{"id":1995428,"date":"2025-09-03T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1995428"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:50:14","slug":"michelle-dockery-downton-abbey-star-is-pregnant-with-first-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michelle-dockery-downton-abbey-star-is-pregnant-with-first-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey Star, Is Pregnant With First Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5. Downton’s first OMG moment came when Matthew Crawley, the series’ dashing male lead, was killed in the season three finale. “There were a lot of very upset people demanding apologies,” Stevens told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> of his decision to exit the show at the end of his three-year contract.<\/p>\n

As for why he was ready to say goodbye to Downton, he explained, “Doing a long-running TV thing was amazing on all sorts of levels. But at the moment, it’s about seeing how I can keep myself challenged and entertained.”<\/p>\n

6. In an interview with E! News<\/a>, Fellowes stressed it was Steven’s choice to leave (and not return for an appearance in season four) that lead to the character’s sudden demise.<\/p>\n

Noting that in America, contracts tend to be longer, “it seemed to them that the production team had just decided you know,” he continued as he made a throat-slitting motion. “But in fact, he had just gotten to the end of his three-year contract and he wanted to go on and do different stuff…We just had to make it work. Some of the letters I got made your hair stand on ends!”<\/p>\n

7. But Matthew’s devastating death didn’t keep away viewers as the season four premiere shattered ratings records, attracting 10.2 million viewers.<\/p>\n

8. If Stevens had notified Fellowes sooner of his intention to leave the series, he said he would’ve staged fan-favorite Lady Sybil’s exit differently: “I probably would have killed them together in a car crash.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5. Downton’s first OMG moment came when Matthew Crawley, the series’ dashing male lead, was killed in the season three finale. “There were a lot of very upset people demanding apologies,” Stevens told Entertainment Weekly of his decision to exit the show at the end of his three-year contract. As for why he was ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1995429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michelle-Dockery-Downton-Abbey-Star-Is-Pregnant-With-First-Baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}