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Simone Ashley Talks Bridgerton Season 3: "SUPER Steamy"
Simone Ashley is the caller diamond of the season.
After recently confirming her breakup from Constantin "Tino" Klein, the Bridgerton histrion is embracing the azygous life.
Simone told People in an interrogation published March 5 that she’s defining her “single epoch arsenic a clip that I don't wanna discarded away.”
The 29-year-old continued, "It's astir self-growth, and I americium looking for idiosyncratic who is truthful assured successful themselves and is truly acceptable to person an unfastened bosom successful the aforesaid mode I do. And I deliberation that's hard to find."
She noted that she's "not successful a rush," sharing, "I privation to instrumentality my clip to find the close idiosyncratic for maine and to enactment connected myself—to grow, and to absorption connected my work."
"I've got specified an unthinkable twelvemonth up and I'm up to specified breathtaking things," she explained. "And I person the astir astonishing household and friends astir me. So I'm moving connected my bosom and connected myself and connected my confidence."
Simone did gag astir the irony of starring successful a rom-com—her caller movie Picture This—while going done a breakup earlier this year.
"It’s benignant of ironic I’m promoting a rom-com,” Simone said connected the Feb. 28 occurrence of BBC’s Woman's Hour podcast, “and arsenic of January this year, I’ve been entering my azygous era.”
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While Simone is unattached, her Bridgerton quality Kate Sharma's narration with emotion involvement Anthony Bridgerton, played by Wicked's Jonathan Bailey, volition continue into season four. And that's a transportation Simone feels assured in.
"Johnny was an astonishing co-partner to enactment with," she said successful a 2022 interrogation with People. "We ever had each other's backs and made definite that each other—as overmuch arsenic we were doing our ain enactment and we were connected our ain journeys—we would ever cheque successful with 1 different and marque definite that they were okay.”
For the emotion lives of more Bridgerton stars, work on.
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Nicola Coughlan
While Nicola's Penelope Featherington recovered emotion with Luke Newton's Colin Bridgerton connected play three, Nicola herself has sparked romance rumors with Renegade Nell alum Jake Dunn.
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Sam Phillips and Bessie Carter
Lord Debling and Prudence Dankworth (née Featherington) whitethorn not origin into each other's emotion lives connected the show, but the actors person made a real-life match.
And it appears that Carter's mum Imelda Staunton approves.
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Phoebe Dynevor
Daphne Bridgerton swapped vows with Regé-Jean Page's Simon Basset, and present the Bridgerton alum plans to instrumentality her ain stroll down the aisle.
Dynevor flashed her engagement ring from shaper Cameron Fuller at the 2024 Met Gala.
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Regé-Jean Page
The erstwhile Duke of Hastings, Page having near the amusement aft play one, keeps his idiosyncratic cards adjacent to his vest off-camera, but has looked awfully blessed successful copywriter Emily Brown's institution since 2021.
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Jonathan Bailey
Like Anthony, 9th Viscount Bridgerton, the English histrion prefers to enactment mum connected romanticist affairs.
But helium told The Standard successful December 2023 that helium was successful a not-secret-but-private narration with a "lovely man."
"Having a backstage beingness is, for me, wholly critical," the Fellow Travelers star said. "I don't cognize if I would beryllium capable to beryllium arsenic assured to talk retired connected different things if I felt that my full beingness was up for grabs."
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Simone Ashley
The Sex Education star, who acceptable the Vicountess measure for Anthony upon accomplishment from India, confirmed she was successful a narration with Tino Klein with a March 2023 Instagram post. But successful February 2025, the histrion shared she had entered her "single era" successful an interrogation connected BBC’s Woman Hour podcast, revealing the divided occured 1 period prior.
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Luke Thompson
Benedict Bridgerton seemingly conscionable wants to beryllium escaped to bash his thing, arsenic an creator and successful the bedroom. Though possibly he's processing immoderate feelings...
And Thompson, who's not 1 to stock what he's up successful existent life, was wholly onboard with his character's journey, wherever it took him.
"It's beauteous to explore," helium told Deadline ahead of the play 3 finale, "but besides putting down immoderate roots and choosing thing oregon idiosyncratic besides has immense worth and excitement."
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Luke Newton
Newton dated histrion Jade Louise Davies—her sister Amber Davies won Love Island U.K. successful 2017 with then-boyfriend Kem Cetinay—for respective years.
But helium was snapped pursuing Bridgerton's June 2024 midseason premiere successful London hand-in-hand with dancer Antonia Roumelioti.
Of course, astir fans are conscionable disappointed that Colin Bridgerton and Penelope aren't unneurotic successful existent life.
"We deliberation it’s truly sweet," Coughlan told Extra of the off-camera shipping that goes connected for them. "I deliberation due to the fact that we genuinely emotion each other."
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Charithra Chandran
The histrion who plays Kate's sparkling sister Edwina Sharma whitethorn beryllium azygous astatine the moment, but she sent hearts soaring with the merchandise of her 2024 rom-com How to Date Billy Walsh, costarring her longtime person Sebastian Croft.
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Claudia Jessie
It turns retired the histrion destined to play Eloise Bridgerton ended up falling for the non-actor she auditioned with, casting exertion Cole Edwards.
"I got a occupation and a fella connected the aforesaid day," Jessie told The Guardian successful April 2024. "It was a large time for me, wasn't it?"
