Nicola Coughlan & Simone Ashley Had the Cutest Bridgerton Reunion at GLAMOUR Girls of the 12 months Awards

Nicola Coughlan and Simone Ashley simply had the cutest Bridgerton reunion.

Dearest light reader, permit us to set the scene: tonight, GLAMOUR hosted the occasion of the social season, the Girls of the 12 months Awards, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Ring. All the most fantastic and trendy faces of the Ton arrived at Raffles on the OWO to have fun this 12 months’s winners — and amongst them had been two true diamonds: Penelope Featherington and Kate Sharma… or somewhat, the ladies who play them, Nicola Coughlan and Simone Ashley.

Ashley was named Gamechanging Actor, while her co-star introduced her with the award — and their lovely second on stage was the sweetest Bridgerton main girl reunion we may have hoped for.

Nicola Coughlan, carrying a black gown with pink tights, took to the stage to introduce Ashley. “This outstanding girl is not any stranger to breakout roles and positively is aware of how you can trigger fairly the stir, dearest light reader,” mentioned Coughlan, whose character, Penelope Featherington, stepped into the position of main girl in Bridgerton‘s newest season and revealed herself to be none different that gossip columnist Girl Whistledown.

Coughlan went on, “But tonight’s honouree by no means imagined herself in a interval drama – in any case, rising up, she hardly ever noticed anybody who seemed like her in any form of TV drama in any respect. However it wasn’t lengthy earlier than she was pioneering her manner by way of the corset-clad panorama, reshaping world views of South-Asian illustration as she held her personal on horseback, kicked ass at croquet and stoked the palatable stress on the ballroom flooring as she quadrilled her manner into our hearts in Netflix’s ‘diamond of the season’ – Bridgerton.”

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Ashley served as Bridgerton’s season two main girl, Kate, who had a swoon-worthy enemies-to-lovers arc with Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton again in 2022.

Coughlan went on to reward Ashley’s work with South-Asian tradition hub Weight-reduction plan Paratha to help up-and-coming actors and her new manufacturing firm, Good Catch Leisure.

Coughlan concluded, “Please put your arms collectively for tonight’s Gamechanging Actor, contemporary from her catwalk debut on the L’Oréal Paris present, it’s the tenaciously decided and completely divine Simone Ashley.”

Ashley, carrying a yellow suede robe, mounted the stage and shared the cutest hug with Coughlan. She then opened up about simply how a lot her pal’s help meant to her.

“Nicola, thanks a lot. Your schedule is simply so, so busy. So, thanks a lot for being right here to current for me,” she mentioned to Coughlan. “It means a lot to me to have you ever be right here tonight as a result of we have been on such a journey collectively, and I actually look as much as you. So that is one thing I will bear in mind for the remainder of my life. I like very a lot.”

Is that this the GLAMOUR Girls of the 12 months Awards or Queen Charlotte’s debutant ball? As a result of it looks as if these two diamonds are simply as shut IRL as they’re within the Ton.