Spotted in Central Park: Blake Lively and her Gossip Girl costar Zuzanna Szadkowski.
Lively, who played Serena van der Woodsen on the long-running CW series from 2007 to 2012, recruited Szadkowski — best-known for her role as Dorota Kishlovsky — for an ad promoting Lively’s canned cocktail brand, Betty Booze. The clip was shared via YouTube on Monday, June 30, and began with the actresses reuniting on a park bench.
“I have tea,” Szadkowski says, playing on the popular fan theory that Dorota should have been Gossip Girl. (Penn Badgley’s Dan was ultimately revealed as the face behind the voice, instead.)
“Good tea?” Lively replies, to which Szadkowski teases, “The best tea.”
Szadkowski then reveals a can of Betty Booze vodka iced tea along with two tea cups. She pours the beverage into the cups, saying, “It’s crisp. Balanced. Nothing artificial.”
“That’s hard to find around these parts,” Lively, 37, says.
“Yeah, no kidding,” Szadkowski, 46, quips.
She then touts a second Betty Booze flavor, a passion fruit vodka iced tea, calling the drink “a naughty little bitch.”
“So I’ve heard,” Lively responds.
“I drank it on the walk over,” Szadkowski jokes, to which a smiling Lively gushes, “I have missed you.”
Lively then gets up to exit, revealing a pair of sweatpants and Ugg boots hiding under her high-fashion outfit. (The moment seemingly references the now-viral season 6 Gossip Girl episode that accidentally showed Lively sporting cozy clothes under her couture dress during a scene.)
As Gossip Girl fans know all too well, Szadkowski portrayed the housekeeper and confidant of Serena’s frenemy, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), during the show’s original run. Blair, however, was not mentioned in the ad.
More than a decade after the series ended, Lively is still making headlines with her latest projects. Most recently, she starred in 2025’s Another Simple Favor with Anna Kendrick, the sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor.
Szadkowski, for her part, has since starred in the hit historical series The Gilded Age in 2022 and 2025’s Étoile.
