As if we weren’t already beside ourselves with anticipation about series two of Nobody Wants This, our excitement has been ramped up by some truly inspired casting news: Leighton Meester is joining the cast.

This is brilliant news for so many reasons. Firstly, Meester is of course the wife of Adam Brody – who plays the show’s romantic lead, rabbi Noah Roklov – so we can’t wait to see them act alongside one another. Brody already can’t say enough great things about his wife, telling Stylist in his cover interview last year that she’s always the person he looks for in a crowded room. “When you’re out somewhere in public, there’s something very nice about seeing the person you’re with from across the room talking to someone else,” he said. “It’s a totally different perspective and, ideally, it’s a very lovely and flattering one. In my case, it definitely is.”

Secondly, this casting news is also giving us a Gossip Girl reunion to fulfil all our nostalgic dreams. Brody’s Nobody Wants This costar Kristen Bell was the voice of Gossip Girl (“you know you love me” etc), and Meester played Blair Wardolf in the show (Meester and Bell also starred together in Veronica Mars). Anyone else praying for Penn Badgley and Mischa Barton cameos too?

Thirdly, Meester’s role in Nobody Wants This sounds perfect. Variety reports that she will join the cast as Abby, the “middle school nemesis” of Joanne (Bell) who has since become “an Instagram mommy influencer”.

And finally, Meester is brilliant, and we haven’t seen enough of her on screen in the last few years.

Nobody Wants This season 2: Leighton Meester is joining the cast of Adam Brody’s Netflix romcom