{"id":2336352,"date":"2026-03-19T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2336352"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:39:00","slug":"gossip-girl-stars-reunite-with-taylor-momsen-in-the-pretty-recklesss-new-video-for-when-i-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gossip-girl-stars-reunite-with-taylor-momsen-in-the-pretty-recklesss-new-video-for-when-i-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gossip Girl&#8217; Stars Reunite With Taylor Momsen in The Pretty Reckless\u2019s New Video for \u2018When I Wake Up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.0\">The Pretty Reckless released a video for the band\u2019s new single, \u201cWhen I Wake Up.\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.1\">In the video, Taylor Momsen shares screen time with her former <em data-node-id=\"2.1.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em> co-stars, Jessica Szohr and Connor Paolo.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.2\">Momsen previously referenced her <em data-node-id=\"2.2.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em> character, Jenny Humphrey, on the cover of The Pretty Reckless\u2019s forthcoming album, <em data-node-id=\"2.2.3\">Dear God<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Taylor Momsen might have ended her time on Gossip Girl prematurely, but she still has love for her <em data-node-id=\"4.1\">Gossip Girl <\/em>co-stars\u2014and even featured two of them in The Pretty Reckless\u2019s latest music video, \u201cWhen I Wake Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The video largely takes place from Momsen\u2019s point of view as she embarks on a wild night out. After having a cup of black coffee spiked with liquor, she heads to a bar to meet up with her friends. Jessica Szohr, who starred as Vanessa Abrams in <em data-node-id=\"5.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em>, is seen playing a heated game of foosball alongside Connor Paolo, who played Serena van der Woodsen\u2019s younger brother, Eric, in the show.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Momsen has a true reunion with Szohr and Paolo in the bar\u2019s photo booth and takes multiple pictures with each of them. After Momsen leaves the bar, she finds herself in bed next to Paolo as he hooks up with a girl. (Paolo\u2019s <em data-node-id=\"7.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em> counterpart was gay in the show.)<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-17\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"youtube\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-18\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Szohr and Paolo\u2019s cameos in \u201cWhen I Wake Up\u201d come after Momsen subtly referenced her own <em data-node-id=\"10.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em> character, Jenny Humphrey, on the cover of The Pretty Reckless\u2019s forthcoming album, <em data-node-id=\"10.3\">Dear God<\/em>. In the album cover, the singer wears a blue plaid pinafore dress similar to the uniform that Humphrey would wear in the show while attending Constance Billard School for Girls.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"instagram\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-19\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Momsen notably left <em data-node-id=\"12.1\">Gossip Girl <\/em>as a series regular after the third season of the show to focus on her music career. During her November 2025 appearance on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Zpzfe7gSjY\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Zpzfe7gSjY\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Call Her Daddy podcast,\" data-node-id=\"12.3\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"12.3.0\">Call Her Daddy<\/em> podcast,<\/a> the singer revealed that she didn\u2019t tell her fellow castmates about her exiting the series. \u201cI kind of just Irish-dipped. I just wasn\u2019t on the script the next week,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cThey all knew I was making music. They all knew I had a band. I would play them stuff because I was working on the first record while I was on the show,\u201d Momsen added. \u201cI would come in and play songs\u2026but I don\u2019t think anyone knew how serious I was at that stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Leaving the contract was a difficult task, with Warner Bros. Television even calling her \u201cungrateful\u201d for wanting to quit the show.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI just went, \u2018Fuck you. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. You\u2019re not in my shoes, so how dare you judge this?&#8217;\u201d she recalled. \u201cI was very defensive, but it came down to they wouldn\u2019t let me out of the contract. The head of Warner Bros. said, \u2018Fuck Taylor Momsen. No fucking way.\u2019\u201d Momsen was later written out of <em data-node-id=\"15.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em> by its creators, Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, but did make a cameo in the 2012 series finale episode.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cAs a fan of television and a fan of the shows, I love when you have the full cast together again,\u201d Momsen said of her 2012 <em data-node-id=\"16.1\">Gossip Girl<\/em> return. \u201cYou want to full-circle that and round it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-20\" data-node-id=\"17\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-yj5rqk e94w1mj12\">\n<h6 class=\"css-lqkpv4 e94w1mj10\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj8\">Related Stories<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k1\"\/><\/h6>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN The Pretty Reckless released a video for the band\u2019s new single, \u201cWhen I Wake Up.\u201d In the video, Taylor Momsen shares screen time with her former Gossip Girl co-stars, Jessica Szohr and Connor Paolo. Momsen previously referenced her Gossip Girl character, Jenny Humphrey, on the cover of The Pretty Reckless\u2019s forthcoming album, Dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[274717,452566,285977,285684,441858,452565,441118],"class_list":["post-2336352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-96ee236b-7a7e-480f-8738-be01623482c2","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-3","tag-shorttitle-taylor-momsen-reunites-with-gossip-girl-co-stars","tag-subsection-movies-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gossip-Girl-Stars-Reunite-With-Taylor-Momsen-in-The-Pretty.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336354,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336352\/revisions\/2336354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}