A Guide to the Hotties on Incredibly Addictive 'Gossip Girl'

"Gossip Girl" is the December watch that's too fun to miss. What else can be said about the show in which a character says "This bottom is free from first period"? Four episodes into Season 2, there has been betrayals, power trips, secrets revealed, and more sexual fluidity this side of "Euphoria." In its second episode, a conservative New York dowager (the brilliant Lois Smith) who would have been right at home in "The Gilded Age," has her homophobic values challenged by boys in jockstraps (amongst other outrages) while visiting the home Max Wolfe shares with his gay parents, Roy (out actor John Benjamin Hickey) and Gideon (Todd Almond). The scene ended with Roy telling Smith off with Pride flag waving oratory, describing their home as "sex positive, gender fluid, and flashy as fuck." Adding, "I won't allow it to be anything less than that again."

But "Gossip Girl" is hardly political, unless seen as a critique of the one-percent and their children. Most of the time its chronicles the dizzying social media world of the students attending fictional Constance Billard School on the Upper East Side, made famous in the series previous CW incarnation. And this season is proving even more entertaining than the first. Spoiler alert: What other show can promise a thrupple and twincest in the same episode? Also, catch abundant pop culture references, every thing to references to Bertolucci, Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, Blair and Serena (from the previous incarnation), and Grace's birthday gift: a Cameo from Chris Pratt.

Grace, acted like she's a junior league Meryl by Anna van Patten, turns out to be not the nice girl everyone thought she was, cheating on Obie (Elie Brown) to have hot sex with her ex- Matias (Javier Reyes Sanchez). And who can blame her? Obie is so boring, while Matias is so hot. Reyes Sanchez turns out to be one of the numerous hotties on the show this season listed below (with.a nod to hunk from last year who no longer is part of the "Gossip Girl"-verse.

Thomas Doherty (Max Wolfe)

The appropriately named Max Wolfe is Constance's resident hottie with a reputation of being wanted by everyone in sight. Doherty's devilish smile does make him sexy and playing the seductive "bad boy" fits him well. Though last season his affair with teacher Rafa Caparros (Jason Gotay) was much hotter than his current thrupple with Aki (Evan Mock) and Audrey (Emily Alyn Lind). Much of the second episode dealt with Max's attempting to reboot his flailing bad boy rep, but is he slipping into pansexual domesticity this season? .In real-life, the 26-year old Scottish actor told Variety: "I have always seen sexuality as a spectrum. But playing Max, a pansexual character, was incredibly liberating. It was very educational, and it definitely made me challenge my own preconceived notions, my indoctrination, of ‘This is who you love, this is what you do, everything else is wrong.'" Asked about his dating life, "It's just been girls, That's a preference. But 26, living in New York …" He trails off as he gives a devilish smile.

Evan Mock (Aki)

Boyish, pinked-hair Aki spent a good deal of the first season hungering after Max while in a relationship with Audrey, who also liked Max, which led to this season's thrupple. The 25-year old Mock had never acted before "Gossip Girl," having made his name as a model for the brands Louis Vuitton and 1017 Alyx 9SM' He also launched a clothing line called Sorry in Advance in 2019. In June 2021, he launched a collection with the clothing company RVC. His breakout moment came when a video of him skateboarding went viral when singer Frank Ocean posted it. His role was fashioned for him by "Gossip Girl" creator Joshua Safran. "Evan has a softness," Safron told the website Mr. Porter last year. "He's gorgeous, he's a great athlete, he's magnetic and yet he has no ego. He's kind, and generous, and thoughtful. He says ‘thank you' to everybody." Of his sexuality on the show, Mock said: "It's pretty lit, I'm not actually gay in real life, but the character is… I guess… bisexual. I had to make out with [co-star] Thomas [Doherty] and I feel like I'm playing the character, but, for my personal life, I'm also seeing if I like it or not."

Eli Brown (‘Obie' Bergmann IV)

A third male student at Constance is Otto "Obie" Bergmann IV, who often finds himself at odds with his family over his social activism. In the first season, he was dating Julien Calloway (Jordan Alexander), the social media queen bee at the school; but they broke up at the end of the first season. Currently, Julien is attempting to win him back, but he started a new relationship with Grace, the staid scion of a conservative, old money family. The curly-haired, handsome The 23-year old Brown previously appeared on "Pretty Little Lies" and "The Perfectionist." From Oregon, he moved to Brooklyn to be closer to the "Gossip Girl" set. According to PopBuzz, little is known about his personal life, but was said to have dated model Talia Wirkkula-Hibdon.

Pico Alexander (Mike Shubin)

A new addition to Season 2 is a teacher Mike Shubin, played by lanky, bearded Pico Alexander. But unlike last season's Jason Gotay, this teacher doesn't pursue a relationship with a student; instead with a fellow faculty member Kate Keller (Tavi Gevinson). But does he have an ulterior motive in seeking out Kate? Stay tuned for the answer to that one. The 31-year old actor has appeared in more than a dozen films over the past fifteen years, including the Reese Witherspoon comedy "Home Again"; as well as eight television projects, including "Orange is the New Black," "Catch-22," and "Dickinson." But growing a beard for his "GG" role makes Alexander look older, virtually unrecognizable from his clean-shaven roles from his past. The native New Yorker is from a show business family — his father is a cinematographer, his grandfather an actor who worked in Poland. He was named Pico by his granddad. According to a 2017 New York Post profile when he was appearing as a MILF's boy-toy in the off-Broadway play "The Portuguese Kid." During the Post interview, he wore what appeared to be a wedding ring, but is not — rather one his mother gave him. " For now, he lives in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park with two "totally platonic" girlfriends he's known since they were bandmates at Mark Twain Intermediate School 239."

Cole Doman (Rex Huntington)

Poor Rex Huntington, another Constance student. On the current season, he's on the hunt to hook up with Max, and appears to have a number of opportunities, that is until Max's thrupple gets in the way. But while Max and xxx are fluid, Rex is totally gay, as he expressed in this exchange when he attempted a thrupple with two other students. When the woman tells Rex to go down on her, he replies "No. I'm very gay." To which she says: "That's why you should be good at this." On Episode 4, Rex accompanies Aki to a sex store to buy some tools, which led to some speculation as to why. Th3 29-year old Chicago native has had more than his share of LGBTQ+ roles over his career, most notably in the acclaimed indie "Henry Gamble's Birthday Party." Earlier this year he starred in Antonio Marziale' s short film "Starfuckers," that was seen at both the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. "Written and directed by queer actor Antonio Marziale (who also stars), the story has a Hollywood escort (out gay Philly native Cole Doman) whose meeting with a client (Jonathan Slavin) takes an unexpected turn," writes the New York Times in their review.

Javier Reyes Sanchez (Matias)

Grace's complicated sex life includes an ongoing relationship with her ex-, Matias, played by New York actor Javier Reyes Sanchez. He turned out to not the only relationship she's hiding from Obie, whom everyone believes she is dating. The New York-based actor Javier Reyes Sanchez has appeared as a in the feature film "The Will" with Megan Dodds. He also appeared as Finn, one of the lead characters in the Off Broadway Alliance Award Winning theatrical play "Pips Island.". His resume reads that he loves to play all kinds of sports, and also speaks Spanish.

Jason Gotay (Rafa Caparros)

Sadly missing from this season is Jason Gotay, who steamed up the new "GG's" first season with his affair with Max Wolfe. The out, 33-year old actor played Rafa Caparros, a Classics teacher at Constance seduced by his student. Their affair led to some hot, on-screen action; but his character's conscience led to him ending the affair and quitting his job. Perhaps if we are lucky, he will return at some future date. Last year the out actor married actor Michael Hurting; this year he starred in an autobiographical play off-Broadway, called "Where You'll Find Me." About his role on "GG," Gotay told People Magazine: ""What that show brought up for me, more than my own homophobia from my childhood and that shame, was a lot of stuff about my body." Explaining to the magazine that as overweight as a child, he always saw himself that way, but appearing on the show has helped in break that paradigm. ""I kept feeling that imposter syndrome, and I had to have this moment — and I think it came really around Gossip Girl — where I have to start seeing myself the way that other people see me. Because I can get the part, and I can get the validation, but if I don't start believing that I am good enough, I'm never gonna get past that wall. Because that 12-year-old fat kid, he follows me everywhere."