‘The Bold Type’ Romance Rundown: Who Did Sutton, Kat & Jane End Up With?
What To Know
- The Bold Type is now streaming on HBO Max.
- The show originally ran for five seasons on Freeform.
- The show revolved around three best friends, Jane, Sutton, and Kat.
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for all seasons of The Bold Type.]
It’s been more than four years since The Bold Type ended on Freeform. Over the course of five seasons, viewers got to know a trio of best friends, Jane (Katie Stevens), Sutton (Meghann Fahy), and Kat (Aisha Dee), who worked together at a magazine called Scarlet in New York City.
In addition to their careers, the ladies also helped each other through relationship ups and downs, but how did their stories conclude at the end of the series? With The Bold Type now streaming on HBO Max, we’re looking back at how the show ended. Scroll down for a refresh on Jane, Sutton, and Kat’s love lives.
Who does Sutton end up with on The Bold Type?
Sutton ended up with Richard Hunter (Sam Page), but getting to their happy ending wasn’t easy. The pair’s relationship started in secret, with Sutton, who was in her 20s, working as an assistant and Richard, in his early 40s, serving as Scarlet magazine’s lawyer.
They eventually came clean to HR about their romance, and after some ups and downs, including a split in Season 3, they got married in the Season 4 finale. In the show’s final season, Sutton and Richard nearly divorced after a miscarriage led them to realize they were on different paths about wanting kids.
In fact, divorce papers were even filed, but Richard ultimately told Sutton, “I always wanted kids, but I want you more.”
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Following the finale, Fahy told Variety that Richard and Sutton’s story was supposed to end in divorce until the night before filming. “Based on some conversations that I had had with them, and that Sam had had with them, they just kind of flipped it, which was really exciting because it’s not something that I thought was going to happen,” she revealed.
Of the writers’ decision to change the ending at the last minute, she explained, “We sort of felt like [them not ending up together] sucked. It didn’t feel very true to the way that we had built those characters and their relationship in all of the prior seasons. So they changed it, and then they did end up together. And that was such a satisfying thing for me, and for Sam, and I hope for the audience, too.”
Who does Kat end up with on The Bold Type?
Kat ended up with Adena (Nikohl Boosheri). The ladies met in Season 1 when Kat, who was then Scarlet’s social media editor, prepared a feature on Adena, a photographer.
After a brief relationship, they crossed paths throughout the series, and hooked up in the finale. However, Adena didn’t think a romance would be possible due to Kat’s commitment issues, so they agreed to just be friends. By the end of the episode, though, Kat realized she wanted more, and they agreed to give their relationship a shot under their own rules.
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“I think they are forever now,” showrunner Wendy Straker Hauser told TV Insider. “There’s not going to be another Kat-Adena breakup or Kat running to Adena’s doorway or anything like that. They are more solid than ever before. It will be an ongoing conversation for them on what their relationship looks like and what makes the two of them happy, but I kind of smile when I think to myself, they’re probably more traditional than they even realize in the sense that they’re just going to end up so happy together and be conquering the world during the day and night and want to just cuddle up and be together when they’re not saving the world and enjoy each other’s company.”
Who does Jane end up with on The Bold Type?
Jane ended The Bold Type single, instead choosing to focus on her career. She gave up the editor-in-chief position at Scarlet so she could travel the world and continue writing, which was always her greatest passion.
Throughout the series, Jane had an on/off relationship with Ryan (Dan Jeannotte), better known as Pinstripe (the name of the magazine he worked for). However, when he cheated on her while on his book tour in Season 4, she ended the relationship. Jane briefly had a connection with one of her employees, Scott (Mat Vairo), in Season 5, and even hooked up with a bodyguard she was interviewing for a story, but in the end, she chose herself.
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However, Jane was on good terms with Pinstripe by the series finale. She ran into him in the lobby of Scarlet’s office building and they had a friendly catch-up.
“I was so overjoyed that he even got to come back for just one little episode because the writers had always said, ‘We’re gonna blow it up. But if we get another season, we want you guys to end up together,'” Stevens told Variety. “But to be able to do that in a six-episode season, where the first half of that season I’m with my employee, isn’t really possible.”
Hauser weighed in on the future of Jane and Pinstripe and said she could see them together one day. “If we had all the episodes in the world, I would not be opposed to entertaining that,” she said. “I really believe that Ryan met the love of his life and he will regret that he lost her for a very, very long time. He was just in his 20s and not mature enough to meet the girl that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, but he did. That happens sometimes. And so I’m of the mindset that it was terrible, terrible timing, but that he loved her with all his heart and that they could have had a happily ever after. So, one never knows if that would happen.”
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