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Bridgerton actress Adjoa Andoh left her ITV co-stars stunned yesterday when she referred to the Buckingham Palace balcony as being 'terribly white' during their live Coronation coverage. The star, whose father was of Ghanaian origin, was commentating for the network on their programme hosted by Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham when she said of the event: 'We have gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony. 'I am very struck by that. 'I am also looking at those younger generations and thinking: "What are the nuances that they will inhabit when they grow?" Ms Andoh,...

Hair and makeup artist Marc Pilcher died of COVID-19 on Sunday at the age of 53. He was double vaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, according to his agency Curtis Brown. “It is with the deepest of hearts we confirm that Marc Elliot Pilcher, Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award winning hair and makeup designer/stylist, passed away after a battle with Covid-19 on Sunday 3rd October 2021,” his family told Variety in a statement via Curtis Brown. Pilcher recently scored the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling on Sept. 11 for his work on Netflix’s “Bridgerton.” The...

Netflix is reportedly fighting to keep raunchy sex scenes from Bridgerton off porn websites, after the news distressed castmembers. The streaming giant, which released the hit series on Christmas Day, is thought to be 'working tirelessly to hunt down pirates' who have uploaded the more intimate moments from the show, reports The Sun. It is understood that many of the scenes have already been taken down from X-rated platforms after the cast - which includes Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page - were left feeling 'horror and anger' at seeing them online.

In “Bridgerton,” the new Shonda Rhimes period drama on Netflix, the lords and ladies of early 19th century Britain are depicted as Black as well as White. Why? Washington Post television critic Hank Stuever explains it this way: “A Black character stops to explain, grandly, how and why this society came to be integrated. (Answer: because the queen is a person of color.) Not only does it not make much sense, but it seems like an unnecessary wrench thrown into a completely sensible and revisionary romp: People of color are here because they should have been here all along. Isn’t...