Bart Bass

He turned his first profit when he was 22. He used to sneak into hockey games as a kid. He was born into a poor family. He was close friends with Sheikh Hassan and his daughter Iman calls him "Uncle Bart." He eats veal on a regular basis and killed a tiger on safari once. After CeCe Rhodes, Bart is the second recurring character to die.

But to be honest, I haven't seen anything in the last year that suggests you have what it takes. If anything, you've been a disappointment. You opened your heart to Blair and it made you weak. You cannot be one person at work and another one at home. If you're soft, you're soft. And let's face it. You're soft." -The Debarted (3x12)

"Maybe hiding all these years was easier than facing things head on." -The Fugitives (5x23)

"No one does a big romantic gesture better than a Bass." -The Return of the Ring (5x24)

"Blair has nothing to do with the way I've handled this business!" -Chuck

"You didn't try and trade her for a hotel deed? You didn't let everything fall apart when you ran away from her all the way to Europe? You didn't just three months ago nearly bankrupt yourself trying to get her out of her marriage? I had hoped you would have outgrown such foolish behavior but you're still willing to throw everything away for a girl whose done nothing but toy with you." -The Return of the Ring (5x24)

"I can buy whatever I want. It's one of the perks of being really rich." -Gone Maybe Gone (6x1)

Bart is introduced in The Wild Brunch when he throws the annual brunch for his foundation. At the brunch, it's revealed that he is dating Lily van der Woodsen and wants to make it public despite her hesitation. In The Handmaiden's Tale, Lily is invited to a party thrown by Eleanor Waldorf and decides to make Bart jealous by bringing her ex, Rufus Humphrey. They kiss in front of Bart, which prompts him to talk to her,

In Victor Victrola, Chuck discovers Bart and Lily are dating, but also that Bart is still seeing other people. After his proposal to buy a club is rejected by Bart, Chuck tells Lily and she begins to ignore Bart. Chuck eventually tells him what he did, and Bart becomes angry with him; especially after he decided to invest in the club, Victrola, to teach Chuck about responsibility.

During the Christmas season, Bart and Lily have gotten back together. In Roman Holiday, Lily tells Serena and Eric that she and Bart are dating. He proposes on Christmas morning and she doesn't answer right away. Later, after Serena asks her to marry Bart to keep her away from Rufus and her relationship with Dan, she accepts (School Lies). Soon after, the VDWs move into a hotel room with Bart and Chuck, but Bart finds trouble with the arrangement after Serena blames Chuck for a myriad of pranks pulled on her. He attempts to reform him by asking him to be his best man and offering to invest more in Victrola but after that fails, he asks Chuck to move out (The Blair Bitch Project).

At the rehearsal dinner for the wedding, Bart becomes suspicious of Lily and her whereabouts with Rufus (Woman on the Verge). On the morning of the wedding he asks her to meet him at the site of the first building he ever bought and asks her to let Rufus go. She agrees and they marry later that day. Soon after, Bart learns that Chuck is planning to take Blair Waldorf to Europe for the summer. He advises him that he will learn about responsibility and compassion, and that he will return a changed ma

FULL NAME: Bartholomew Cornelius Bass NICKNAME(S): Barty Baby BIRTHPLACE: Bronx, New York City, NY (possibly) RELATIONSHIPS FAMILY: Chuck Bass (son) Jack Bass (brother) Henry Bass (grandson) FRIENDS: Diana Payne ENEMIES: Chuck Bass Jack Bass Rufus Humphrey Blair Waldorf Dan Humphrey Serena van der Woodsen Nate Archibald Georgina Sparks

Bartholomew "Bart" Bass is a recurring character in the Gossip Girl novels and it's television adaptation. He is the father of Chuck Bass and the fourth husband of Lily van der Woodsen.