being bridget jones BBC2, 9pm

Date22 December 2020
Published date22 December 2020
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The icon first appeared in a newspaper column, detailing her rocky relationship with men, booze, fags and knicker elastic.

When Helen Fielding's creation hit the silver screen in 2001, Bridget became a cultural phenomenon.

Celebrating the legacy of Bridget, this film is a funny look back at the character, but also an exploration into the changing attitudes towards women.

Hugh Grant, who plays Bridget's love-rat fixation Daniel Cleaver, says: "He's what my mother's generation would have called 'not safe in taxis'."

Helen, showing us her own 1978 uni diary, the inspiration for Bridget...

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