Nicola Coughlan and Simone Ashley simply had the cutest Bridgerton reunion.
Dearest mild reader, enable us to set the scene: tonight, GLAMOUR hosted the occasion of the social season, the Ladies of the 12 months Awards, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Ring. The entire most fantastic and trendy faces of the Ton arrived at Raffles on the OWO to rejoice this yr’s winners — and amongst them had been two true diamonds: Penelope Featherington and Kate Sharma… or fairly, the ladies who play them, Nicola Coughlan and Simone Ashley.
Ashley was named Gamechanging Actor, while her co-star offered her with the award — and their cute second on stage was the sweetest Bridgerton main woman reunion we may have hoped for.
Nicola Coughlan, carrying a black gown with crimson tights, took to the stage to introduce Ashley. “This remarkable woman is no stranger to breakout roles and certainly knows how to cause quite the stir, dearest gentle reader,” mentioned Coughlan, whose character, Penelope Featherington, stepped into the position of main woman in Bridgerton‘s newest season and revealed herself to be none different that gossip columnist Girl Whistledown.
Coughlan went on, “Yet tonight’s honouree never imagined herself in a period drama – after all, growing up, she rarely saw anyone who looked like her in any kind of TV drama at all. But it wasn’t long before she was pioneering her way through the corset-clad landscape, reshaping global views of South-Asian representation as she held her own on horseback, kicked ass at croquet and stoked the palatable tension on the ballroom floor as she quadrilled her way into our hearts in Netflix’s ‘diamond of the season’ – Bridgerton.”
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Ashley served as Bridgerton’s season two main woman, Kate, who had a swoon-worthy enemies-to-lovers arc with Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton again in 2022.
Coughlan went on to reward Ashley’s work with South-Asian tradition hub Food plan Paratha to assist up-and-coming actors and her new manufacturing firm, Good Catch Leisure.
Coughlan concluded, “Please put your hands together for tonight’s Gamechanging Actor, fresh from her catwalk debut at the L’Oréal Paris show, it’s the tenaciously determined and absolutely divine Simone Ashley.”
Ashley, carrying a yellow suede robe, mounted the stage and shared the cutest hug with Coughlan. She then opened up about simply how a lot her good friend’s assist meant to her.
“Nicola, thank you so much. Your schedule is just so, so busy. So, thank you so much for being here to present for me,” she mentioned to Coughlan. “It means so much to me to have you be here tonight because we’ve been on such a journey together, and I really look up to you. So this is something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. I love very much.”
Is that this the GLAMOUR Ladies of the 12 months Awards or Queen Charlotte’s debutant ball? As a result of it looks like these two diamonds are simply as shut IRL as they’re within the Ton.
