{"id":235008,"date":"2026-01-15T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235008\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:11:06","slug":"bridgerton-seasons-5-6-leads-confirmed-by-showrunner-bridgerton-jess-brownell-netflix-television-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235008\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bridgerton\u2019 Seasons 5 &#038; 6 Leads Confirmed By Showrunner! | Bridgerton, Jess Brownell, Netflix, Television | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bridgerton\/\" title=\"Bridgerton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bridgerton<\/a> on Netflix know that each season focuses on one of the siblings in the Bridgerton family and their love story with their respective partner.<\/p>\n<p>Season 1 focused on Daphne Bridgerton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/phoebe-dynevor\/\" title=\"Phoebe Dynevor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Dynevor<\/a>) and her love story with the Duke (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rege-jean-page\/\" title=\"Rege Jean Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rege-Jean Page<\/a>), season 2 focused on Anthony Bridgerton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jonathan-bailey\/\" title=\"Jonathan Bailey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bailey<\/a>) and his future wife Kate (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/simone-ashley\/\" title=\"Simone Ashley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simone Ashley<\/a>), season 3 focused on Colin Bridgerton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/luke-newton\/\" title=\"Luke Newton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Newton<\/a>) with his friend turned lover Penelope (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/nicola-coughlan\/\" title=\"Nicola Coughlan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Coughlan<\/a>), and season 4 is set to focus on Benedict Bridgerton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/luke-thompson\/\" title=\"Luke Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Thompson<\/a>) and his love interest Sophie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/yerin-ha\/\" title=\"Yerin Ha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yerin Ha<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However, fans are already debating which sibling will be the focus of seasons five and six.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the showrunner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jess-brownell\/\" title=\"Jess Brownell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jess Brownell<\/a>, has given a big hint\u2026and you can see it in the photo to the left!<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth characters with the initials on my pocket squares will get seasons in 5 and in 6. In what order? I can\u2019t say,\u201d she teased to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/bridgerton-showrunner-confirms-seasons-5-6-subjects-1236683229\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/bridgerton-showrunner-confirms-seasons-5-6-subjects-1236683229\/&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>. If you see, the pocket square clearly has an \u201cE\u201d and \u201cF\u201d on it, indicating that seasons five and six will focus on  Eloise (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/claudia-jessie\/\" title=\"Claudia Jessie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claudia Jessie<\/a>) and Francesca (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/hannah-dodd\/\" title=\"Hannah Dodd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Dodd<\/a>). It\u2019s unclear which season will focus on which sister, but we\u2019re assuming that information might be revealed soon after season four ends.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgerton season four will consist of eight episodes, and air in two parts. Part one debuts on January 29th, while Part two debuts February 26th on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/30\/bridgerton-season-4-cast-changes-1-original-star-wasnt-asked-back-5-seemingly-depart-the-series-several-more-will-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which Bridgerton star was NOT asked back<\/a> for season four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of Bridgerton on Netflix know that each season focuses on one of the siblings in the Bridgerton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-235008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}