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Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones author addresses if Mark Darcy is based on Keir Starmer
The BBC is now set to release Being Bridget, a documentary that celebrates 25 years of one of the most famous singletons to exist in modern literature.Helen loosely based Bridget Jones (played by Renee Zellwegger in the films) on herself as a young journalist working her way up the career ladder in London during her 30’s.At the time when she was working on the column and subsequent books, the author shared that many thought single women were “spinsters being left on the shelf”.However, it was quite the opposite as Helen had an active social life during her younger years and wanted to share that experience with readers.The first film adaption Bridget Jones’s Diary, which starred Renee as the titular character, Colin Firth as Mark Darcy and
