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On June 30, the It Ends with Us actress, 37, launched a new ad campaign that features a reunion between herself and Zuzanna Szadkowski, 46, who starred as Dorota, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester)’s maid and confidante
The ad features Lively and Szadkowski harkening back to their Gossip Girl days by “spilling the tea”
In honor of the launch of two new flavors of her canned cocktail brand Betty Booze, Blake Lively is spilling the tea with her former Gossip Girl costar Zuzanna Szadkowski.
On Monday, June 30, the It Ends with Us actress, 37, launched a new ad campaign that features a reunion between herself and Szadkowski, 46, and their video features tons of nods to Gossip Girl!
Lively starred in the hit CW series as Serena Van Der Woodsen, an Upper East Side Manhattan high school student whose social life is broadcast to the world by the mysterious Gossip Girl, while Szadkowski starred as Dorota, fellow Upper East Sider Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester)’s maid and constant confidante.
In the new Betty Booze ad — which promotes the brand’s new Betty Booze Vodka Iced Teas — Lively and Szadkowski sit down on a park bench to catch up and, of course, spill some tea.
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After the video begins with a sneaky, Gossip Girl-like onlooker snapping a photo of Lively, the pair sit down and remove their dark sunglasses, before Lively jokes that Szadkowski “sounds different,” poking fun at her character’s accent on the CW series — and she quickly quips back, “Oh, allergies.”
“I have tea,” Szadkowski tells Lively, who shoots back a question: “Good tea?”
“Oh, the best tea,” she answers, before revealing the new can of vodka iced tea, in the new Meyer lemonade and passion fruit flavors.
“Balanced, crisp, nothing artificial,” she adds, pouring her cocktail into a teacup as Lively jokes: “Which is hard to find around these parts.”
After a bit more back and forth, Lively bids Szadkowski goodbye, and the actress falls back into her iconic Polish accent as Dorota.
“Oh Miss Betty,” she finishes, “you’re gonna get us in trouble.”
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“Go. Sip, girl,” Lively teased in the caption of the video, before officially introducing the two new flavors of Betty Booze Vodka Iced Teas, passion fruit and Meyer lemonade.
“Because good tea is worth sharing,” she added.
This isn’t the first time either actress has reunited with their costars of the hit CW series, which aired from 2007 to 2012. Szadkowski reunited with her on-screen husband Aaron Schwartz, and their costars — Chace Crawford, Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick, who starred as Nate Archibald, Vanessa Abrams and Chuck Bass, respectively, throughout the series — back in 2022.
“Briefly #reunited 💕,” Szadkowski captioned an Instagram selfie at the time.
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Lively initially launched her Betty Buzz brand in 2021 with sparkling mixers, later expanding into tequila and bourbon canned cocktails under Betty Booze in 2023.
Earlier this month, the star announced that her beverage brand was launching a pair of vodka iced teas.
“I come from a Southern family, so iced tea, especially in the summertime is a staple,” the actress and entrepreneur told PEOPLE in early June. “Sweet tea, passionfruit tea, tea with fresh lemonade … it all feels like relaxation and peaceful times. Enjoying an iced tea is a feeling as much as an experience to me.”
