Jessica Madsen revealed she was in a relationship with a woman on Saturday, as the Bridgerton star shared an inspirational post for Pride Month.
The actress, 32, is known for playing the mean girl of the ton, Cressida Cowper, in the Netflix period drama.
She took to her Instagram on June 1 to declare that she was ‘in love with a woman’, as she shared a slew of artwork celebrating LGBTQ+ community.
Jessica also posted a powerful historical photo of a march after the Stonewall Riots and a short video of herself smiling at the camera.
She wore a tie-dye shirt and black bucket hat that read ‘Supreme love’, while sporting rainbow coloured rhinestones under her eyes.
Jessica Madsen revealed she was in a relationship with a woman on Saturday, as the Bridgerton star shared an inspirational post for Pride Month
The actress, 32, is known for playing the mean girl of the ton, Cressida Cowper, in the Netflix period drama (pictured with Claudia Jessie in show)
She took to her Instagram on June 1 to declare that she was ‘in love with a woman’, as she shared a slew of artwork celebrating LGBTQ + community
In the caption, she simply wrote: ‘In Love with a woman, loud about it and proud about it! #pride #pridemonth #loveislove #gaypride’.
Jessica received a flood of supportive and praising comments, including from many of her Bridgerton co-stars.
Penelope Featherington’s Nicola Coughlan and Anthony Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey both commented with a series of heart emojis.
While the author of the original Bridgerton books, Julia Quinn, also shared a string of rainbow hearts.
Hannah Dodd, who plays Francesca Bridgerton, wrote: ‘Love youuuuuu’ and Joanna Bobbin, who plays Jessica’s mother in the show, Lady Cowper, gushed: ‘Go baby girl! Love you ❤️❤️❤️’.
Jessica has previously been candid about her sexuality in the past, and marked last year’s Pride Month with a powerful post about bisexuality.
Sharing a number of shots with messages like ‘Bisexuals are not ‘confused” and ‘bi af’, she captioned the post: ‘Bi the way…. Happy Pride month ❤️.’
But as well as inspire many of her followers, Jessica’s post also sent Bridgerton fans wild as they speculated that it was a sign that her character was also going to be queer in the show.
Jessica also posted a powerful historical photo of a march after the Stonewall Riots and a short video of herself smiling at the camera
She wore a tie-dye shirt and black bucket hat that read ‘Supreme love’, while sporting rainbow coloured rhinestones under her eyes
In the caption, she simply wrote: ‘In Love with a woman, loud about it and proud about it! #pride #pridemonth #loveislove #gaypride’
Jessica received a flood of supportive and praising comments, including from many of her Bridgerton co-stars, Nicola Coughlan, Jonathan Bailey, Hannah Dodd and Joanna Bobbin
Fans have long speculated that a possible queer romance could be explored in the show between Cressida and Eloise Bridgerton, played by Claudia Jessie.
The theory gained traction when the Bridgerton show runner confirmed queer relationships will be explored in future seasons of the series.
The recently released series three of the show saw Eloise develop a close bond with Cressida, with many viewers hoping it will blossom into something more – coining the ship name ‘Creloise’ for the couple.
After Jessica’s post, several rushed to the comments and to Twitter to voice their belief that it was a sign that Cressida and Eloise would get a love story arc.
They excitedly gushed: ‘THIS IS WHY I FELT CRELOISE! My gaydar wasn’t wrong! on a serious note, I’m so happy for you! Oh we CLOCKED Cressida so quickkkk’.
‘justice for creloise that would be the perfect pride month celebration; so gay vibes between Eloise and Cressida was real?’
‘Creloise confirmed; eloise and cressida are 2 conversations away from realizing theyre in love like’.
‘manifesting creloise; i know i’m new here but if cressida and eloise don’t kiss i will put a curse on the house of Netflix’.
Jessica has previously been candid about her sexuality in the past, and marked last year’s Pride Month with a powerful post about bisexuality
Fans have long speculated that a possible queer romance could be explored in the show between Cressida and Eloise Bridgerton, played by Claudia Jessie (pictured together in May)
The recently released series three of the show saw Eloise develop a close bond with Cressida, with many viewers hoping it will blossom into something more – coining the ship name ‘Creloise’ for the couple (pictured in show)
‘Babe, wake up. It’s June 1 and Cressida Cowper said, “Yep. I’m gay,” and Penelope Featherington said, “I love that for you”.’
Showrunner Jess Brownell was recently asked by Refinery29 Australia if there would be any major storylines including LGBTQ+ characters.
She confimed: ‘Yeah, absolutely. I think this is a show about the many ways in which people love.
‘So it only feels right to show all the ways in which people love, including queer love. So we are exploring queer love stories across the next couple of seasons.’
While she didn’t specify which characters, she added: ‘I don’t want to say exactly how that plays out. But it was important to me to foreground queer love and to tell queer stories and tell stories about queer joy as well.’
Since the release of the first part of series three, viewers have pointed at the ways in which they think there is love on the cards for Eloise and Cressida, pointing at their use of ‘courting language’ together.
While Jessica herself confirmed that she would ‘love’ fans to read Cressida’s relationship with Eloise as ‘queer-coded’.
In an interview with Decider last month, she said: ‘And queer-coded? I absolutely love that. That would be the best!
‘Yeah, I mean, that would be cool. I like to think it would make sense because, like, she hasn’t bagged a guy. So, like, why not a gal? But yeah, I have really no idea.’
After Jessica’s post, several rushed to the comments and to Twitter to voice their belief that it was a sign that Cressida and Eloise would get a love story arc
Since the release of the first part of series three, viewers have pointed at the ways in which they think there is love on the cards for Eloise and Cressida, pointing at their use of ‘courting language’ together
While Jessica herself confirmed that she would ‘love’ fans to read Cressida’s relationship with Eloise as ‘queer-coded’ (pictured with Claudia last month)
