THE Bridgerton buzz that has been reverberating through social media for the last few months is hard to ignore.

But, for those of you who haven’t caught up with the third instalment of the Regency romance, there isn’t much to know: former wallflower and secret gossip columnist Penelope Featherington (played by Ireland’s own Nicola Coughlan) falls in love and marries handsome, though slightly annoying, posh guy with a pout, Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) - and that’s it.

Except the glamourous glossy magazines and social media trolls just couldn’t leave it alone, could they?

Following the release of the second half of the season in June, which involved a rather exposing sex scene between Coughlan and Newton, my social media was inundated with stories and posts commenting on the actress’s body and how it doesn’t fit within conventional beauty standards - thus, apparently, rendering the relationship between the two unrealistic.

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