While many fans are still reeling from the Friday official announcement that Regé-Jean Page will not be returning to Netflix and Shondaland’s Bridgerton, John Oliver is taking the news in stride and finds it fitting for Page’s character, Simon, the Duke of Hastings.Oliver referenced Page’s departure in the main segment of his HBO show Last Week Tonight Sunday focused on the U.S.’s rising national debt.
After a clip from a John Stossel story on the debt issue that used footage from the riots in Greece during that country’s debt crisis, Oliver contended that “cutting to a footage of a riot can make anything seem more dire than it might actually be” before using the same unrest video after bringing up Page’s departure from Bridgerton to
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