Normally when a show makes it past 100 episodes, the end is near, which is why Gossip Girl fans have been wondering what will happen to Serena, Chuck, Blair and the rest of the gang after this fifth season comes to a close. Fortunately, the show’s creators shared great news with us earlier this morning at the CW offices in Burbank.

“We’re not writing the series finale,” executive producer Joshua Safran said, coyly.

When pushed for more details on future seasons, Stephanie Savage jumped in to explain.

“That’s with so many conversations and people stare at me and roll their eyes and say, ‘Dude, you have to stop asking me this. You shouldn’t be writing the series finale,’” she said. “We checked in with our bosses to make sure we’re not shooting ourselves in the foot.”

While that’s all they could tell us about Gossip Girl‘s future, Joshua and Stephanie couldn’t help but rave about how excited they are for the show to get to the 100th episode, which airs next Monday, Jan. 30.

“To be able to get [to 100 episodes] especially on a serial drama, espeically on a show about young people, especially during a writer’s strike, it’s a big deal,” Stephanie said, graciously.

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Chuck Bass who? TVLine is reporting that Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) has her sights set on the loneliest boy of the Upper East Side! That’s right — the tension between Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Blair is about to turn sexual. ”They share a lot of the same interests,” Gossip Girl Executive Producer Stephanie Savage tells the site. ”And as much as they might want to hate each other, there are a lot of reasons for them to like each other.”

There’s no word yet as to when said hook-up will go down, but we’ll definitely be waiting with bated breath. O-M-G indeed!

Gossip Girl creator Stephanie Savage spilled season 4 secrets with HollywoodLife.com – including when Little J is making her big comeback!

We’ve all heard that rumors that 17-year-old Taylor Momsen‘s real-life bratty behavior was affecting her work on Gossip Girl, and we’ve got the scoop on her return to the small screen as Jenny ‘Little J’ Humphrey. So when will Taylor be returning, if at all?

“She’s definitely back, and I don’t want to say exactly when, but it will be much later than episode 4,” the CW series’ creator, Stephanie Savage, revealed exclusively to HollywoodLife.com during a phone interview Sept. 10. Well, that’s a relief for Jenny fans — but will she be the changed woman we hoped she’d become last season?

“The changes we’ve been tracking in Jenny on the show are definitely related to her growing up and becoming comfortable on the Upper East Side, which is what we’ve seen building since season 2. She’s come back to us as a slightly different version of Jenny. She’s definitely thinking about her future, trying to clear her head and get out of the Upper East Side game and focus on fashion. Of course, that clear-headedness WILL be challenged!”

So what other secrets did Stephanie spill?

• Well, Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester) may be doing the nasty, but there’s a good chance they’re NOT getting back together — this season, at least. “Happiness does NOT generate a lot of story,” she said, adding, “Blair and Chuck will very much be in each other’s stories and are very much working out their issues with each other. As Serena (Blake Lively) says to Blair in the second episode, ‘You don’t have to forgive him.’ They’re a long way from reconciliation and peace.”

• There are cameos galore! “We’ve been lucky with our cameos – we have two episodes that focus on Fashion’s Night Out, including a party at the Boom Boom Room hosted by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Tim Gunn also appears as himself. Blair has a big 20th birthday party too and there are some fun cameos there!”

• Gossip Girl plans on jet-setting! “We had so much fun doing the Paris episodes, but now that we’ve done it we’re pretty fearless and ready to do it again. We want to take the show on the road, to Tokyo or somewhere in Italy or Buenos Aires. World travel is pretty organic to these guys!  We’d love to do a spring break episode where they go skiing in Aspen or Whistler.”

• Real-life lovers Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are NOT trying to get their characters to reunite! “There’s no pressure from them – not at all! The actors are really open to doing whatever, but the fans definitely want [Dan and Serena] back together.”

• WILL we ever find out who Gossip Girl is? “Maybe on the last episode ever,” Stephanie told us. “It’s a larger conversation for the entire series [of Cecily von Ziegesar's books] and not just for the television series!”

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So…Chuck Bass and Rose Nylund walk into a bar….Sounds like a joke, but if it was up to Gossip Girl creator Stephanie Savage, this joke’s punchline would be reality!

If the season finale of Gossip Girl didn’t throw you for a loop, just wait till you hear about creator Stephanie Savage’s new potential casting move: she wants Betty White to play a GG grandma!

“We still do have a couple of grandparents to cast!’ Stephanie told HollywoodLife.com exclusively at the Gracie Awards Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. May 25 when we brought up the possibility of bringing the 88-year-old octogenarian onto the CW show. But her real dream is a Mad Men/Gossip Girl crossover. “This is just my imagination, but I’d love to do a crossover with Mad Men where we met one of the relatives of our young character back in the ‘60s,” she said.

Given Stephanie’s vivid imagination, we had to ask what’s become of our beloved Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), who was shot in the epic season finale cliffhanger. “We wanted to do something to Chuck that was going to be a real game changer, so IF he comes back in the fall we can assume that he’s going to be kind of a changed man,” she confided to us.

So Betty White, Mad Men and a reformed Chuck Bass are all tantalizing possibilities for season four of Gossip Girl! Make it happen, Stephanie! XOXO, HollywoodLife.com.

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