Here’s vvv good news for the world’s favourite singleton Bridget Jones…
Despite her hundreds of diary entries about being unable to find love, The Mail on Sunday can reveal she will have three suitors desperate to settle down with her in her fourth film, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Renee Zellweger, 55, has flown into London and will begin filming as Bridget within the next ten days.
She will be in a love tangle with Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver, a much younger man named Rockstar, played by One Day heartthrob Leo Woodall, and Love Actually star Chiwetel Ejiofor’s character, PE teacher Mr Walker.
Bridget, now a mother of two, will become smitten with Mr Walker who teaches at her son’s school.
A film source said: “Never before has Bridget had so many choices of men.
It is going to be brilliant, all three are very different.
“Chiwetel, as the teacher, is the more secure and safe one and of the three certainly the best choice but then you have the hunky Rockstar who Bridget meets on social media.
“He is much, much younger than her but she adores him, though their age gap makes things difficult.
“But will Bridget be able to give up the temptation of Daniel Cleaver, who has been in and out of her life since she was in her 20s?” Bridget finds herself a widow after human rights lawyer Mark Darcy – played in the first three films by Colin Firth – dies while trying to save a client abroad.
Firth will appear in the new film in flashbacks, as his character dies before the storyline starts.
The Mail on Sunday can also reveal that Bridget will give up her famous bachelorette pad in London’s Borough Market in favour of a family home in leafy Hampstead, north London.
There, she ditches her calamitous job with a TV company to struggle on the school run.
Comical scenes will show her scrambling to keep up with what other mums in the playground are wearing, as her scattier existence contrasts with theirs.
Bridget will also take a trip to the seaside in what insiders promise will be a “hilarious and relatable” part of the movie.
One said: “Bridget’s fans have grown up with her and this is for them – they will get it. “It’s about seeing Bridget come of age but what we all really want to know is who she will end up with.
Will it be Daniel, Rockstar or Mr Walker?” The Mail on Sunday revealed earlier this year that Bridget was making a return, 23 years after the release of the first film.
Mad About the Boy is expected to be out on Valentine’s Day next year.
It will again co-star Emma Thompson as Dr Rawlings, who delivered Bridget’s child in the third movie, Bridget Jones’s Baby.