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'Extremely funny, but very sad': Renee Zellweger finds new love in 'Bridget Jones 4'

LONDON, United Kingdom — Hollywood star Renee Zellweger marked the return of Bridget Jones — the Chardonnay-swigging, calorie-counting hapless 1990s singleton — at the world premiere of the franchise's "Mad About the Boy."

Taking place in London, scene of all Bridget's greatest catastrophes, the red carpet showing was also attended by rising star Leo Woodall, 28, who plays her latest and much younger love interest.

Texan actor Zellweger famously piled on a few pounds and successfully cultivated a British accent to star as Bridget alongside Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in the original 2001 smash hit "Bridget Jones's Diary."

In the latest installment, Bridget — now a 51-year-old widow and single parent — navigates new levels of embarrassment as she grapples with texts, tweets, dating apps and Botox after the death of her husband, Mark Darcy.

The fourth and latest installment comes nearly a decade after the previous one — "Bridget Jones's Baby."

In that movie, Bridget ended up pregnant and unsure who the father was after flings with a handsome American internet billionaire, played by Patrick Dempsey, and ex Mark Darcy, played by Firth, whom she eventually marries.

Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding previously said she wrote Mark Darcy, Daniel's one-time love rival for Bridget's affections, out of the series because she did not want Bridget to become smug and married.

Yet in "Mad About the Boy," Hugh Grant reprises his role as Daniel Cleaver, Bridget's former boss and boyfriend, while Emma Thompson also returns as her gynecologist.

Grant has described the film as "extremely funny, but very sad."

The "Love Actually" star, 64, told the BBC last year there had been "no obvious role" for him in the film.

But producers had "crammed" him in and Grant had managed to "make up a good interim story for him" nonetheless.

The London premiere also expected the attendance of Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays another of Jones's love interests, and director Michael Morris.

Jones began life in a newspaper column by Fielding in 1995 before she turned it into a series of best-selling books.

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" is due to be released via

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