Georgina Sparks

Infobox character| Title: Gossip Girl
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name = Georgina Sparks
series = Gossip Girl


caption = Michelle Trachtenberg as Georgina Sparks
first = Book Series:
Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That
TV Series:
Desperately Seeking Serena
last = TV Series:
Much 'I Do' About Nothing
cause = Sent to a Boot Camp For Troubled Girls
creator = Cecily von Ziegesar
portrayer = Michelle Trachtenberg
nickname = TV Series: G, Georgie
alias = Sarah, Svetlana
gender = Female
age = 17-18 (book series)
17 (TV series)
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specialty = Blackmail
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Georgina Sparks is a minor character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series and got into the TV series as a secondary antagonist where she is portrayed by actress Michelle Trachtenberg in Season 1.

Book Series Background and Overview

Georgina Sparks, a wealthy girl and local Manhattan celebutante, meets Nate Archibald in rehab. The two date for a while, and one night, Nate comes over to her mansion. While he is there, Georgina overdoses on various pills, and Nate saves her life by calling their drug counselor. Afterwards, Nate and Georgina go to Sun Valley for spring break, and Georgina briefly meets Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf (it is hinted that Georgina and Serena previously met in boarding school). Georgina's relationship with Nate ends when she and Chuck are arrested for streaking on a public highway. She then goes back to rehab, this time in Switzerland.

TV Series Background

Georgia is from a wealthy family who now live in the country side. She attended boarding school in Switzerland, and was a bad influence on it girl Serena van der Woodsen.

eason 1

Georgina Sparks, a girl from Serena van der Woodsen's past who used to party with her, returns to Manhattan from Switzerland. At the same time, Serena and her friends are busy preparing for the SAT.

Serena plans to study with Dan Humphrey, but Georgina wants to hang out. Hesitant at first, Serena finally goes with Georgina to a bar, and she slips back into her party girl behavior after Georgina secretly pours liquid ecstasy in Serena's soda. After the wild night with Georgina, Serena wakes the next morning in a hangover and realizing she forgot about her study date with Dan, Serena asks Chuck Bass to cover for her. He tells Dan that she has a horrible case of food poisoning, which is why she couldn't come. Serena meets Dan that afternoon and convinces him that the food poisoning is true and that she will meet him tomorrow for the test. Georgina calls her again, asking her to go to dinner with her. Serena says no at first, but when Georgina says there will be no liquor there and that she really inspires her to get her own life together, she finally agrees.

Impressed, Serena meets Georgina for dinner, and during the dinner, Georgina compliments her on how much she's changed. When Serena gets up from the table to attempt calling Dan, Georgina drugs Serena's Diet Coke. Serena wakes up the next morning in Georgina's apartment, and she doesn't know why. Serena realizes she is late for the test and calls Chuck to keep the doors open for her. Instead , he gets a girl to pose as Serena to take the test for her. Dan finds out and is very worried about Serena. However, Serena can't tell Dan the truth because it is revealed that there is a secret that Georgina and Serena share that could ruin the both of them. Back at Georgina's apartment, Serena tells her to never contact her again. Georgina gets very mad at Serena and threatens to reveal the secret, but Serena says that if she goes down, then Georgina is going down with her. The episode ends with Georgina meeting Dan on the street, introducing herself as Sarah. It seems that Georgina has even more plans to ruin Serena's life.

In the next episode, Georgina is continuing the charade that she is Sarah and has become Dan (and Vanessa)'s friend. During a dinner with Serena, her brother, and their mom, she reveals that she saw Eric kissing another guy, which results in Eric leaving the table and their mother in shock. Georgina has also sent Serena another present: a video with Serena and Georgina on it that shocks and scares Serena. Then, still posing as Sarah, she meets with Serena and Dan, and Serena discovered that the girl Dan had met was actually Georgina. At the end of the episode, Serena confronts Georgina about the video and the incident with Eric. Georgina says that it was an accident and she had never meant to hurt Eric, but Serena doesn't believe her. Angered, Georgina remarks that maybe it wasn't an accident and that she knows more about Serena and the people around her than Serena does. Serena is left dumbfounded as Georgina catches up with Dan.

In the next episode, we see Georgina trying to call Serena, who has been missing. All her friends and family are worried about her. Dan, who is looking for Serena, meets Georgina on the street and talks to her about his troubles with Serena. Then, Dan suddenly gets a call from a bartender who says that he found Serena's phone and tells him she left it there after she left with 3 guys. Thinking she's cheated on him, Dan continues to search for Serena. Meanwhile, Blair Waldorf finds Serena drunk and takes her back to her house. With the help of Nate and Chuck, Blair helps take Serena upstairs and get sobered up. After Dan realized she was there, he immediately goes to Blair's house to ask what she did last night. She lies and tells him that she did cheat on him to cover up another secret. Dan breaks up with Serena and leaves. She then tells Blair she didn't cheat on Dan and she can't tell them why she lied. Blair finally gets Serena to reveal the secret, and Serena tells them that a year ago she, Georgina, and a guy named Pete were staying in a hotel room together. What Serena didn't know at the time was that Pete and Georgina had secretly hidden a video camera to film a sex tape of Serena. However, Serena refuses to have sex with Pete, repeatedly saying it was too hot, and encouraged him to take some cocaine instead. Pete ends up dying of an overdose of cocaine, and Serena is left feeling responsible for his death. She reveals that this is the true reason she left for boarding school and that Georgina was blackmailing her with the video of that incident.

She also says that Georgina is posing as a girl named Sarah and has become friends with Dan. She is afraid that Georgina will tell Dan about the video and that he will never want to see her again. She tells Nate and Blair not to trust anything she says. All three, including Chuck, who already knows Georgina, decided to help Serena, although Serena had begged them not to do anything about it. Later, in a phone conversation between Nate and Vanessa, Nate reveals to Vanessa that Sarah's real name is Georgina and warns her not to trust her. After this, Vanessa confronts Georgina about it, but Georgina runs away. After Vanessa tells Dan of her deception, he follows Georgina and asks her why she lied to them. She lies to Dan that she has an abusive boyfriend and that she had to change her name to hide from him. She also tells Dan that she is falling in love with him. They walk out toward the street, missing Rufus' band performance. Meanwhile, after facing her past and forgiving herself, Serena finally decides to tell Dan the truth. She goes to the concert to look for him, but she is unsuccessful. Soon afterwards, her phone rings, and it turns out to be Georgina calling from Dan's cell phone. Serena tells her she is no longer scared of her, but Georgina threatens to have sex with Dan before hanging up. This reveals that Georgina has no real feelings for Dan and that she is just using him to torture Serena. Georgina gets off of the phone and lies to Dan, telling him that it was her mother. Georgina kisses Dan and he kisses back thinking that Serena had cheated on him so this was his way of being even. Together they walk off into the night.

In "Much 'I Do' About Nothing", Serena nearly attacks Georgina when she is over at Dan's. When Dan discovers the truth, he calls and goes to Blair's and tricks Georgina by getting her where they first met. He ends his relationship with Georgina and her parents along with Blair, who devised the situation with Chuck, are intending to take her to a boot camp for troubled girls.

Differences between the novels and TV series

* In the books, Georgina is wild and known for doing crazy things for no apparent reason. In the TV series, she is more cunning and calculated.
* In the books, Georgina Sparks is an ex-girlfriend of Nate's from rehab (Georgina, briefly, met Serena and Blair in Sun Valley), while in the TV series she doesn't know Nate and is a past friend and bad influence on Serena.
* In the book, Georgina goes to rehab in Switzerland, while in the TV series Georgina returns from Switzerland to Manhattan.

Casting

At first, The OC actress Mischa Barton was signed on to play Georgina Sparks but when that didn't work out, actress Michelle Trachtenberg, known from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", signed on to play her.

Flings and romantic relationships

Book Series

* Nate Archibald (lovers/dated)
* Chuck Bass (one-night stand)

Television Series

*Chuck Bass
** Lost his virginity to her in the 6th Grade.

* Dan Humphrey
**Start Up: Woman on the Verge (117)
**Broke Up: Much "I Do" About Nothing (118)
***Reason: Dan learned the truth about Georgina.