Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page has declared he’s “flattered” to be tipped as the next James Bond, just days after quitting the hit Netflix show.
The Londoner became an overnight star as Simon, Duke of Hastings in the raunchy Regency-era romantic drama series. But now, having left millions of Bridgerton heartbroken with the news he won’t be returning for series two, Rege-Jean is being linked with one of Britain’s most iconic ever roles: 007.
Bookies Coral on Tuesday made him favourite to be the new Bond, putting him on odds of 5/2 and previous favourites Tom Hardy and Granchester’s James Norton joint second at 3/1.
Everyone else is now 10/1 or below. And Rege-Jean, who spent a lot of his childhood in his mother’s native Zimbabwe, certainly
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