It’s been almost two years since he first made us burn for him — however our biggest Netflix crush is here to stay! Regé-Jean Page, star of season one in all Netflix’s hit Bridgerton, had viewers swooning together with his portrayal of the horny, emotionally complicated Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings. While his onscreen romance has made headlines, “The Gray Man”‘s offscreen private life has stayed principally out of the highlight.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in December 2020, Page admitted to being fairly a romantic at coronary heart. “I’m an enormous fan of romance as an idea. Romance is a superb factor and we’d like extra of it on the planet,” he instructed the journal. “Most issues at their core are love tales anyway, whether or not they understand it or not. It’s hilarious, the extra significantly a present tries to take itself and detach itself from that, the extra that the love story usually tends to come back ahead.”
He additionally embraces the inherent romance in one in all our favourite traditional period-drama tropes: held-gaze ballroom scenes between two characters — a sort of scene he and former costar Phoebe Dynevor, as Simon and Daphne, excelled at. “You have this space to flirt and talk in personal. Even although the eyes of the world are on you, it is that little bubble of honesty between these two characters,” he instructed Oprah Magazine. With such an unabashed love for romantic tropes, it is no surprise that Page was in a position to totally inhabit the character of the broody, passionate, and complicated Simon!
In actual life, although, Page is far much less open about his private emotions and relationships. But that does not imply he is single. In February 2021, the actor sparked romance rumors when he was noticed embracing writer and part-time athlete Emily Brown earlier than catching a flight. At the time, a supply confirmed to Entertainment Tonight that the pair was relationship. Since then, they’ve made a couple of public appearances collectively, together with on the GQ Men of the Year Awards and the London Film Festival final yr. This yr, the duo stepped out hand in hand for a pre-BAFTA dinner party in March. And on July 8, they attended Wimbledon together within the UK for day 12 of event play.

At this level, he has not spoken publicly about his relationship with Brown or previous romances, however no matter his standing, we love Page’s refreshing and heartfelt views on love.