Somebody Asked If The World Was Ready For “Mixed-Weight” Relationships On Screen, And The Internet Went Off

Before the first batch of episodes hit our screens back in May, Nicola excited fans by teasing that Penelope and Colin would be getting very hot and heavy in front of the camera.

And Nicola won high praise when she revealed that she had actively requested to add more nudity to her and Colin’s sex scenes for a very poignant reason. 

But while most Bridgerton fans celebrated this representation, not everybody was kind, and a Spectator article ended up going viral after its author body-shamed Nicola and declared that she is “not hot.” 

They added that it’s “simply not plausible as the friend who would catch the handsome rich aristocrat Colin Bridgerton’s eye in that way.”

And while the full article is actually in complete support of Penelope and Colin’s fictional romance, the headline has ruffled feathers on social media. 

Alongside a screenshot of the article, one viral tweet reads: “Mixed weight relationships I hate it here.” 

Another user tweeted: “MIXED WEIGHT lmaoooo what about their ‘mixed height’ or ‘mixed hair’ jfc just let women exist.”

Doug and Carrie Heffernan in The King of Queens, and Marge and Homer Simpson were also referenced. 

The original tweet has since been seen more than 2 million times, and now has tens of thousands of likes and retweets from people agreeing with the sentiment.

Commenting on the TV trope, one person wrote: “Always the same, average to unattractive man, usually hot or at least very attractive woman who's several leagues above his level - she holds their lives together while he apparently works and then spends his life not appreciating how ridiculously lucky he is…”

“Every day there's a brand-new way introduced to women that makes them feel bad about their perfectly fine bodies, and their perfectly acceptable desires,” another tweeted. “Quite apart from an evident fact - Nicola Coughlan is a stone-cold stunner.”

“I don't even know what this means because Nicola Coughlan is a (stunningly beautiful) straight-sized woman,” one more wrote. “She can go into pretty much any store and they will have her size (as long as there's a petite section). Hollywood is absolutely wild and detached from reality.”

While somebody else summed up the discourse by tweeting: “Remember it's only a mixed weight relationship when the woman is fat! Fat men are still loveable!!!!”