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‘Gossip Girl’ Creator Joshua Safran on Why Ivanka and Jared Are Not Welcome

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The creator of HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot talks about the “Woke Gossip Girl” criticisms, his diverse cast, and the “telltale rim job.”

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Joshua Safran has seen the tweets and the think pieces. He knows his reimagining of Gossip Girl, the aughts teen soap opera trailing a coterie of naughty Upper East Side elites, has received the scathing sobriquet “Woke Gossip Girl”—based, it seems, on the trailer and a handful of quotes he’s...

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