Penn Badgley started working as a child actor at 12. He said on "Call Her Daddy" he felt tired and dried up when he was cast in "Gossip Girl" at 20.

Penn Badgley has romanced a number of women as Joe Goldberg on You, but in real life, he’s happily been in a relationship with his wife since 2014. However, the actor also dated two other recognizable women during his time in the public eye.

Penn Badgley and Blake Lively dated and broke up in real life while their Gossip Girl characters, Dan Humphrey and Serena van der Woodsen, were going through an entirely separate set of relationship issues.