2 hours ago Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we

A fourth film about Helen Fielding’s creation will be released on Valentines’s day, and this time it’s gen Z that has fallen in love with herBridget Jones is back. The fabled diary (probably a Surface Pro now) has snapped back open. The cigarettes are doubtless replaced by a Vaporesso vape.The new film, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, again starring Renée Zellweger, is being released into cine­mas on Valentine’s day, which feels appropriate. One of the most emotionally charged days of the year for the return of one of Britain’s more emotionally charged exports. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Renee Zellweger's red carpet secret weapon revealed: Bridget Jones icon loves to show her toned arms achieved through 'gruelling two

Her red carpet outings might be rare, but Renee Zellweger always turns heads when she does don her best glam. And the Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy premiere was no exception.

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22 hours ago Renee Zellweger told 'stop or you're going to die' in alarming warning from doctors

Renée Zellweger, who tonight appears on The Graham Norton Show, is set to reprise her best-loved role in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. But there's one question she refuses to answer

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31 hours ago Leo Woodall: Bridget Jones’ love interest character was meant to be Scottish

The actor prepared to play the role as a Scot until the producers changed their minds.

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32 hours ago Renée Zellweger reveals how she feels about Bridget Jones 4’s sad twist

Audiences have been left in tears by the film’s surprisingly emotional storyline

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34 hours ago Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant at London premiere

Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant at London premiere  India Today

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37 hours ago Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss – and why Bridget Jones is the female James BondMark Darcy is dead. Bridget Jones fans have been grieving since 2013, when Helen Fielding’s third novel, Mad About the Boy, was published sans Bridget’s hot human-rights lawyer husband. The outcry made front page news (as did the copies that were accidentally printed with 40 pages from David Jason’s memoir). People could not believe that romcom’s favourite reindeer-jumper-wearing dish, who proved that – ding dong! – nice men do kiss like that, was no more.“Someone ran out of the pub shouting: ‘You’ve murdered Colin Firth!’” Fielding says over a video call, tulips arranged on a huge wooden table in the background, as well they should in a boho-posh Primrose Hill kitchen. “I just want to point out that he is fictional. Colin Firth is not dead.” Continue reading...

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