving him from trouble when Nate gets into a risky poker game with Carter Baizen. Chuck said that the only things that matter to him are money, the pleasures money brings, and Nate. However, Chuck also cares deeply for Blair. Shortly after she broke up with Nate because of his recurring feelings for Serena, Blair went out to Victrola, the burlesque club that Chuck recently purchased. He then challenges her, causing her to get up on stage with the rest of the dancers. At the end of the night, Blair loses her virginity to Chuck in the back of his limo. Blair warns him to not tell anybody, and once more reconciles with Nate. On Blair's seventeenth birthday, Chuck pulls her aside and awkwardly admits his unwelcome feelings for her, mentioning that he feels sick and can't sleep because of thoughts of her and their night together. This leads Blair to freak out on him. A couple of hours later, Nate fails to show up to the party, instead talking with Jenny. Photos of them hugging are sent around by Gossip Girl, leading Blair to hide out in one of the bedrooms. Chuck gives her a present, the diamond necklace that Blair had been expecting from Nate. The two of them start up a secret affair, though Serena witnesses Blair and Chuck making out at the party.
At the debutante ball, Chuck starts to worry that he will lose Blair to Nate again. Discovering that Nate is pining over Blair again, Chuck attempts to manipulate the events in his favour. However, things backfire and a scene is caused at the ball. When Blair finds out Chuck is behind it, she leaves the ball with Nate. Heartbroken, Chuck leaves New York.
When Chuck returns, he becomes jealous, threatening to tell Nate about his relationship with Blair. Instead, she retorts that she would like to see him try. Vanessa Abrams accidentally caught this conversation on tape while filming a documentary on the school. Trying to make it up to Blair, Chuck buys the tape off Vanessa. However, this tape was actually blank, and Vanessa gave Blair the real one for free. Chuck then decides to exact revenge by sending a tip to Gossip Girl, saying that Blair slept with two guys in only one week. The news spreads like wildfire, and ruins Blair socially within hours. After seeing the bulletin, Nate finds Jenny and asks if it's true. Jenny tells him that Chuck and Blair slept together. This led to Chuck and Nate getting into a fight outside the school, with Nate ending his friendship with Chuck and his relationship with Blair. Blair turns to Chuck when there's no-one else, but he instead rejects her, saying she used to be fascinating to him, but not anymore.
Chuck's father and Serena's mother become engaged, leading the two families to move in together. He begins annoying Serena, particularly because he smokes in her bathroom. He also becomes a brother figure to Eric, something that Serena isn't very happy about. At a family dinner, Serena receives an anonymous package which she opens at the table. It's filled with pornography and she gets mad at Chuck, thinking he was the one who sent it. Chuck insists otherwise and is given a warning by his father. When at school, three crates of champagne are delivered anonymously to Serena. The final straw comes when Eric gives her another of the unsigned packages, this one filled with cocaine. She tells her mother and Bart throws Chuck out. Just after this, Serena discovers that it wasn't Chuck who was sending the packages after all, but her ex-friend Georgina Sparks.
Serena spirals out of control after Georgina continues to blackmail her, and when she spends all night partying, Blair enlists the help of Chuck and Nate. It is revealed that Chuck lost his virginity to Georgina in the sixth grade and he's been 'running from the crazy bitch ever since.' Even though things are still tense between them, Blair suggests that she and Chuck personally find and exact revenge on Georgina. Chuck agrees to this, responding, "Let's get the bitch." When they arrive at the Rolling Stones concert, Georgina has already left with Dan, who has since broken up with Serena after she lied to him.
[edit] Family
[edit] TV series
- Bart Bass (father)
- Lily van der Woodsen (soon to be step-mother)
- Serena van der Woodsen (soon to be step-sister)
- Eric van der Woodsen (soon to be step-brother)
[edit] Books
- Bartholomew Bass (father)
- Misty Bass (mother)
- Donald Bass (older brother)
[edit] Romantic relationships
[edit] TV series
- Georgina Sparks (fling) (Lost his virginity to her in the sixth grade)
- Jenny Humphrey (forced) (Chuck attempted to sleep with her in 1.01 'Pilot'
- Blair Waldorf (lovers) (First slept together in 1.07 Victor, Victrola and broke up in 1.10 Hi, Society after Chuck caused a scene at the debutante ball.)
[edit] Books
- Serena van der Woodsen (forced)
- Donetella Contessa (fling)
- Tiphany (fling)
- Jenny Humphrey (forced)
- Kati Frakas (fling)
- Katie Soave (fling)
- Georgina Sparks (fling)
- All Male-Dutch Snowboarding team (fling)
- Greg (boyfriend)
