Whereas many followers are nonetheless reeling from the Friday official announcement that Regé-Jean Web page won’t be returning to Netflix and Shondaland’s Bridgerton, John Oliver is taking the information in stride and finds it becoming for Web page’s character, Simon, the Duke of Hastings.
Oliver referenced Web page’s departure in the principle phase of his HBO present Final Week Tonight Sunday centered on the U.S.’s rising nationwide debt. After a clip from a John Stossel story on the debt subject that used footage from the riots in Greece throughout that nation’s debt disaster, Oliver contended that “reducing to a footage of a riot could make something appear extra dire than it would truly be” earlier than utilizing the identical unrest video after mentioning Web page’s departure from Bridgerton for example how the manipulative modifying makes the information really feel “fairly scary.”
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“However the reality is way more advanced,” Oliver mentioned of Web page’s exit, which comes after the actor fulfilled his one-year contract. “As a result of A: His character’s arc is generally wrapped up and he doesn’t seem in the remainder of the novels. It’s actually a generational story of the entire household. And in addition, you could possibly completely lose the Duke. It’s truly completely in his character to start out one thing he doesn’t end.”
The final quip refers to Simon’s penchant for pulling out which nearly destroyed his marriage to Daphne Bridgerton.
Every of the eight Bridgerton novels by Julia Quinn, which the Netflix sequence relies on, facilities on one of many Bridgerton siblings.
Season 1, primarily based on the primary Bridgerton e book, The Duke And I, chronicled the sweeping romance of Simon (Web page) and Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor).
The second season will chronicle the pursuit of an appropriate marriage for the eldest Bridgerton sibling, Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), as chronicled within the second e book, The Viscount Who Liked Me.
Web page’s departure was introduced by Bridgerton’s Girl Whistledown, together with a message from the present, “Your Grace, it has been a pleasure”.
Web page responded on Twitter. “Pleasure and a privilege! An honour to be a member of the household – on and off display screen, forged, crew and unimaginable followers – the love is actual and can simply continue to grow,” he wrote.