Charles Bartholomew "Chuck" Bass is a main character in the Gossip Girl television adaptation and a recurring character in the series of novels with the same name. He is portrayed by Ed Westwick. They marry in the series finale. He is best friends with Nate Archibald.
Chuck is generally shown throughout the first two seasons as the group's bad boy, and is frequently manipulative. However, a softer side to his personality is formed more for people cares about as the series progresses, most notably Nate and Blair. He often blames himself for his mother's death even though it isn't his fault, and he has a tendency to not completely trust people and is always in search of ways to succeed.
Chuck is orphaned in his senior year at high school due to the death of his father in a car accident, before being adopted by Lily van der Woodsen , his stepmother, and the only parent who Chuck really connected to and loved unconditionally. In the novels , Chuck is the son of Bart and Misty Bass. Chuck's role is initially that of an antagonist to the main characters. 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. 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.
In It Had To Be You , 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 , it is stated that Chuck never showed up to military school, and his whereabouts thereafter are unknown. Chuck also owns a monkey named Sweetie, gifted from Georgina Sparks ' family after the Bass' bailed her out of a situation, and he is known to bring Sweetie everywhere with him. It's also alluded to on several occasions that Chuck could be bisexual, as he attempted being gay more than once.
