Entertainment

19 Photos of the 'One Tree Hill' Cast That Will Make You So Nostalgic For Its CW Glory

It was a sad day in 2012 when CW fans lost the long-running (and amazing, might I add) teen drama, One Tree Hill. Was anyone ready to say goodbye to the series best character Sophia Bush's Brooke Davis? Absolutely not — I definitely wasn't. Because there's only one Tree Hill, as Karen told Lucas and Haley later told Jamie and no series could ever take its place.

So, in honor of OTH carrying fans through the better part of the 2000s following its September 2003 premiere, let's take an extremely nostalgia-filled look back at where the stars were during its first season and where they were when we left Tree Hill.

by Christine DiStasio

Sophia Bush 2004

Seriously, there’s no one in this world any OTH fan loves more than Brooke Davis and, by extension, Sophia Bush.

Peter Kramer/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Sophia Bush 2012

Bush currently stars on NBC’s Chicago P.D. but she’ll always be Brooke Davis to me. She’s is BFFs with Connie Britton, Mariska Hartigay, and Debra Messing — just check her Instagram. Could she be any cooler?

Ben Gabbe/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Hilarie Burton 2004

Rocking the Peyton Sawyer curls on TRL.

Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Hilarie Burton 2012

Burton doesn’t even look like Peyton anymore. The actress definitely isn’t still in love with Lucas Scott — she’s dating and has a son with Grey’s Anatomy’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

BONUS: Sophia Bush & Hilarie Burton 2004

All of the feels. ALL OF THEM.

Peter Kramer/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Chad Michael Murray 2004

All Lucas Scott all time and dating his onscreen girlfriend Sophia Bush during this TRL appearance.

Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Chad Michael Murray 2012

Apparently Lucas lost is eyesight after he left Tree Hill.

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

BONUS: Sophia Bush & Chad Michael Murray 2004

RIP this relationship — even though Sophia Bush DGAF and is so happy it’s over. (You’re a jerk, CMM.)

Evan Agostini/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Bethany Joy Lenz 2004

Looking like sassy-rockstar Haley on TRL.

Scott Gries/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Bethany Joy Lenz 2012

Still looking like sassy-rockstar Haley and if Haley had Instagram in the mid 2000s, it’d totally look just like Lenz’s.

Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

James Lafferty 2004

Every girl’s high school dreamboat, Nathan Scott.

Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

James Lafferty 2012

Still dreamy.

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Paul Johansson 2004

Wait, he doesn’t look anything like a guy that would shoot his brother and frame a troubled high school student?! What the heck.

Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Paul Johansson 2012

Celebrity Vampire Alert.

Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Tyler Hilton 2004

He stole Haley away on a rock tour because she really loved his hair and his punny screen name “HellInKeller.”

Scott Gries/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Tyler Hilton 2012

Rescuing Nathan from his kidnappers in Season 9 really flattened his hair out a lot.

Jason Merritt/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Gavin DeGraw 2004

OK, he’s not technically a cast member, but OTH did make him totally famous. Remember when he performed “I Don’t Want To Be” in Karen’s Cafe?

Scott Gries/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Gavin DeGraw 2012

Still living and loving his headgear but probably not loving (just like the rest of us) all of those “I Don’t Want To Be” covers OTH opened its episodes with in its final seasons. Why fix something that isn’t broken?

Earl Gibson III/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

BONUS: The 'OTH' Cast With Gavin Degraw 2004

I know what you’re thinking — I don’t wanna be anything other than meeeEEEEeee.

Scott Gries/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
119