Leighton Meester Won 2025 With ‘Nobody Wants This’ & ‘I Love LA’

Leighton Meester didn’t disappear from TV screens after her reign as Gossip Girl’s Queen B came to an end in 2012 — but she hasn’t had as buzzy a year until this one. In 2025, Meester was a scene-stealer in multiple hit shows, not only showing off her range in period and police dramas, but tapping into her Blair Waldorf energy once again, and even winking at her fans by playing opposite her IRL husband, Adam Brody. As anyone who’s been a Meester fan for all these years can attest, in 2025, we were so back.

To fully explain why this year was a Meester masterpiece, let’s look back at her career. Once Gossip Girl ended in 2012, the actor stepped away from television for about half a d...