Regé-Jean Page's romance with Emily Brown is going strong

It's been nearly two years since he first had us burning for him, but our biggest Netflix crush is here to stay! Regé-Jean Page, star of the first season of Netflix's hit Bridgerton, has made viewers swoon with his portrayal of the sexy and emotionally complicated Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings. While his on-screen romance has grabbed the headlines, "The Gray Man"'s off-screen personal life has mostly remained out of the spotlight.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in December 2020, Page admitted to being quite romantic at heart. "I'm a big fan of romance as a concept. Romance is a wonderful thing and we need more of it in the world," he told the magazine. "Most of the stuff at its core is romance anyway, whether they realize it or not. It's hilarious the more a show tries to take itself seriously and detach from it, the more the love story generally tends to manifest."< /p>

It also embraces the romance inherent in one of our favorite classic period drama tropes: staring ballroom scenes between two characters - a type of scene in which he and the former co-star Phoebe Dynevor as Simon and Daphne excelled. "You have this space to flirt and communicate privately. Even though the eyes of the world are on you, it's this little bubble of honesty between these two characters," he told Oprah Magazine. With such shameless love for Roma...