--- title: Alexis Bledel Hints at Rory's 'Gilmore Girls' Romantic Fate description: The actress teased the future of her character's love life on the Netflix revival, noting that she'll find "closure" with all three exes. canonical: https://time.com/4493867/netflix-gilmore-girls-teaser-hint/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T20:10:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:34.028Z og:title: Alexis Bledel Hints at Rory's 'Gilmore Girls' Romantic Fate og:description: The actress says there will be "closure" with each of her exes on the revival. og:url: https://time.com/4493867/netflix-gilmore-girls-teaser-hint/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd413b3d7c4e25c2c/6988a616524fc079ecdf97bb/alexis-bledel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 9th Annual New York Television Festival - "Us And Them" Series Screening og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alexis Bledel Hints at Rory's 'Gilmore Girls' Romantic Fate twitter:description: The actress says there will be "closure" with each of her exes on the revival. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd413b3d7c4e25c2c/6988a616524fc079ecdf97bb/alexis-bledel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alexis Bledel Hints at Rory's Romantic Fate on the New _Gilmore Girls_ > Sponsored content. 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D Dipasupil—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 14, 2016 8:10 PM UTC We’re still more than two months out from the new four-movie arc of [_Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life_](http://time.com/4426758/gilmore-girls-revival-show-releases-the-first-trailer-and-a-premiere-date/?iid=sr-link3), but the plot is already thickening, so to speak. Alexis Bledel, who’s returning as main character Rory Gilmore, teased some key information about her character’s romantic status on Tuesday. “It think there is satisfying closure for any fans of any of the three couples that tend to get some attention,” [Bledel told _Us Weekly_.](http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/gilmore-girls-alexis-bledel-teases-rorys-romantic-closure-w439649) “But they’re very different interactions. I would say each one of them \[gets\] closure in a different way.” While the actress kept her comments coyly vague enough to keep fans guessing, we [know that all three](http://time.com/4426754/gilmore-girls-tca-panel-trailer/?iid=sr-link1) of her exes — Jared Padalecki’s Dean, Milo Ventimiglia’s Jess, and Matt Czuchry’s Logan — will get some renewed attention. But with “closure” as the key word in Bledel’s comments, it’s highly possible all three might end up out of the picture by the season’s end. In the years since the last _Gilmore Girls_ episode aired, Rory certainly hasn’t been pining after former boyfriends, though: the former _Yale Daily News_ editor has instead been doggedly pursuing her career in journalism — and weathering the industry’s volatile changes, Bledel noted. “She has been working hard, as she does,” Bledel explained. “She started her work as a journalist at the same time that newspapers were going away. 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