The fact that I had never watched the Bridget Jones movies before is a true abomination. You may be wondering what inspired a marathon of all three films, Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget ...

The year is 1995 and Helen Fielding, a then-unknown writer, has just published her first column for The Independent under the pseudonymous, Bridget Jones. Bridget is a 30-something woman in media ...

Not me. Not in my rom-coms. Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones: I liked her just as she was. But now Mark Darcy — WHO LIKES BRIDGET VERY MUCH JUST AS SHE IS — is dead. Have we not suffered enough?

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One winter, a neighbour, who himself, he didn’t have very much, found out I’d been playing outside wearing only a jumper. He put money through the letterbox in an envelope marked “for Bridget’s coat”.

It’s a daunting set of prospects. But just as the first Bridget Jones novel, published in 1996, captured the agonies of dating for many thirtysomething women in the Nineties, her predicament in ...