"Specifically, Coughlan referred to viewers who theorized that she was in a secret relationship with her co-star, Luke Newton, who plays Colin in the hit Regency romance. As The Guardian noted, some even believed she'd hide clues about a perceived romance in her clothing - which, Coughlan said, she's absolutely not doing. "I definitely just put a jumper on and the color doesn't mean anything.""
"Some took the speculation to an extreme. "The maddest thing they thought was that I'd had a secret baby and was hiding it," Coughlan said. "I would like to go on the record and say, 'I don't have a secret baby.'" Indeed, both halves of the fictional #Polin are dating other people - Coughlan is dating fellow actor Jake Dunn, while Newton seemingly went Instagram-official with dancer Antonia Roumelioti earlier this year."
""A lot of people really want me to marry Luke," she told Time last year. "We have this gorgeous friendship. We have such a love for one another and this experience that I'll never have with someone else again." As she reiterated, though, theirs is a platonic love: "Isn't it gorgeous that a man and woman can have that sort of relationship with one another?""
Nicola Coughlan denies any real-life romantic relationship with co-star Luke Newton and rejects suggestions that wardrobe choices signal a hidden romance. Rumors escalated to claims of a secret baby, which are explicitly denied. Both actors are publicly dating other partners, with Coughlan linked to Jake Dunn and Newton appearing with dancer Antonia Roumelioti. Bridgerton fandom response is described as unusually intense compared with typical audience reactions. The on-screen partnership is characterized as a strong, platonic friendship that some fans misinterpret as romantic. Coughlan highlights the value of close, nonromantic relationships between men and women.
Read at Bustle
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]