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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Leo Woodall to join Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant for Bridget Jones 4

Zellweger and Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Zellweger and Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Photograph: Working Title/Allstar

Following months of speculation, the studio behind Bridget Jones has confirmed their heroine will return for a fourth big screen outing, adapted from Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel Mad About the Boy.

Hugh Grant is set to reprise his role as the appallingly dashing Daniel Cleaver, having sat out the previous instalment, 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby. That movie charted Bridget’s unexpected pregnancy, which coincided with a love triangle as veteran on-off boyfriend Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and a new suitor played by Patrick Dempsey vied for her affections.

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