According to Joshua Safran, the executive producer of Gossip Girl, who was supposed to be Gossip Girl instead of Dan?

Joshua Safran, who is also the creator of the Gossip Girl reboot, stated that the original intentions of the series were very different. In an interview with The Daily Beast, he suggested that Nate Archibald was initially slated to be the Gossip Girl, not Dan Humphrey.

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