

While at work, Blair is given the chance to sabotage Dan but chooses not to. Blair calls her author, and Dan calls his, and both can attend. They begin to compete, and eventually make a bet that whoever can bring the best author to the W Party that night can stay at the magazine while the other resigns. Blair gets an internship at W Magazine, but is taken aback when Dan also secures one there. In The Kids Are Not Alright, Dan calls Blair a dictator of taste when it comes to fashion, which makes her realize that maybe her future lies in working for a fashion magazine. They find they have similar interests in movies and museums, and begin to secretly hang out. During Winter Break, Serena, Nate, and Chuck are all busy, leaving Dan and Blair the only ones still in town. They go together, and find Damien Dalgaard, who accompanies them on their mission for the rest of the day in The Townie. They ask Gossip Girl, who provides them with an address in Connecticut. Blair and Dan again team up to save Rufus Humphrey and Lily van der Woodsen's marriage after William van der Woodsen arrives in town to ruin it ( Ex-Husbands and Wives).Īfter Serena is drugged, Blair and Dan work together to find Juliet Sharp and take her down, as well as find out what her motives are for destroying Serena's life. However, she has to play referee between Vanessa and Olivia Burke, after they start behaving jealously toward each other after a threesome with Dan. In The Last Days of Disco Stick, Blair stars in a musical production written by Dan for the Tisch kids. Over Blair's games, Dan announces it was a set up to get Blair more popularity and tells everyone to stay and party with him, which they do ( The Freshmen). He does, but Blair embarrasses Georgina and invites everyone to go to a bar with her. Still wanting to be queen but feeling she's losing to Georgina, she asks Dan to take her to Georgina's rooftop party. Angry, Dan instills doubt in Blair, who then humiliates herself in front of Chuck ( Pret-a-Poor-J).ĭan and Blair begin attending NYU and start becoming friendlier. He convinces her to take a chance and do it, until Vanessa Abrams admits to him that Blair and Chuck recently used her as a pawn in one of their games. Later, Serena brings Blair to Dan to talk her into telling Chuck Bass how she really feels about him. When Blair is rejected from Yale due to an anonymous tip that she hazed a teacher, she blames Dan for tipping them off, but he later tells her it was Rachel ( The Age of Dissonance). However, Dan begins to dislike Blair more when he learns she started the rumor he was sleeping with Rachel Carr in Carrnal Knowledge. In the second season, they still stick to interacting only when Serena is involved. Blair and Dan work together in the finale Much 'I Do' About Nothing, in order to take down Georgina Sparks, who has returned and started blackmailing Serena. They get on slightly better terms after Dan talks to Blair after she is humiliated by her mother and Serena ( Bad News Blair). After this, their only interactions are usually when Serena is involved. Blair tells Dan that Serena slept with Nate Archibald, then ran away and lied about it. They meet in The Wild Brunch, after Jenny Humphrey reveals Dan is her brother and that he went out with Serena van der Woodsen the night before. However, in the end of the series, they manage to reconcile by the five years flash-forward.ĭan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf do not have a friendship or romantic relationship in the Gossip Girl novels, although some tension is portrayed.īlair and Dan start out as enemies in the first season. By the beginning of the sixth season, they are no longer friends. In season five, they enter into a short-lived relationship which ends as Blair ultimately chooses to be with Chuck. Unlike most of the friendships on the show, their friendship is based on a mutual interest in culture including literature, movies, and art.

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Blair and Dan begin the series as strangers before becoming enemies, but eventually develop a friendship.
