Adjoa Andoh on her Bridgerton future, the way the cast has grown up and being a famous grandma

The actress is the latest guest to open up to Jenni Murray on Saga’s podcast Experience is Everything.

Adjoa Andoh and Jenni Murray film the Saga podcast

By Kate Randall | Published - 23 Feb 2026

As Bridgerton returns to our screens for the second half of series four, there is speculation that one of its main stars is set to leave.

Adjoa Andoh, who has played Lady Danbury in the regency Netflix drama since it first aired in 2020, recently said her character needed a “sabbatical” from the show leading to rumours she would not be returning for series five.

However, when chatting to Jenni Murray on the latest episode of Saga’s podcast Experience is Everything, the 63-year-old reveals she is set to start filming for series five and is excited to be back with the rest of the cast.

When asked if she had started filming for series five, Adjoa replied, “I couldn’t possibly say when, but it will be happening, yes. I was talking to another cast member about it and we were saying, ‘We don’t live in each other’s pockets and when we’re not doing the show, we’re off living our lives’. But there is this family that you come back to. And there’s something really lovely about that.

“You catch up on who’s doing what and what’s been going on. And our two young Bridgertons, Will and Flo [Will Tilston and Florence Hunt], you look at photographs of them from season one, they were tiddlers. Now, they’re over 18. They drink alcohol and they have relationships. So we’ve sort of grown up together in a way.”

On the podcast Adjoa also speaks about how hard it was as a working mother with three children, how her love of punk music saved her during a dark time in her teens and how her six-year-old grandson, Luca, deals with having a famous “nana”.

“One day at school, [my daughter] Jesse said the kids were watching some CBeebies, and at one point I came on and I was reading a story, one of the bedtime stories, all actors fight to do reading the bedtime stories, it’s great! And he went, ‘That’s my Nana.’ And I think his teacher went, ‘Yes, of course it is, dear.’ And then I picked him up from school one day, and she went, ‘Oh, that WAS your Nana!’ So I think that might be the only thing he’s seen me on.”

Listen to Adjoa on Experience is Everything. You can also hear previous episodes including interviews with Paul Merton, Alex Kingston and Sir Trevor McDonald.

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