CULTURE

By Ava Gilchrist

13 November 2024

Renée Zellweger Returns As Our Favourite Diarist In The Trailer For ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’

Resolution #1: Watch this film as soon as it's released on Valentine’s Day.

Bridget-Jones-Diary — Bridget Jones first debuted in 2001. Now, twenty years later, the iconic character returns for a final chapter with *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,* launching on Peacock in 2025.

We’ve followed Bridget Jones along for two decades in her pursuit to find “a nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, sexaholics, commitment-phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional f******, or perverts”, as she candidly told us in the original 2001 romantic comedy. Now, the bumbling yet altogether beloved Brit returns to the screen just in time for Valentine’s Day with the highly-anticipated fourth instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

As always, Renée Zellweger stars as the perennially single titular lead, with the diarist once again unlucky in love following the death of her very own Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth). After becoming a single mother raising two children alone in London, Bridget’s dating life ceases to exist. (As Hugh Grant’s Daniel tells her: “You’re effectively a nun. A very, very naughty nun”.)

While she tries her hand at Tinder, Bridget eventually finds herself enamoured with two very unlikely and extremely different suitors. There’s her kids’ school teacher Mr. Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), which might prove to complicate things in the classroom, and the twenty-something “tree adonis” Roxster, played by the bona fide internet boyfriend Leo Woodall (The White Lotus, One Day.) At the encouragement of her friends, Bridget tries her best to “get laid” while navigating newfound relationships, grief and the perils of modern romance.

The film also sees Grant reprise his role as Bridget’s former boss and lover, though it’s unlikely we’ll be privy to iconic chat room exchanges like their repartee over an “off sick” mini skirt. Australia’s Isla Fisher also makes an appearance.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy will skip a theatrical release and launch straight onto streaming platform Peacock on February 14, 2025. The perfect Valentine’s Day treat, if we say so ourselves. Pencil in a note in your diary, pour yourself a glass of wine and watch the trailer, ahead.