The character of perpetual singleton Bridget Jones was created by Helen Fielding in a column for The Independent.
The first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has been released, confirming the death of Colin Firth’s character Mark Darcy.
The first film adaptation, Bridget Jones’s Diary, was released in 2001, with sequels Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby following in 2004 and 2016.
The fourth film – co-written by Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding, with contributions by Abi Morgan and Dan Mazer – is based on Fielding’s own 2013 novel of the same name.