Phoebe Dynevor reveals shocking Bridgerton season 3 plans

Phoebe Dynevor – better known as Daphne Bridgerton – has left fans reeling after sharing some news about the upcoming season of the hit show.

Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor won’t return in season three.

Daphne Bridgerton has left the ’Ton.

Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor has announced that she will not return for season three of the popular Netflix series.

“Sadly not in season three. Potentially in the future. But season three, I’m just excited to watch as a viewer,” the Brit recently told Screen Rant.

“Well, I did my two seasons,” the 27-year-old said in a separate interview with Variety published on Monday.

“I’ve done what I wanted to do with that character and she had a great arc,” she explained to Variety. “If they ask me back in the future, who knows?”

While her character was the main focus of the first season, which aired in 2020, her role was dwindled down in last year’s season two.

Dynevor isn’t the first star of the Shonda Rhimes-produced series to depart once their debut season concluded.

Regé-Jean Page — also known as the most handsome man in the world, according to science — left the show after playing the Duke of Hastings Simon Basset in the soapy drama’s inaugural season.

Page and Dynevor played love interests in season one.

Season three will centre on the love story between Colin Bridgerton — played by Luke Newton — and Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington.

The historic romance series is based on books penned by Julia Quinn. While the author’s third instalment is supposed to follow the relationship of middle brother Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson), the show will be skipping straight to Colin and Penelope’s story before Benedict’s.

The next season will feature more of Colin and Penelope.

Showrunner Jess Brownwell explained why it’s “Colin and Penelope’s time” in the forthcoming season.

“Because we’ve been watching both of these actors on our screens since season one, we’ve already invested in them a little bit. We know who they are as people,” Brownwell told Variety in May 2022.

“I feel like, especially in the last season, there are these moments of tension between them where it’s like, Colin walks up to the line of almost realising that Penelope has feelings for him but doesn’t quite get there. Instead of treading water on that dynamic, we wanted to push it into their season. It really felt like the perfect moment to tee it up,” she noted.

Coughlan revealed the plot news last spring during an appearance at Netflix’s FYSee panel.

“Like Lady Whistledown, I have been keeping a secret for quite some time, and I can confirm to you all that season three is Colin and Penelope’s love story,” the Irish actress said. “I have kept that secret since two weeks into season two. This is the first time I am saying it here.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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