14 h. ago Minecraft Movie is biggest film of 2025 so far in UK and Ireland

The film pushed Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy into second place.

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40 h. ago ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ & ‘Paddington In Peru’ Drive Canal+ Content Revs Up 8% In First Quarter Since London Stock Exchange Listing; Share Price Remains Sticky

‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ & ‘Paddington In Peru’ Drive Canal+ Content Revs Up 8% In First Quarter Since London Stock Exchange Listing; Share Price Remains Sticky  Deadline

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1 week ago Which precursor to Bridget Jones would Helen Lederer take to a desert island?

Helen Lederer answers our burning questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold?

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2 w. ago Bridget Jones star Sally Phillips says she ‘failed’ to be a ‘serious’ actress

The 54-year-old said she once cried for ‘about 15 minutes’ at a casting director’s house after missing out on a serious part.

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3 w. ago Bridget Jones star Sally Phillips reveals why she screamed in Hugh Grant’s face on set of Notting Hill

‘That was the first time I met Hugh,’ actor said

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3 w. ago Hugh Grant slams Heathrow immigration officer over ‘insulting and creepy’ treatment of children

The Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary star said the incident happened on Friday (4 April) as he travelled through the airport with his wife and three children

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3 w. ago Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age

The recent Bridget Jones sequel, a big hit at the UK box office, celebrates the romance between its middle-aged star and her gen-Z lover, but from Babygirl to The Mother, how do women on screen with younger partners usually fare?At this admittedly early stage of 2025, with all the noisy blockbusters of summer still ahead of us, the UK’s box-office report tells a nostalgic story. The year’s highest-grossing new release, raking in more than double its nearest rival, Captain America, is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – a sequel in which its American distributors had so little confidence that they booted it straight to streaming. Brits who missed it in cinemas can finally access it on VOD this week. The film itself is something of a pleasant surprise too: a tender-hearted, flannel-cosy romcom – easily the best in the series since the first, 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary – now suffused with the gentle melancholy of middle age.Age, of course, is a critical concern of this instalment, whi...

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4 w. ago Squirming The One Show hosts forced to apologise as Sally Phillips swears TWICE live on air in chaotic BBC interview

The A-list actress, 54, is well known for her appearances in Bridget Jones, Smack the Pony, and Veep.

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