What We Know About Our Next Bridgerton Leads

Bridgerton is returning for a fourth season.

And they have big shoes to fill after that spicy season where Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton found love.

Thankfully fans won’t have to muse on who the next romance could be about.

Netflix has confirmed who will be leading season four.

Benedict Bridgerton will be on the marriage mart this season.

Yes, Luke Thompson’s beloved character will be on the hunt for a wife in the next instalment of the period drama.

The synopsis reads: “The fourth season of Bridgerton turns its focus to bohemian second son Benedict (Luke Thompson).

“Despite his elder and younger brothers both being happily married, Benedict is loath to settle down — until he meets a captivating Lady in Silver at his mother’s masquerade ball.”

Luke Thompson Pic: Gavin Bond/Netflix

Of course, Bridgerton is based on books. So readers will already know that Benedict ends up with Sophie Beckett who will be known as Sophie Baek in the show.

And the gorgeous Yerin Ha will play Sophie.

Sophie Baek has been forced to spend much of her life working as a maid for the most demanding employer in the ton.

However, the resourceful Sophie always finds a way to persevere through her circumstances – circumstances that will drastically change after she disguises herself to attend Violet Bridgerton‘s masquerade ball and meets Benedict Bridgerton. 

Yerin Ha Pic: Gavin Bond/Netflix

And production has just started for the fourth season of the show. And we couldn’t be more excited!

So what is the plot of his book?

We can safely say that the fourth season will at least loosely follow the novel, An Offer from a Gentleman.

The book is inspired by Cinderella as Sophie is the illegitimate child of the Earl of Penwood. When the Earl remarries, her cruel stepmother and stepsisters refuse to include Sophie in the family. They make her life miserable.

Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson Pic: Gavin Bond/Netflix

She manages to sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball, where she runs into Benedict. While sparks fly, the next morning Sophie is punished by her stepmother and ends up leaving London for the countryside.

The book includes a three year time skip that we’re not sure will happen in the show where the pair are separated. They soon reunite but Sophie is working as a maid. Benedict propositions her and proposes that she could be his mistress.

She rejects him, but she’s far more than Benedict sees. And of course, wise mama Violet promises Benedict that she would never be angry at him if he chooses to marry someone of a different social class.

We can’t wait to watch!

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