'Bridgerton's Simone Ashley Hopes Season 3 Includes Babies for Kate and Anthony

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's newly wed viscount and viscountess? Simone Ashley is hoping so!The actress ended season 2 of the Netflix series with her character, Kathani «Kate» Sharma, marrying Lord Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), and Ashley has high hopes that the next installment will see the two expanding their family. «I'm excited to see Kate become viscountess and head of the household,» the 27-year-old told . «I think she has much to learn from Anthony.

They'll be two little partners. I'd love to see them have a baby, to put it simply. Maybe that will happen, maybe it won't.»It was recently announced that season 3 of the Regency-era series will focus on the love story between Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, but that doesn't mean the fan-favorite duo — dubbed 'Kathony' — will fade into the background.

In the novels, written by Julia Quinn, Kate and Anthony end up with four kids, so it's likely that fans will get to see them stepping into the role of parents at some point during the show's reign.Season 2 of the series took a different (translation: simmering, slow-burn) approach in building up the romance between Anthony and Kate.

As the season begins, Anthony has his eye on Kate's younger sister and the newly minted «diamond» of the season, Edwina (Charithra Chandran), because — as he says right off the bat — she ticks all the boxes.