‘Ted Lasso’s New Mystery: Who is Rebecca Texting on Bantr?

Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 5 “Rainbow” is an ode to romantic comedies. From Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) hilariously rushing to be with his one true love, the soccer pitch, to Higgins (Jeremy Swift) sweetly declaring his love for his own “rainbow,” it’s a schmaltzy ode to feel-good love stories. Which leads us to ask…is Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) on the verge of her happily ever after? A key theme of this season has been AFC Richmond’s owner’s quest to find someone worthy of her. And it seems she’s found someone she connects with on the blind dating app Bantr. What if it’s Coach Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) himself?

Ted Lasso Season 1 told the story of a chipper Midwest college football coach who suddenly found himself coaching an English Premiere League team. Ted Lasso’s strange journey to English soccer coach was in fact designed to fail. Rebecca Welton, the club’s new owner, wanted to ruin AFC Richmond in order to get revenge on her vindictive ex-husband. She believed that Ted would be doomed from the start and even attempted to sabotage him. However something extraordinary happened. Rebecca not only grew to accept Ted, but they also became good friends. And now some fans might be wondering if Rebecca and Ted will be something more.

In Ted Lasso Season 2, we are introduced to a new dating app called Bantr. Users have to communicate without seeing pictures, ensuring that connections are personality based first and foremost. In Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 5, we learn that Rebecca is smitten with a mystery man she’s texting on the app. Could it be…Ted Lasso?

Decider asked Hannah Waddingham how she felt about the fact that many fans might be expecting a Ted/Rebecca hookup by season’s end.

“I think people want them to get together because that’s what society does in television or in film. The male and female lead, the ‘Will they? Won’t they?'” Waddingham said. “But I love the fact that Jason [Sudeikis]’s never really acknowledged that. And it’s fun that people go, ‘Ooo! There’s a little twinkle there!'”

“And to be perfectly honest with you, I genuinely — because I can’t hide anything on this big plate of a face — I genuinely don’t know [if Ted and Rebecca will get together]. Thank god,” she laughed.

In fact, Waddingham teased that she wanted fans to be concerned with Rebecca’s overall journey this season and not simply her love life.

“Do you know what? The rest of the season for her is such a voyage of discovery and failure and discovery and happiness and concern and I want everyone to watch that play out because I want them to go on this journey with her and feel like they’re her pals and go, ‘Ugh, mate! Why are you doing that?'” she said.

Guess we’ll have to wait for Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 6 to see if there are any more clues about who Rebecca’s mystery man on Bantr is…

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