Emily Bishop, Lauren Graham, and Alexis Bledel (Picture: Netflix)

For Gilmore Girls fans, there has long been an obsession with the final four words of the show – and now the stars of the show have admitted that they were left ‘surprised’ and ‘taken aback’ when they discovered them.

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Those four words have been hinted at by the show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino for years, but after she departed in 2006 the show continued on without her and so fans were never privy to just how the show may have ended.

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk though, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, who play Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, admitted that their first reaction was shock.



‘I was surprised,’ said Lauren.


Alexis added: ‘I was surprised as well, a bit taken aback really, and then I thought, “of course Amy would do that!”‘

Lauren, Alexis, and Scott Patterson, who plays Luke (Picture: Netflix)

Lauren also revealed that Amy refused to put the four words down on paper so they were not in the script, but that Alexis, who played her on-screen daughter Rory, had always known what the four mysterious words were.

‘I somehow missed the entire train on this,’ revealed Lauren, adding that she ‘had to be told at work, halfway through filming’.

Still Lauren does have some words of advice for fans who have been building up to this conclusion for nine long years: ‘They are only four words guys, we can only do so much!’

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Luckily for everyone, we can finally hear those final four words for ourselves when Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life airs on Netflix on November 25.

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