Emily in… Italy, nonetheless? On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled the premiere date of Emily in Paris Season 5, together with a sequence of first-look photographs.
The upcoming season will proceed to observe the titular American advertising government, performed by Lily Collins, as she embraces a change of scene: life in Venice, Italy.
“This season is a story of two cities. Rome and Paris,” creator Darren Star instructed Netflix’s Tudum. “Straddling each, Emily takes love and life to the following degree.”
Emily is now seemingly dwelling the Italian dream: She’s landed the profession alternative of a lifetime and is lastly in an uncomplicated relationship with an enthralling Italian man. The official Season 5 description, nonetheless, hints at bother forward:
“Now the pinnacle of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces skilled and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a brand new metropolis. However simply as every thing falls into place, a piece concept backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and profession setbacks. Searching for stability, Emily leans into her French life-style, till a giant secret threatens one in all her closest relationships. Tackling battle with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed readability, and a readiness to embrace new potentialities.”
Beneath, we’re breaking down every thing there’s to learn about Season 5 of Emily in Paris.
When does Season 5 come out?
All 10 episodes of Emily in Paris might be obtainable to stream on Netflix on Dec. 18, 2025.
Who might be a part of the Season 5 solid?
Among the many confirmed and returning solid members are: Lily Collins (Emily Cooper), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (Sylvie Grateau), Ashley Park (Mindy Chen), Lucas Bravo (Gabriel), Samuel Arnold (Julien), Bruno Gouery (Luc), William Abadie (Antoine Lambert), Lucien Laviscount (Alfie), Eugenio Franceschini (Marcello), Thalia Besson (Genevieve), Paul Forman (Nico) and Arnaud Binard (Laurent G).
Deadline introduced two new additions to the Season 5 roster in July: Bryan Greenberg (Fits LA, Junction) will play Jake, an American expat dwelling in Paris, and Michèle Laroque (Brilliantissime) will play Yvette, one in all Sylvie’s oldest mates.
In Might, Deadline additionally confirmed that Oscar-nominated actress Minnie Driver (Good Will Looking, Will & Grace) joined the solid. Driver will painting Princess Jane, a buddy of Sylvie’s who marries into royalty.
Camille Razat, nonetheless, is one solid member who won’t be returning for Season 5. Razat, who’s starred as Gabriel’s on-again, off-again girlfriend for the reason that first season, confirmed the information in an Instagram put up from April 2025.
“After an unbelievable journey, I’ve made the choice to step away from Emily in Paris,” she wrote. “This character has meant lots to me, and I really feel that her storyline has naturally come to an finish. It felt like the appropriate second to discover new horizons.”
The place did we go away off, anyway?
The place do we start?! When Gabriel finds out that Camille is pregnant — which she lies about, by the way in which — he begins to prioritize her and their unborn child over Emily, which strains their relationship. At one level, Gabriel leaves Emily stranded on the high of a mountain to take care of Camille, prompting Emily’s realization that she’ll by no means be the precedence of their relationship. Emily breaks up with Gabriel because of this.
Desirous to get away, Emily agrees to supervise the opening of a brand new Agence Grateau workplace in Rome. There she sparks a romance with Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini), an inheritor to a outstanding Italian cashmere firm.
Season 4 ends with Emily again in Rome in a extra everlasting capability, now because the lead of the brand new Agence Grateau location. Her burgeoning relationship with Marcello additionally influences her determination to take the job. Gabriel, in the meantime, learns of Camille’s “nonpregnancy.”
Collins in Emily in Rome. (Carloline Dubois/Netflix)
Whereas the sequence resumes in Italy, Star is assuring followers that Emily will be returning to France.
“She didn’t change her Instagram deal with to ‘Emily in Rome.’ She is working in Rome generally. Sylvie’s firm has an workplace in Rome. Emily’s getting that on its toes,” Star beforehand instructed Deadline. “I don’t essentially assume that it means a everlasting — in my thoughts, it’s positively not a everlasting — transfer to Rome. We’re not leaving Paris.”
Do we all know what the storylines are about?
Whereas we don’t know a ton of particulars, we do know that Emily will proceed to discover issues with Marcello, which Collins revealed she’s on board with.
“Marcello is an entire different journey that we would like for Emily as a result of we in the end need Emily to have the ability to have a greater work/life steadiness,” she instructed Tudum. “We wish to have Emily be capable to smile with out situation. We wish to see her past her vacay mode. And he comes at that excellent time.”
Collins with costar Eugenio Franceschini. (Giulia Parmigiani/Netflix)
Star instructed Tudum that the power of Emily and Marcello’s connection will issue into Season 5.
“I really feel like they’ve an actual spark and an actual connection and an actual romantic connection. A number of that’s going to proceed to play out subsequent season,” he mentioned.
What has the solid mentioned?
In an October 2024 interview with IndieWire, Bravo hinted at the opportunity of not returning to Emily in Paris.
“The ‘horny chef’ was very a lot a part of me in Season 1 and we grew aside season after season due to the alternatives he makes and due to the course they make him take. I’ve by no means been so distant from him,” he mentioned.
Bravo initially noticed “loads of me in [Gabriel]” in Season 1, however was dissatisfied that they “made him type of unaware of his environment” and that he was “at all times victimizing” and “being fully misplaced in translation.”
Lucas Bravo, proper, who performs Gabriel on Emily in Paris. (Carloline Dubois/Netflix)
“It type of grew to become not enjoyable for me to shoot or to see a personality I like a lot and introduced me a lot, being slowly changed into guacamole. I actually grew other than him,” he added.
The Freedom star appeared to have modified his tune by April 2025. In an interview with Parade, Bravo revealed plans to start filming the fifth season of Emily in Paris in Might and that “it’s the very best season to date.”
“I had lunch with Darren a number of days again, and he instructed me a bit with out telling me an excessive amount of. I feel followers are going to lose it. It’s the craziest one to date,” he instructed the outlet.
