IT’S been nearly two decades since Renee Zellweger first brought Bridget Jones crashing into our lives – bum first, down a fireman’s pole, wearing giant knickers.
And over the years the actress who played her in three hit films admits her own life has often resembled the disaster-prone singleton’s a bit too closely.
Renee, 51, has been just as unlucky in love, last year ending the latest in a long line of doomed relationships — including country singer Kenny Chesney, the man she was married to for just five months in 2005.
Speaking in a new TV programme celebrating the much-loved character, she says she is grateful for the films but less than thrilled with the obvious parallels in her private life.
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