{"id":312289,"date":"2026-03-04T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312289\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:53:09","slug":"bridgerton-showrunner-has-big-plans-for-simone-ashleys-future-involvement-in-the-show-bridgerton-netflix-simone-ashley-television-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312289\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bridgerton\u2019 Showrunner Has Big Plans for Simone Ashley\u2019s Future Involvement in the Show | Bridgerton, Netflix, Simone Ashley, Television | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bridgerton\/\" title=\"Bridgerton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bridgerton<\/a> showrunner Jess Brownell has big plans for bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/simone-ashley\/\" title=\"Simone Ashley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simone Ashley<\/a> back into the Ton in a significant way.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan of the relationship between Simone\u2018s character Kate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/claudia-jessie\/\" title=\"Claudia Jessie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claudia Jessie<\/a>\u2018s Eloise, Brownell says she envisions Kate playing a big part in the Eloise-centric season that is forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously confirmed that seasons 5 and 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/26\/bridgerton-seasons-5-6-leads-confirmed-who-will-lead-netflix-series-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will revolve around Eloise and Hannah Dodd\u2018s Francesca<\/a>, though it\u2019s unclear who will be first. <\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also am really partial to the relationship between Kate and Eloise. That\u2019s something that I\u2019d like to continue following in the future,\u201d Brownell tells <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bridgerton-showrunner-teases-simone-ashley-will-play-a-major-role-in-eloise-season-exclusive-11918051\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/people.com\/bridgerton-showrunner-teases-simone-ashley-will-play-a-major-role-in-eloise-season-exclusive-11918051&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. \u201cSo when we eventually get to Eloise\u2019s season, Kate is someone I\u2019ll be very interested to have around, if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just Kate she\u2019d like to bring back either, but all the former leads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to one day have all of the leads come back. I think it would be really meaningful, especially when I think forward to Hyacinth and Gregory\u2019s story,\u201d she shared, referencing the characters played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/florence-hunt\/\" title=\"Florence Hunt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence Hunt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/will-tilston\/\" title=\"Will Tilston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Tilston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cIn particular, Daphne and Anthony, and their partners, are such paternal\/maternal figures for those younger kids, so I would be very interested in trying to get some of those previous leads back for the later run of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brownell previously spoke about bringing Daphne and Simon back and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/28\/will-daphne-simon-be-recast-on-bridgerton-showrunner-chimes-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whether or not she would consider recasting the roles<\/a> played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/phoebe-dynevor\/\" title=\"Phoebe Dynevor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Dynevor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rege-jean-page\/\" title=\"Reg\u00e9 Jean Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reg\u00e9-Jean Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell has big plans for bringing Simone Ashley back into the Ton in a significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-312289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312289","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=312289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}