If you've only seen the show, you're not getting the whole "Bridgerton" package. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at our favorite “Bridgerton” book scenes that wrongly ended up on the cutting room floor.
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00:00In fact, I should like to see it soon. Before our child come.
00:03Now?
00:04Mm.
00:04Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're looking at our favourite Bridgerton book scenes
00:08that wrongly ended up on the cutting room floor.
00:11I am simply enjoying the view of my ravishing wife, and soon-to-be mother of my child.
00:17Mm.
00:19Number 10. Daphne Advises Colin
00:21In Romancing Mr Bridgerton, Colin's first port of call when he starts deciphering his feelings for Penelope is Daphne.
00:28What are you both doing here?
00:29Did not think I would see you until tomorrow.
00:31Your mother called us in early.
00:33Thought you might want some marital advice.
00:36Colin instead talks to Anthony and Kate, and though their advice works,
00:40it's also very vague considering he doesn't bother telling them what's actually wrong.
00:45What is going on with you and Penelope?
00:47All is well between us.
00:49The smell of fermented fruit emanating from your person would indicate otherwise.
00:53But in the books, that's not what Colin is grappling with.
00:56He's conflicted because he thinks love should be instantaneous.
01:00Like a bolt of lightning.
01:01And that's not how his love for Penelope has grown.
01:04Daphne is on hand to be his confidant.
01:06While in the show, Phoebe Dinover did not return for Season 3,
01:10though we can't blame her.
01:12I do not wish to unburden myself to you two with your perfect marriage.
01:16You think our marriage is perfect?
01:17Is it not?
01:18Number 9. Colin's Journals
01:20Now, we did, of course, read some of Colin's journals in the show,
01:24but book readers know that this whole scene is very different.
01:27Not only does he cut his hand with a letter opener rather than a shard of glass,
01:30but the content of the entry Penelope reads is actually about Europe's picturesque beaches,
01:36not the many women Colin seduced in Paris.
01:39In those moments alone, as my fingers trace freckles from cheek to collarbone.
01:44We also see more of his writing in the books,
01:46as he presents Pen with long passages about his travels in Scotland,
01:50which would have been great to include.
01:53Were you reading that?
01:54No, I did not mean to.
01:55You did not mean to pick up my journal and read it?
01:57And the name of his book is different too.
01:59Colin's first book is called An Englishman in Italy.
02:03While in the show, they named it Travelling With Myself.
02:06It is better than I expected.
02:08Are you old enough to read that?
02:10Number 8. Michaela Falling For Francesca
02:13Like Julia Quinn herself, we're all for the gender flipping of Michael to Michaela,
02:18which is sure to add more layers to the Bridgerton universe
02:21and make it even more meaningful to underrepresented groups.
02:24It gives me great pleasure to introduce...
02:27Michaela Sterling!
02:29But it is a little odd that in the only scene that they've had together,
02:33it appeared to be Francesca who fell head over heels.
02:36Every sort of detail John has spoken about me is a lie.
02:40The truth is power.
02:42Admittedly, we're not seeing things from Michaela's point of view,
02:45but in the books, Michael falls for Francesca as soon as he sees her,
02:49which happens to be at her wedding to John.
02:51And you must be?
02:56I, um...
02:58Well, I'm Francesca Bridgerton Kilmartin.
03:02Michaela is not in attendance at the wedding,
03:05with the genderbend reveal coming at the very end of the finale,
03:08but it would have been nice to see Michaela's feelings blossoming first.
03:12Number 7. Felicity Featherington
03:15If we use our minds to read, there may not be enough wits left for the baby.
03:18Mama must have read a great deal when she was pregnant with you then.
03:21Now, this isn't a scene, but an entire character,
03:24who has never existed in the show.
03:26Readers know that there is a fourth Featherington daughter, the youngest, Felicity,
03:31and that she's a lot more palatable than Philippa and Prudence,
03:35and more popular in the ton than Penelope.
03:37This is how I hear of my daughter's engagement?
03:41You hide out in your room all day,
03:44and you let me read about it in Whistledown.
03:47But there's one great Felicity scene,
03:49where Colin announces to the Featherington household
03:51that he wants to marry Portia's daughter.
03:53Excuse me.
03:54Mr. Bridgerton is here, Marv.
03:56Mr. Bridgerton, what an unexpected delight.
03:58I will not be staying long.
04:00Despite the fact that he's just arrived at the house with Penelope,
04:02Portia assumes he means Felicity,
04:05and it takes a while for him to persuade her that he is desperate to marry Pen,
04:08and doesn't care about Felicity,
04:10who's about the same age as Hyacinth.
04:13And were you not so narrowly concerned over your own standing,
04:16you might see that Penelope is the most eligible amongst you.
04:20Number six, the sofa scene.
04:22I know it does not look like much now,
04:24but once we lay out some of our furnishings and decorations...
04:29It's true that Pollen do have a steamy scene on a sofa in the show,
04:33but this is an amalgam of two separate sex scenes in the book.
04:37In the book version of the sofa scene, they don't go all the way,
04:40though Colin desperately wants to and knows Penelope will let him.
04:44I will always stand up for you.
04:48Because I love you.
04:50They stop themselves though, and later consummate their relationship in Colin's room,
04:54in a bed.
04:55But with many fans feeling like there weren't enough racy scenes in season three,
04:59we can't see the logic in combining these two scenes into one,
05:02when surely people would be more happy to see both of them.
05:05You must tell me to stop, I do not wish for this.
05:08I do not wish for you to stop.
05:10But Nicola Coughlan had said there's no truth to the rumours
05:13about there being extra deleted Pollen scenes.
05:16Do I look a mess?
05:19Yes, but you are my mess.
05:25You make it sound so easy.
05:27Nothing ever rattles you, does it?
05:30Oh, I believe your mother would have quite a few things to say about that.
05:34While we saw a lot of Anthony's trauma over his father's death,
05:37and he does believe that he shouldn't fall in love
05:39because he doesn't want to subject anybody else to the kind of grief Violet went through,
05:43it goes even deeper in the books.
05:45Help!
05:47What happened?
05:48I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
05:50Is it a bean? A bean, I think.
05:54In the books, Anthony is convinced that he's the victim of some sort of curse,
05:58and that he's not going to live beyond the age of 38,
06:01the age Edmund was when he dies.
06:03I'm so sorry that it was you who was with your father that day, Orion.
06:09Sorry for everything that happened in the days that followed.
06:13He just can't perceive outliving his father,
06:15and finds it hard to come to terms with the fact that he's A, in love with Kate,
06:19and B, not actually destined to die in his 30s.
06:22And indeed, he lives far beyond 38.
06:25And I would undoubtedly feel the same pain I felt all over again if I had to,
06:30because real, true love is worth it.
06:34Number four, Lady Danbury's bounty.
06:36Take a seat, and enjoy this momentous day with me.
06:40What is it that we are celebrating?
06:44The demise of Lady Whistledown.
06:46Queen Charlotte is not a character in the books whatsoever,
06:49and even Lady Danbury is nowhere near as essential,
06:52though we don't want to watch Bridgerton without them.
06:54Oh, Lady Danbury. We are going to have so much fun.
06:59Lady Danbury does play a vital role in book four, though,
07:03because she's the one who puts the bounty on Lady Whistledown's head,
07:06not the Queen, as in the show.
07:08Dearest members of my most esteemed ton,
07:11I hereby declare that whoever brings legitimate evidence
07:14of Lady Whistledown's identity to the palace
07:17shall receive a £5,000 reward.
07:20It makes sense that the Queen would place the bounty
07:22since she's so involved with the Whistledown mystery,
07:25but it's a shame to see Lady Danbury sidelined
07:27in one of the few books where she's integral to the plot.
07:31She also says she believes Penelope is Lady Whistledown much earlier,
07:35instead of saying this only after Pen has revealed herself.
07:38There is only one person who loves the Bridgertons more than I.
07:44You knew it was me?
07:46I suspect it.
07:47Number three, Simon's stutter.
07:49Why is he not saying anything?
07:51He's four years old, he should be able to speak.
07:54He is quite advanced in his letters.
07:56Like Collins' journals, Simon's stutter does appear in the show as well,
07:59we see a lot of flashbacks about his childhood
08:02and how he learned to manage his stammer,
08:04though it does re-emerge one or two times
08:06when he's particularly stressed or upset.
08:08What did you do?
08:11It's much more present in the books though,
08:13even in his adult life,
08:14and is one of the reasons the Duke chooses to isolate himself from society.
08:18Let us hear it, boy.
08:20Give me a word, a grunt.
08:23Talk to me, damn you!
08:25He's so self-conscious of his stammer
08:27that he grows extremely antisocial and enigmatic,
08:30while in the show, he's antisocial because he's a notorious rake
08:33with no interest in the marriage mart.
08:36Do... not...
08:41What is he doing?
08:44It would be nice to see more of his stutter
08:46and showing it affecting him into adult life.
08:49Number two, Anthony and Kate's wedding.
08:51While we did almost get to see a wedding in season two,
08:54we still feel short-changed that we missed the Cantoney wedding.
08:57You cannot imagine how charming our town in India is.
09:01It has been so long since I have ridden there.
09:04I should like to see it.
09:06This is because in the books, Kate and Anthony are made to get married
09:10after they're caught in a compromising position
09:13when Anthony tries to suck the venom from Kate's bee sting.
09:16We're not too sore that that scene was changed,
09:19but it does mean that Anthony goes ahead with his courtship of Edwina,
09:23getting all the way to the altar until she dramatically discovers the truth.
09:27Our child will always be a Bridgerton.
09:33But I should like them to know that they are a Sharma as well.
09:36These changes ultimately served the story better,
09:39but we still wanted to see the wedding.
09:41After all, we got to see Daphne and Simon's wedding and Pollen's,
09:45and those were much more fraught.
09:47I, Colin Bridgerton, take thee, Penelope Featherington,
09:54to be my wedded wife.
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10:121. Colin and Penelope first meet
10:15Do you remember when we first met?
10:17I was riding my horse, minding my own business,
10:19when I was assaulted by a devilishly yellow head covering.
10:23It was not my fault, the wind blew it clean off my head.
10:25One of the most glaring omissions in Bridgerton
10:27is the scene where Colin and Penelope first meet.
10:30In Book 4, the prologue gives us a flashback of Colin falling off his horse
10:34after Penelope's bonnet blows into his face.
10:37A wind or not, you certainly seemed pleased when I landed in the mud.
10:40I apologise.
10:42And you were so very charming about it, teasing me mercilessly in fact.
10:46In the show, he merely recounts this as an anecdote at the market
10:50and at their engagement party,
10:52making fans even more annoyed that it was referenced but never shown.
10:56After all, the previous two seasons did show us flashbacks of key events,
11:01Simon's vow to his father and Edmund Bridgerton's death,
11:04so it's baffling that this scene wasn't included.
11:06Most people, when they fall off a horse, are counseled to get back on it again.
11:11I say, stay down.
11:13For in the mud, you may happen to be blessed with your future bride.
11:16It's a slap in the face considering what little screen time Colin had together.
11:20Let us know in the comments whether you want the Colin cut of Bridgerton Season 3.
11:25Your writing...
11:29is very good.
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