Are Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan & Luke Newton Dating? Source Responds to Rumors

The ages of the Bridgerton characters are often a subject of discussion while viewers watch the series.

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Season 3, Part 1 of Bridgerton.

Bridgerton fans rejoice - the brand new season of the immensely popular historical drama is back for its third instalment, and there's so much to look forward to.

Based on Julia Quinn’s Romancing Mister Bridgerton Season 3 of Netflix and Shondaland’s Bridgerton watches the friends-to-lovers romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) bloom. While their book comes fourth in the series after Benedict’s love story, the show has moved their installment up in the order of Bridgerton sibling romances. Francesca’s (Hannah Dodd) love story also intertwines more significantly in the expanded two-part season, with Part 1 releasing May 16 on Netflix and Part 2 June 13.

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has said her nude scene in season three of the Netflix series was a “fuck you” to the online trolls who body shame her.In a recent interview with the LA Times, she explained how shooting her sex scene with co-star Luke Newton eventually felt liberating, despite her initial nerves.“By the end of the day, we were both lying under a blanket, not clothed, just chillin’. We were like, ‘This is why nudists do it,'” she said.Now, in a new a profile published by Stylist, she’s revealed that she was adamant about going “very naked” for the scene as a direct response to the online trolls who criticised her weight.Coughlan, who collaborated closely with Bridgerton intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot on her sex scenes, said: “You go, ‘Ok, what do I want to show? What don’t I want to show? What’s scripted, and what do I want to add?’“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” Coughlan continued.

“Bridgerton” Season 3 in response to online body shaming comments.“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” Coughlan told Stylist magazine in an interview published Tuesday. “There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.”She continued: “It just felt like the biggest ‘f–k you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering.”“I felt beautiful in the moment,” Coughlan added, “and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how f—ing hot I looked!’”Coughlan is the leading lady in the new season of “Bridgerton” that debuted on Netflix Thursday.

Bridgerton fans rejoice - the hit Netflix series has finally returned for its highly-anticipated third season.

Bridgerton might be synonymous with soapy drama and steamy sex scenes but it’s also known for orchestral covers of classic pop songs.Created by Chris Van Dusen, the Netflix period drama follows the fictional Bridgerton family as they navigate London high society in the early 1800s.After two seasons and a spin-off, the show returned for a third season in May 2024. A fourth season is currently in development.For the third season, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Bailey, Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Luke Thompson and Simone Ashley all reprise their roles.

Strange things have been happening in the “ton”, dear reader, and even Lady Whistledown herself would be surprised at how dramatically one of the Bridgerton sisters has changed since we last saw her in season two of the hugely successful Netflix series. Francesca – who is the younger sister of Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), Benedict (Luke Thompson), Colin (Luke Newton), Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and Eloise (Claudia Jessie), and older sister to Gregory and Hyacinth – looks very different in the third season as she is played by a new actress, Hannah Dodd, who replaces Ruby Stokes in the role. Ruby actually left Bridgerton midway through filming the second season, due to other commitments.

The period drama Bridgerton has been one of Netflix’s biggest successes, with the Regency-set story focusing on the lives and loves of the Bridgerton family and their friends.The new third season starts on Thursday 16 May with the arrival of the first four episodes (the final four episodes will drop on Netflix on Thursday 13 June), and this time around the heart of the tale is the blossoming romance between old friends Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton. It means that the actors playing them – Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton – are now in the spotlight, with Luke stepping up to be the leading man of the series, taking over from Rege-Jean Page (season one) and Jonathan Bailey (season two).

Bridgerton returns in 2024 with another batch of episodes.Created by Chris Van Dusen, the period drama revolves around the fictional Bridgerton family as they navigate London high society in the early 1800s.The show is based on the books by Julia Quinn, with the third season adapting her fourth Regency romance novel, Romancing Mister Bridgerton.Following the second season, a spin-off titled Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story was released in May 2023. The first four episodes of season three arrived on May 16, 2024.The remaining four episodes of season three will be released on June 13, so there’s only a month to wait for the concluding half.Bridgerton was renewed for a third and fourth season back in April 2021, so another batch of episodes is already in the pipeline – although an exact release date is unknown.It seems like there’s plans for more seasons and spin-offs too.

Nicola Coughlan discussed one of the nude scenes that she filmed for the new season of Bridgerton.

“Bridgerton” Season 3 promises plenty of balls and other social events, and music supervisor Justin Kamps pulled string song covers of several big-name artists for the orchestral pop music signature to the Netflix show. The needle drops heighten the luxurious social moments as well as more intimate and emotional ones.

, and that's by design. As her character Penelope Featherington steps “out of the shadows” in her search for a husband, she will also finally make a move on longtime crush , leading to the character's first sex scene.Coughlan explained that in working with the show's intimacy coordinator, she advocated for her own ideas about Penelope's sex life. “I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” she told , per .

After two years of waiting, Bridgerton’s third chapter is finally here. Released on Netflix on Thursday, 16 May, the series sees Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington’s (Nicola Coughlan) romance take the centre stage and, even better, it’s released in two parts, meaning there’s twice the opportunity to watch their love story play out. But since its first release in 2020, Bridgerton has seen some famous faces take to the screen, including Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor.

Luke Newton is the lead male star of Bridgerton season three, so fans are definitely going to want to know more about his personal life.

By Fans wanting to see Penelope Featherington () and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) in might be surprised to learn that when Newton first got the scripts, his initial thought was: How complicated can this story be?“Penelope has been infatuated by Colin ever since the start of season one,” he explains to Glamour over Zoom. “So in my head, there was a clear path: All he needs to do is see what's been right in front of him all this time, and they'll live happily ever after.”Of course, this is Bridgerton.

, arrived for the season three premiere in full viscountess glam. If she’s ever looked better, well, we can’t remember the time.The British actor stunned in a custom Prada gown that, when it catches the light, seems to be made of strings of diamonds.

Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton are celebrating the premiere of their Bridgerton season!

Bridgerton celebrated the premiere of Season 3 at Alice Tully Hall, and star Nicola Coughlan teased what’s ahead for Lady Whistledown.