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WTF?! Bridgerton Fans FURIOUS Over Article Disgustingly Body-Shaming Nicola Coughlan!


The latest season of Bridgerton is upon us, with the first four episodes now streaming and the second half due on Netflix in June. This season's central

Someone over at The Spectator actually thought it would be a good idea to explain why the show has made a huge mistake in casting her because she’s “not hot.” That would already be the most insane hot take nonsense since that Slate thinkpiece insisting Sydney Sweeney ‘s boobs aren’t big. This writer felt the need to specifically attack her body shape, explaining in all her supposed pop culture acuity why a “fat” woman doesn’t work as the believable lead of a romance plot. “That Zoe Strimpel piece in the Spectator about Nicola Coughlan being “not hot” is exactly the kind of brainwashed, bro, pick me, homogenized beauty standards crap that new romance loves to thumb its nose at.

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