{"id":105230,"date":"2026-01-29T09:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/bridgerton-season-4-jonathan-bailey-absence-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:15:18","slug":"bridgerton-season-4-jonathan-bailey-absence-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/bridgerton-season-4-jonathan-bailey-absence-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgerton\u00a0Season 4: Jonathan Bailey Absence Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jonathan_bailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jonathan Bailey<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s yellow brick road hasn&#8217;t led him back to Mayfair just yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the <em>Wicked<\/em> actor was MIA in the first part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bridgerton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bridgerton<\/em><\/a> season four\u2014which hit Netflix Jan. 29\u2014as his character Anthony Bridgerton and wife Kate Sharma (<strong>Simone Ashley<\/strong>) don&#8217;t appear in the four-episode drop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And knowing they would be sorely missed, the Regency era show addressed the reason behind their absence at the top of the first episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their family&#8217;s housekeeper Mrs. Wilson (<strong>Geraldine Alexander<\/strong>) casually mentions the viscount and viscountess&#8217; whereabouts to her fellow servants while watching Colin Bridgerton (<strong>Luke Newton<\/strong>)<strong> <\/strong>and wife<strong> <\/strong>Penelope Featherington (<strong>Nicola Coughlan<\/strong>) fuss over their newborn baby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re sweet as long as you are not the one who has to look after them and mind their cries,&#8221; she remarks of the couple&#8217;s son. &#8220;I, for one, am glad the viscountess had her baby in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">To which a maid swiftly replies, &#8220;I cannot wait to meet the little heir when they return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1425344\/bridgerton-season-4-jonathan-bailey-absence-explained?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Bailey&#8216;s yellow brick road hasn&#8217;t led him back to Mayfair just yet.\u00a0 Indeed, the Wicked actor was MIA in the first part of Bridgerton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}