Bridget Jones fans heartbroken after finding out the real reason Colin Firth’s character has been killed off in new film

BRIDGET Jones fans were near ecstatic erstwhile it was announced that Renee Zellweger would beryllium getting backmost into quality for a 4th movie. 

However, this joyousness rapidly turned to heartbreak for galore erstwhile the trailer revealed that Colin Firth’s quality Mark Darcy has been killed off successful Mad About The Boy.

The trailer shows Bridget navigating beingness arsenic a widower and battling motherhood unsocial - though she does look blessed astir Leo Woodall’s quality coming into her beingness – a handsome 29-year-old named Roxster.

Despite immoderate fans slamming the movie creators for “spoiling the movie” by sidesplitting disconnected the erstwhile film’s main heartthrob, others were speedy to marque a poignant observation.

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, 1 instrumentality said: “Can't beryllium huffy astatine the caller Bridget Jones crippled anymore bc one recovered retired that's what happened to the author.”

Bridget’s caller section is so adjacent to British writer Helen Fielding’s heart, arsenic her ex-partner and begetter of her 2 children, Kevin Curran, died of crab successful 2016.

This was the aforesaid twelvemonth that her adjacent person and Star Wars histrion Carrie Fisher died too.

Helen started to constitute the screenplay for Mad About the Boy during the pandemic erstwhile the feeling of nonaccomplishment was adjacent much poignant.

She wrote: “I wanted to amusement however you tin consciousness some a consciousness of humour and a consciousness of position – your friends, your community, your resilience tin get you done these things and you tin inactive laugh.”

Helen met Kevin, a writer and enforcement shaper connected The Simpsons, successful LA connected a publicity tour.

The brace started dating and Fielding moved from London to Los Angeles to unrecorded with him, and they went connected to person 2 children: Dashiell, calved successful February 2004, and Romy, calved successful July 2006.

Fielding's caller Bridget Jones's Diary started beingness arsenic a file successful the Independent newspaper. 

She was approached to constitute a file astir being a azygous pistillate successful London and, excessively embarrassed to constitute astir her ain experiences, Fielding created an anonymous quality to constitute under.

This quality was loved by readers, and Fielding wrote Bridget Jones's Diary connected the backmost of its popularity. The paperback changeable to the apical of the best-seller chart.

Fielding went connected to pen the remainder of the series of novels: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries.

She besides joined the screenwriting squad connected the associated movies, starring  Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. 

The archetypal film, released successful 2001, made much than £222million astatine the container office.

In a survey conducted by The Guardian, Bridget Jones’s Diary was named arsenic 1 of the 10 novels that champion defined the 20th century.