Blake Vigorous Brings Again Serena for Gossip Lady Reunion in New Advert

Noticed in Central Park: Blake Vigorous and her Gossip Lady costar Zuzanna Szadkowski.

Vigorous, who performed Serena van der Woodsen on the long-running CW sequence from 2007 to 2012, recruited Szadkowski — best-known for her position as Dorota Kishlovsky — for an advert selling Vigorous’s canned cocktail model, Betty Booze. The clip was shared through YouTube on Monday, June 30, and commenced with the actresses reuniting on a park bench.

“I’ve tea,” Szadkowski says, enjoying on the favored fan idea that Dorota ought to have been Gossip Lady. (Penn Badgley’s Dan was in the end revealed because the face behind the voice, as a substitute.)

“Good tea?” Vigorous replies, to which Szadkowski teases, “The greatest tea.”

Szadkowski then reveals a can of Betty Booze vodka iced tea together with two tea cups. She pours the beverage into the cups, saying, “It’s crisp. Balanced. Nothing synthetic.”

“That’s laborious to search out round these elements,” Vigorous, 37, says. 

“Yeah, no kidding,” Szadkowski, 46, quips.

She then touts a second Betty Booze taste, a ardour fruit vodka iced tea, calling the drink “a naughty little bitch.” 

“So I’ve heard,” Vigorous responds.

“I drank it on the stroll over,” Szadkowski jokes, to which a smiling Vigorous gushes, “I’ve missed you.” 

Vigorous then will get as much as exit, revealing a pair of sweatpants and Ugg boots hiding underneath her high-fashion outfit. (The second seemingly references the now-viral season 6 Gossip Lady episode that by accident confirmed Vigorous sporting cozy garments underneath her couture gown throughout a scene.)

As Gossip Lady followers know all too nicely, Szadkowski portrayed the housekeeper and confidant of Serena’s frenemy, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), in the course of the present’s unique run. Blair, nonetheless, was not talked about within the advert. 

Greater than a decade after the sequence ended, Vigorous, not Serena, is making headlines. The star is at the moment embroiled in a bitter authorized dispute with Justin Baldoni, her director and costar within the 2024 drama It Ends With Us. 

Vigorous sued Baldoni, 41, in December 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of their movie and later orchestrating a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her surrounding the movie’s premiere. 

Baldoni has denied the allegations and filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to each Vigorous and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. Earlier this month, a choose dismissed Baldoni’s swimsuit. Crew Baldoni in the end selected to not file a revised authorized movement, as a substitute selecting to deal with Vigorous’s lawsuit. A trial date for the duo is about for spring 2026. 

“The Court docket’s choice on the movement to dismiss has no impact in any way on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear marketing campaign, and it doesn’t in any manner have an effect on our vigorous protection in opposition to Ms. Vigorous’s claims,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman instructed Us Weekly in a press release. “Discovery is continuing and we’re assured that we are going to prevail in opposition to these factually baseless accusations. As a substitute of revising the prevailing claims, our purchasers shall be pursuing further authorized choices which can be accessible to us.”

Vigorous, for her half, celebrated the authorized victory through Her Instagram Story. 

“Final week, I stood proudly alongside 19 organizations united in defending ladies’s rights to talk up for his or her security,” she wrote on June 9. “Like so many others, I’ve felt the ache of a retaliatory lawsuit, together with the manufactured disgrace that tries to interrupt us.”

She added, “I’m extra resolved than ever to proceed to face for each lady’s proper to have a voice in defending themselves, together with their security, their integrity, their dignity and their story.”