Hugh Grant And Renée Zellweger’s Reunion Is Nostalgic Bridget Jones Bliss

Bridget Jones fans, who suffered a Hugh-Grant-free third movie, will be glad to see the Daniel Cleaver actor rightfully reunited with Renée Zellweger for the premiere of the fourth movie in the beloved franchise.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy will hit cinemas on 14 February (Valentine’s Day) this year, almost a decade and a half after the first movie’s 2001 release.

Earlier this week, the iconic pair appeared on the red carpet of the newest instalment’s premiere.

Hugh Grant, left, and Renee Zellweger pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening for the film 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy'
Hugh Grant, left, and Renee Zellweger pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening for the film ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’

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The Paris appearance may have been a little familiar to diehard Bridget Jones fans.

Hugh’s half-opened shirt (no tie, naturally) under a black jacket is reminiscent of his very first Bridget Jones premiere appearance, while Renée Zellweger’s one-shoulder Saint Laurent dress could well have been an homage to her also-black, also-peekaboo 2001 movie gown.

Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant at 2001's Bridget Jones Premiere
Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant at 2001’s Bridget Jones Premiere

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The 2025 movie will see Bridget navigate “life as a widow and single mom with the help of her family, friends, and former lover Daniel,” an official synopsis says.

“Back to work and on the apps, she’s pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son’s science teacher.”

Hugh Grant previously shared on The Graham Norton Show that the newest movie is “very, very sad,” but added it’s also “good and moving”.

He continued to share that despite there being “no obvious role” for his character, he was “crammed in” to the movie regardless.

All we can say is, thank the rom-com gods for that.

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This Renée Zellweger Oscars Wardrobe Malfunction Could Have Been Lifted From Bridget Jones

During the chat, Renée was shown a photo from the 2005 Oscars, a year after her first win, where she presented the award for Best Supporting Actor to Morgan Freeman.

Looking at a photo of her red carpet ensemble, the two-time Oscar winner revealed that her night at that year’s ceremony involved a comedy of errors that could have been lifted straight from a Bridget Jones movie.

“As we were leaving that night, a gentleman stepped on the train [of my dress], and I kept walking in the other direction, and it ripped it right off my dress, from right beneath my booty,” she recalled with a laugh.

Renée continued: “There were parties and things afterwards, but I needed to go home and do a little bit of a costume change.”

Unfortunately, when she got there, she realised she’d come to the Oscars without taking her house key with her, leaving her “climbing up the balcony to the second floor” so she could enter through a bathroom window – all while still wearing her ruined dress “with a hole under my booty”.

Read Renée Zellweger’s full British Vogue interview here.

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