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Almost a decade earlier than Jonathan Bailey was the speak of the ton on Bridgerton, he was a star on Disney Channel’s Groove Excessive.
Bailey, 36, beforehand appeared on the one-season U.Okay. sitcom in 2012, costarring with Broadway veteran Samantha Barks. Bailey and Barks, 33, portrayed teen rock stars Tom and Zoe whereas balancing touring with highschool.
Whereas it’s been 12 years since Bailey left Groove Excessive behind, social media customers are rediscovering the British present in gentle of his function on Netflix’s Bridgerton.
“POOKIE WOOKIE,” one fan wrote through X in June, as one other added, “How did I not understand it was Jonathan Bailey all this time!!”
One other scoop worthy of Girl Whistledown’s Society Papers: The forged of Bridgerton is almost unrecognizable exterior of the present. The Netflix collection, which premiered in 2020, shortly received over viewers with its grand set items and lavish Nineteenth-century aesthetics. The actors, together with Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Web page, Jonathan Bailey and Nicola Coughlan, had been relative newcomers when […]
A 3rd chimed in, writing, “Omg by no means knew this existed, I’d have had an enormous crush on him again then.”
Each Bailey and Barks, who reunited for the 2015 U.Okay. stage manufacturing of The Final 5 Years, nonetheless have a particular place of their hearts for Groove Excessive.
“I’ve identified Sam for a couple of years,” he stated throughout a 2016 look on Graham Norton’s BBC Radio 2 present. “[Groove High] was our first collab … and primarily we bought forged after I was about 21 and [Samantha] was about 19. We bought round to filming the live-action — as a result of it was half live-action and half cartoon — after I was about 25 enjoying [a] 14-year-old, nevertheless it was a rare expertise.”
He added, “It was a high-octane, colourful collection!”
Bailey is greatest identified for taking part in Viscount Anthony Bridgerton within the steamy Regency drama, tailored from Julia Quinn’s novels of the identical identify, beginning in 2020. His character married Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) in 2022’s season 2. He has additionally appeared on Crashing, Chewing Gum and Fellow Vacationers. Subsequent up, Bailey will star as Fiyero within the two-part Depraved variations, the newest Jurassic World sequel and additional seasons of Bridgerton.
The boys of Shondaland (Shonda Rhimes’ manufacturing firm) have been making viewers swoon since Gray’s Anatomy premiered in 2005. Patrick Dempsey — whose Gray’s character Dr. Derek Shepherd was nicknamed “McDreamy” — was by no means bothered by his heartthrob standing. “It’s not essentially me, nevertheless it does assist your ego,” Dempsey advised Parade in 2008. Tony […]
Anthony and Kate didn’t seem in all eight episodes of Bridgerton season 3, deciding to take a prolonged journey to her house in India to welcome their first child.
“I believe the power of sending them off to India for a short while is that it does go away the door open for them to come back again, schedules permitting,” showrunner Jess Brownell advised Teen Vogue. “I believe, understandably, when any of our lead actors have given over their lives for his or her season, in future seasons, we wish to be supportive of the truth that they do produce other initiatives coming in, and to ask actors to come back again simply to be within the background shouldn’t be actually honest to them.”
Bailey isn’t the one Bridgerton actor who bought their begin with the Mouse Home.
“Omg a second bridgerton who got here from a Disney present!? are there any extra?” an X person wrote earlier this month.
Luke Newton, who performs season 3 lead Colin Bridgerton, additionally appeared on Disney Channel U.Okay. on 2016’s The Lodge, which was a teen musical collection.
