The wife of The Devil Wears Prada 2 star Patrick Bramall has publicly applauded the backlash his character has received.
Brammall played Peter (Andy’s love interest) in the 2006 sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, but his character was not well received as critics deemed Peter unnecessary and unworthy of Andy (played by Anne Hathaway).
Brammall’s wife, Australian actress Harriet Dyer, responded to Cosmopolitan magazine’s Instagram post on Tuesday shading Peter. The magazine wrote, “A near-perfect sequel sullied by a man of no value? It’s likely to happen.”
Dyer commented that he was responsible for how Brammall’s character was edited.
“Mean post. Scenes are cut out. Editing is cruel,” she wrote.
She also pointed out that the photo Cosmo used of Bramall and Hathaway smiling broadly and showing PDA on the streets of New York City was actually from a scene that was cut from the final film.
“I loved him,” she wrote of her husband. “And I married him.”
Brammall and Dyer have been dating since 2017 and married in March 2021. They adopted daughter Joni in 2021 and welcomed daughter Mabel in February 2025.
In a Cosmo article published last week titled “Andy’s one-dimensional boyfriend is an insult to single women around the world,” the writer slammed Peter’s character as “the most one-dimensional” but also pointed out that Bramall was not to blame.
“Patrick has no shadow. He was written that way,” the writer said.
In the writer’s opinion, Andy should not have been in a romantic relationship, considering that this movie has a lot to do with Andy’s career.
“Why in 2026 are we still so afraid of women who are proud to be single and childless?” they asked.
Adrian Grenier’s Nate, who was Andy’s boyfriend in the first film, has also received a lot of hate from fans over the years, with some calling him the film’s true villain due to his lack of support for Andy.
Page Six spoke with Grenier in March and admitted he was “disappointed” not to be asked to appear in the sequel.
“But I also understand that there’s some backlash against the character Nate, so maybe that has something to do with it,” he told Us.
Still, he wished his character had more of a life, adding, “But I think it just leaves room for a spinoff.”
