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Adjoa Andoh's kids don't care that she is famous. The 61-year-old star - who has Liam, 28, and Jesse, 27, with her husband Howard Cunnell as well Daisy, 33, from a previous relationship - is known around the world to Netflix audiences as Lady Danbury in the hit period drama 'Bridgerton' but insisted that because she had always been a jobbing actress before finding global fame, everything is still just normal for her children. Speaking on UK TV show 'Loose Women', she said: "They don't care. 'Is there food in the fridge?' That's all they want to know. 'Can you put £20 in my account?' That's wha...
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Adjoa Andoh learned to "fight" her way through her school years. The 61-year-old actress grew up in a small English village in which she and her family were the only black people and found that the other children "seized on her difference" so learned "very quickly" how to deal with it. She told The Guardian: "There were three black people in our village: me, my dad and my brother. I was the only girl of colour in a secondary school of over 1,000 kids. Children seize on your difference. "But they also seize on your smartness and your comedy value. I could also fight – I learned very quickly tha...
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Adjoa Andoh felt ready to film 'Bridgerton' "30 years ago". The 60-year-old actress plays Lady Danbury in the hit Netflix show, and Adjoa has relished the experience of shooting 'Bridgerton' alongside such a diverse cast. Adjoa told the Guardian newspaper: "I was ready for 'Bridgerton' 30 years ago. "But as we know, things take a long time to catch up. I think that genie’s out of the bottle now in terms of fictional historical drama, unless maybe you’re setting something in Iceland in 50 BC." Adjoa is open about her political beliefs. However the actress has never been pigeonholed into politic...
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‘Bridgerton’ star Adjoa Andoh endured brutal bullying at school over her skin colour. The 60-year-old actress, who plays Lady Danbury in the Netflix romance show, was born to an English mother and an upper class Ghanaian father, and was singled out as the only Black child at her school in the Cotswolds, even having her head smashed into walls by racist fellow pupils. Asked her first memory of pain, she told MailOnline: “Having my head smashed against the wall in the infants, and it's a traditional Cotswold stone county primary school, so Cotswold stone it's bumpy. “You know like in the Beano y...
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Arsema Thomas didn't watch 'Bridgerton' before she auditioned for 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'. The 28-year-old actress plays young Agatha Danbury in the new Netflix series, and Arsema admits she never saw how Adjoa Andoh approached playing her character in 'Bridgerton'. She told PEOPLE: "I never watched ['Bridgerton' before auditioning], I came in just being what I thought this character should be. "Somehow, by I don't know what kind of cosmic aligning, it happened to be very similar to how Adjoa sees this character as well." Arsema believes that herself and Adjoa actually share a lo...
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Adjoa Andoh's sex scenes have always been "very pragmatic". The 60-year-old actress - who plays Lady Danbury in 'Bridgerton' - insists that shooting nude and sex scenes during her career has always been a "collaborative" process. She told The Independent: "It’s always been very pragmatic, there’s been nothing salacious in it … but I know that’s not everybody’s experience." Adjoa feels it's important to strike a balance between "intimacy" and ensuring that the performers feel safe. 'Bridgerton' was actually one of the first TV shows to consistently use intimacy coordinators, and Adjoa admits th...
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Luke Newton was drawn towards musical theatre after being diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. The 29-year-old actor - who is best known for playing Colin Bridgerton in the hit Netflix series 'Bridgerton' - admits reading a script can be a "nightmare" and that's why he initially pursued a career in musical theatre. He explained: "I knew I could learn songs really quickly and melodies came quite easily to me." Luke is now determined to prove that actors with ADHD and dyslexia can still enjoy successful careers. He confessed that having a learning difficulty creates a challenge for him as an actor,...
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Adjoa Andoh admits the second season of 'Bridgerton' will feature lots of steamy sex scenes. The 58-year-old actress plays Lady Danbury in the Netflix series, but Adjoa insists she isn't fazed by the show's notorious sex scenes. She said: "I wasn’t shocked. I grew up on my mum’s Georgette Heyer and Jean Plaidy library books, where I learned a lot about history and sex." Adjoa's character will "look fabulous and be fabulous" in the new season of the show. And although she's remaining tight-lipped about plot details, Adjoa explained that fans can expect more of the same from Lady Danbury. She sh...
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Phoebe Dynevor has admitted Rege-Jean Page's 'Bridgerton' exit has been "a spanner" for the show. The 26-year-old actress had a "heads up" that her friend and co-star was planning to leave the programme after one season as the Duke of Hastings - and though she knows his decision will have caused some short-term problems, she doesn't think it will affect the long-term future of the Netflix period drama. She said: "I had a bit of a heads up so I knew but yeah, I guess it is a spanner. But again, the show centers around the Bridgertons and there are eight books. I think maybe the fans of the book...
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Adjoa Andoh thinks Rege-Jean Page will be a big miss on the set of 'Bridgerton'. The London-born actor played the Duke of Hastings in season one of the Netflix period drama, and Adjoa has admitted she'll miss him on set, even though his exit makes sense for the arc of the story. Adjoa, 58 - who plays Lady Danbury in the hit show - told 'Daily Pop': "We're following the overriding framework of Julia Quinn's beautiful novels. There are eight Bridgerton children: one down, seven to go. "Season two, it's Anthony Bridgerton, so there you are. That's the arc of the show. We all love Rege and we're a...
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