United Kingdom, May 11 -- Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford fears he would have "lost everything" if he'd shot to fame in the social media age.

The 40-year-old actor landed his big break in his 20s when he secured the role of Nate Archibald in the CW drama in 2007, but Chase believes his career might have turned out very differently if platforms like Instagram, Twitter and TikTok had been around during his early days in the spotlight.

During an appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, Chace explained: "I feel really blessed actually. In some weird way Gossip Girl was ahead of his time because it was about this blogger, it was looking at that social media think in a different way.

"I am so thankful that wasn't around wh...