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Phoebe Dynevor and Rege-Jean Page Separately Stun at Academy Gala
We still burn for Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page content years after their Bridgerton exits.
While not an official reunion, both Dynevor, 29, and Page, 36, made an appearance at the fourth annual Academy Museum Gala on Saturday, October 19, in Los Angeles.
Dynevor stunned in a custom black Louis Vuitton gown, featuring silver sequins and a sheer train. She complemented her look with jewelry made by Francesca Amfitheatrof for the brand.
“Academy Gala with @louisvuitton thank you team,” Dynevor, an ambassador for Louis Vuitton, gushed via Instagram the next day.
As fellow gala attendee Joey King replied in the comments section, the British actress looked “dropped dead gorg.”
Dynevor’s TV husband, Page, also made a stylish appearance at the Academy Museum Gala, sporting a dapper velvet blazer with an eggplant-colored silk shirt and coordinating trousers. Despite posing solo on the red carpet, Page hung out with fellow Brit Joe Alwyn inside the venue.
Dynevor and Page, of course, played the first leading couple on Netflix’s Bridgerton, a regency romance series based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels. They portrayed Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, respectively, who fall in love following a fake dating scheme.
After Daphne and Simon found their happy ending and welcomed firstborn August, the two actors both opted to leave Bridgerton.
“It’s a one-season arc. It’s going to have a beginning, middle, end – give us a year,” Page told Variety in April 2021. “[I thought] ‘That’s interesting,’ because then it felt like a limited series. I get to come in, I get to contribute my bit, and then the Bridgerton family rolls on.”
Successive seasons of Bridgerton, much like the books, focus on different Bridgerton siblings. Seasons 2 and 3 focused on Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and Colin (Luke Newton) as they fell in love with Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), respectively. A fourth season is currently in production with Benedict (Luke Thompson) taking the lead. His love interest will be show newcomer Yerin Ha as Sophie Baek.
Sophie’s last name was changed from the book’s Beckett to better represent Ha’s own heritage as an Asian woman.
The first three seasons of Bridgerton are currently streaming on Netflix. A premiere date for season 4 has not been revealed.