Chuck Bass

Chuck Bass
Gossip Girl character
Ed Westwick as Charles Bass
First appearance	Novel: Gossip Girl Television: "Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	Novel: I Will Always Love You Television: "New York, I Love You XOXO" (episode 6.10)
Created by	Character Cecily von Ziegesar Developed for Television Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage
Portrayed by	Ed Westwick
Information
Full name	Charles Bartholomew Bass
Nickname(s)	Chuck (by everyone except Lily)
Aliases	C Television: Henry Prince
Occupation	Television: Entrepreneur High school student (at St. Jude's; graduated)
Title	Television: CEO of Bass Industries
Family	Television: Bartholomew "Bart" Bass (father; deceased) Elizabeth Fisher (mother; alias: Evelyn Bass) Lillian "Lily" van der Woodsen (adoptive mother; née Rhodes) Serena van der Woodsen (adoptive sister) Eric van der Woodsen (adoptive brother)
Spouse(s)	Television: Blair Waldorf (wife)
Children	Television: Henry Bass (with Blair; flash-forward)

Charles Bartholomew Joseph "Chuck" Bass is a fictional character in the novel and television series Gossip Girl. In the TV series, he is portrayed by English actor Ed Westwick. Although he is a secondary antagonist in the original book series, the TV series elevates him to an anti-heroic main character, where he is noted for his financial ambition, hedonism, and personal style.

Since they were children, Chuck has been best friends with Nate Archibald, Serena van der Woodsen, and Blair Waldorf, who is his main romantic interest throughout the series. In the TV series, step-brother to Serena and Eric van der Woodsen.

Chuck Bass is introduced by author Cecily von Ziegesar in her Gossip Girl series of teen novels, the first of which was published in 2002. In the novels, Chuck is a relatively minor character, and has a series of flings with male and female characters across the course of the series. He got his name, Chuck Bass, from his signature chuckle in a bass tone, which often sounds like a raspy whisper. Chuck's role is initially that of an antagonist to the main characters. Chuck resides with his family at the Plaza Hotel on the Upper East Side and attends school at the Riverside Preparatory School for Boys on the Upper East Side, along with scholarship student Dan Humphrey. Chuck is largely friendless, but is tolerated by the others because of his family's enormous wealth. He is described as having flamboyant fashion sense, with a penchant for scarves, and has a pet monkey named Sweetie whom he carries around with him everywhere. Lazy, and vain, Chuck's only interests are sex and money, and he is frequently chided by his father for lacking ambition and performing poorly in school. Following flings with numerous females and males, his only serious relationship comes near the end of the series, when he begins dating Blair Waldorf, a self-obsessed luxury loving teenager. In the twelfth book in the series, Gossip Girl: It Had To Be You (2007), Chuck is rejected from colleges because of poor grades and is sent to military school by his father. When next mentioned in Gossip Girl spin-off The Carlyles (2008), it is stated that Chuck never showed up to military school, and his whereabouts thereafter are unknown. In the thirteenth Gossip Girl novel, I Will Always Love You (2009), it is revealed that Chuck went off to school in California and returned a changed man, and to have dated main character Blair Waldorf in Oxford, England for a year.