WH Communications Director Hope Hicks Was On The Cover Of A 'Gossip Girl' Spinoff Series - Gothamist

Spotted: Hicks with Sarah Huckabee Sanders at Trump Tower on August 15th. (Getty Images)

Hope Hicks will be the Interim White House Director of Communications, following Anthony Scaramucci's brief but beautifully memorable run earlier this summer. Hicks, 28, is best known as Trump's press secretary during his presidential campaign, but for fans of the esteemed NYC author and Gossip Girl creator Cecily von Ziegesar, she might be known for something...different.

..Gossip Girl series spun off a series, The It Girl. Covergirl for The It Girl was a 17yo Hope Hicks, now WH Dir. of Strategic Communication http://pic.twitter.com/gvgZA1tNmv

— Jessica (@JessicaGoldstei) May 31, 2017

You see, long before there was Gossip Girl the show, there was Gossip Girl the series, which also celebrated things like $1200 shoes for teens, eating disorders and Upper East Side private schools, but made Chuck Bass way more of a jerk. The "book" series was popular in the aughts, and in it, the character Jenny Humphrey—played by Taylor Momsen in the show—is very poor and unfortunate because she lives on the Upper West Side and shops at Urban Outfitters.

Somehow, Jenny manages to overcome these challenges and in 2005 she got her own spinoff series, The It Girl. Hope Hicks, then a teen model, was on the cover, holding something called a "Manolo Blahnik."

Let's look at it again.

Hope Hicks = Marnie Michaels. Also, my mind is boggled that she was the cover model for The It Girl. http://pic.twitter.com/XDiviLggoz

— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) June 25, 2016

And now, here we are.

Hope Hicks, a longtime aide to President Trump, will replace Anthony Scaramucci as an interim White House communications director. http://pic.twitter.com/1CkjEjvAnE

— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 16, 2017

Vogue describes Hicks as "a former model and lacrosse champion from Greenwich, Connecticut." Later, Hicks did PR for Ivanka Trump's organization, in August 2014 she started working for the Trump Organization, and at some point during the presidential campaign, sans any political experience, she started transcribing Trump's tweets.

Her bff is happy for her:

Congratulations to my talented friend & colleague Hope Hicks on being named WH Communications Director. I know she will do an amazing job!

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 17, 2017

But other than that, reaction to her new appointment has been mixed.

POLITICO: New Communications Director Hope Hicks' motto is "let Trump do as he pleases." So the nightmare continues. https://t.co/MA2MLwuZea

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 16, 2017

xoxo Gossip Girl

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