Summary
The hit TV series Gossip Girl is based on the rarefied world of the elite Spence School in Manhattan. Charlotte Methven, above, who was a pupil there in the 1980s (along with Gwyneth Paltrow), gives us the lowdown on what it's like to be one of the girls
From Dallas to Dynasty, Miami Vice to The OC and Sex and the City, television viewers around the world have long relied on American dramas for a weekly fix of glamour and excess. For me, like so many others, these shows have been the most basic form of escapism, transporting us to a world so ludicrously beautiful and comfortingly unrealistic that we sit back and savour every moment, safe in the knowledge that our own lives could never reach such decadent heights.See the full content of this document
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I Was a Real-Life Gossip Girl
Which is why I find Gossip Girl - ITV's hot and much-hyped new show about a group of overprivileged teens growing up in Manhattan - slightly disconcerting. Though I am utterly hooked on it, for me it's not exactly escapism, and it's definitely not unrealistic. In fact, in many ways, watching it is like seeing a raunchier and somewhat exaggerated version of my own American childhood played out on the screen.
Today, I'm a 34-year-old m...See the full content of this document
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