Regé-Jean Page, who plays heartthrob Simon Basset on the Netflix series “Bridgerton,” will read a bedtime story on tv. Page will read “Rain Before Rainbows” by Smriti Halls and David Litchfield on Sunday on the British program “Cheebies.”
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With Bridgerton, Dungeons and Dragons, and The Gray Man under his belt, Page becomes a major player in the battle to become Bond.
UK bookies Ladbrokes told Express Online: Punters are hooked on Rege-Jean Page with odds at 5/1 .
This puts him ahead of Idris Elba and Sam Heughan on 6/1, and poised just behind Tom Hardy and James Norton, who share the lead on 2/1.
Page himself has spoken out recently about being in contention for the biggest role in cinema.
Rege-Jean Page is closing on Tom Hardy as favourite to be the next James Bond (Image: GETTY)
Page told US chatshow host Jimmy Kimmel: The internet says a lot of things and that is one of the more pleasant things.
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