Gossip Lady’s Ivy Dickens, performed by Kaylee DeFer, was the present villain all of us liked to hate due to her late arrival on the Higher East Aspect.

“It was a really attention-grabbing state of affairs for me as a result of I got here in on the finish of season 4,” DeFer, 38, recalled throughout a current look on the “Don’t Fear About It” podcast. “So, think about going into your senior 12 months of highschool with this one class that’s been collectively for 4 years and so they’ve already all dated one another and damaged up with one another and don’t need something to do with each other.”

DeFer, on the flip slide, was “simply so excited to have a job.”

“There’s simply, like, ‘Get out of right here’ [and] I’m like, ‘Please discuss to me,’” DeFer added. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know anybody in New York. Wanna hang around?’ They usually’re like, ‘No, we’re not babysitting.’”

DeFer additional burdened that the whole solid was all “very good” to her however handled the expertise “like a job.”

Gossip Lady, tailored from Cecily Von Ziegesar’s YA e-book collection of the identical identify, aired on The CW between 2007 and 2012. Blake Vigorous, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley and Taylor Momsen performed college students on the elite Constance Billard and St. Jude’s preparatory academies on NYC’s Higher East Aspect.

As the kids navigated high-society life at a younger age, additionally they lived and breathed to be featured on the “Gossip Lady” weblog that was (spoiler alert) run by Badgley’s Dan Humphrey. DeFer, for her half, arrived on the town throughout season 4 because the presumed cousin of Vigorous’s Serena Van der Woodsen.

After Ivy infiltrated her approach into the elite society, it was ultimately revealed that she was employed by Serena’s aunt Carol (Sheila Kelley) as a technique to safe her inheritance. Carol’s actual daughter, Lola (Ella Rae Peck), didn’t need something to do along with her mom or the UES world as she studied appearing in school.

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Whatever the solid’s emotions, DeFer nonetheless had nothing however fond recollections of appearing on Gossip Lady. She famous on the October podcast episode that present creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage wrote the position of Ivy particularly for her after they labored collectively on The Mountain.

“They have been simply the loveliest,” DeFer gushed. “They have been like, ‘Kaylee, the place have you ever been? We forgot about you!’ I’m like, ‘I do know I haven’t labored in three years.’ After which [they] have been like, ‘We need to work with you; we liked working with you on The Mountain.’ They usually introduced me on board, which was the sweetest factor in the entire world [and] actually saved my life — and I stayed within the trade for an additional 5 years.”