{"id":14750,"date":"2026-01-29T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/how-bridgerton-explained-jonathan-baileys-absence-in-season-4-part-one\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:06:55","slug":"how-bridgerton-explained-jonathan-baileys-absence-in-season-4-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/how-bridgerton-explained-jonathan-baileys-absence-in-season-4-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bridgerton\u00a0Explained Jonathan Bailey&#8217;s Absence in Season 4 Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20251120\/1100023f-7f74-49cd-b318-89878fbacb21_1763695032.jpg?fit=around%7C1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Bailey<\/strong>&lsquo;s yellow brick road hasn&rsquo;t led him back to Mayfair just yet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the <em>Wicked<\/em> actor was MIA in the first part of <em>Bridgerton<\/em> season four&mdash;which hit Netflix Jan. 29&mdash;as his character Anthony Bridgerton and wife Kate Sharma (<strong>Simone Ashley<\/strong>) don&rsquo;t appear in the four-episode drop.&nbsp;<\/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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their family&rsquo;s housekeeper Mrs. Wilson (<strong>Geraldine Alexander<\/strong>) casually mentions the viscount and viscountess&rsquo; whereabouts to her fellow servants while watching Colin Bridgerton (<strong>Luke Newton<\/strong>) and wife Penelope Featherington (<strong>Nicola Coughlan<\/strong>) fuss over their newborn baby.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re sweet as long as you are not the one who has to look after them and mind their cries,&rdquo; she remarks of the couple&rsquo;s son. &ldquo;I, for one, am glad the viscountess had her baby in India.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To which a maid swiftly replies, &ldquo;I cannot wait to meet the little heir when they return.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>How Bridgerton&nbsp;Explained Jonathan Bailey&rsquo;s Absence in Season 4 Part One<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Bailey&lsquo;s yellow brick road hasn&rsquo;t led him back to Mayfair just yet.&nbsp; Indeed, the Wicked actor was MIA in the first part of Bridgerton season four&mdash;which hit Netflix Jan. 29&mdash;as his character Anthony Bridgerton and wife Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) don&rsquo;t appear in the four-episode drop.&nbsp; And knowing they would be sorely missed, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/how-bridgerton-explained-jonathan-baileys-absence-in-season-4-part-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;How Bridgerton\u00a0Explained Jonathan Bailey&#8217;s Absence in Season 4 Part One&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}