Phoebe Waller-Bridge reveals why there won't be any future seasons of Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge broke our hearts after season two of Fleabag by revealing that that was it - there'd be no more series of the show. Fans up and down the country were devastated by the admission, desperate to know if Fleabag and The (Hot) Priest actually end up together after all despite them parting ways in the season finale.

Although Phoebe's on-screen sister Sian Clifford AKA Claire said that there wouldn't be any more series thanks to the "perfect" ending of series two, that hasn't stopped fans of the show hoping that it could return.

Plus there's the fact that Amazon boss Jennifer Salke has expressed her wish for a third season, saying that "nothing would make us happier to bring another season of her show," and that she's "forever the optimist."

But after Phoebe joked that the only way a third series would be made "when she's 50," she's now spoken out about exactly why she doesn't want to continue with the show, which is based on a one-woman stage show that she wrote and performed.

Speaking on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Phoebe revealed that there was actually never even supposed to be a second series of the show, telling the audience, "I was very smug about not coming back because I thought I had a lot of artistic integrity. The first season had a proper ending in my mind and it was based on a play and it was adapted to the same ending.

"Fleabag talks to the camera a lot in the first season and by the end she stops talking to the camera. I thought, 'Unless I can re-invent a reason for why she talks to the camera again, I can’t see how I can justify coming back'. Going back to the second season with the same persona even though her family know her dark secret seemed dishonest to the camera."

She then explained that she was happy to do a second season after thinking up the clever moments where The Priest is able to work out what she's doing, "When I came up with the trick of another character seeing that she looks to the camera, that’s when the whole thing cracked open again."

So there's hope after all!

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