Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones author addresses if Mark Darcy is based on Keir Starmer

The first film adaption Bridget Jones’s Diary, which starred Renee as the titular character, Colin Firth as Mark Darcy and High Grant as bad boy Hugh Grant, raked in an incredible £282m at cinemas.

Across the three films of the franchise, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby, took in nearly £757m of box office revenue.

Helen also won acclaim in 2014, as she was voted one of twenty writers on The Sunday Times list of Britain’s 500 Most Influential and was also featured on the London Evening Standard‘s 1,000 Most Influential Londoners list.

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