Penn Badgley Comments on Blake Lively Relationship During Gossip Girl

Photo Credit: @callherdaddy | YouTubePenn Badgley, known for his roles in Gossip Girl and You, has sparked renewed interest in his past relationship with Blake Lively after making rare comments about their time together. Speaking on a podcast, Badgley described the challenges of dating Lively while portraying her on-screen partner. His reflections shed light on how fame, character association, and youth shaped his experience.

Here’s what we know about what Badgley said and the context behind it.What did Penn Badgley say about Blake Lively?Penn Badgley reflected on his relationship with Blake Lively during an April 23, 2025, appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast.He described dating Lively while filming Gossip Girl as “the struggle,” citing the difficulty in separating their off-screen relationship from their on-screen personas.



He said, “When you do a television show, you’re doing it constantly...

you feel like you’re constantly needing to prove yourself.” Badgley explained that the show’s demanding nature, combined with public attention, made it hard to separate his identity from his character, Dan Humphrey. “You’re seen as this person, you’re called their name out on the street.

.. I was 20.

I was 21, 22, so I didn’t have the emotional maturity to understand, to differentiate myself just in terms of self-worth,” he said. “What people seemed to think of Dan seemed to be what people thought of me,” he added.Lively and Badgley dated from 2007 to 2010 while starring together on Gossip Girl, which ran until 2012.

Despite their breakup, they continued working together professionally without issues. On a September episode of his Podcrushed podcast, Badgley stated, “We were exes for nearly half of the run of the entire series..

. I don’t even think, in my memory, there was not one bit of strangeness. It wasn’t even a thing.

”Badgley is now married to Domino Kirke, with whom he shares a son and is expecting twins. Lively married actor Ryan Reynolds in 2012, and they have four children together.The post Penn Badgley Comments on Blake Lively Relationship During Gossip Girl appeared first on ComingSoon.

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