With this statement, he effectively restarted speculation about the two women’s off-screen relationship.

He elaborated, “Blake is very much in the moment, Blake knows what’s happening.

Have you been to this restaurant?'”

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester smiling

But did they genuinely have an issue with each other at any point?

Lively then interjects, “And everyone knows blondes are nicer.”

Some awkward laughs follow, then a deathly silence, with Meester giving Lively some serious side-eye.

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester on the set of Gossip Girl

An unnamed source also disclosed toHollywood Lifein 2011 that the co-leads had a big falling out over costumes.

The tension between them was so palpable that several people felt pressured to take sides.

Why don’t they say that George Clooney and Brad Pitt don’t get along?

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester on the set of Gossip Girl

It’s always the girls."

“Everyone wants to know what’s happening on set.

There isn’t anything shocking to write about,” he said.

Elsewhere, Amy Tagliamonti, who did makeup on the show, agreed.

[…] Everyone was just doing their thing."