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?

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”.