Monday, September 30, 2013

Mark Darcy is dead! Bridget Jones is left a struggling single mum in long-awaited sequel

By Ted Thornhill


Spoiler alert for Bridget Jones fans and tissues at the ready - Mark Darcy is dead and the world's most famous singleton has become a widow.

The shock revelation came as extracts of writer Helen Fielding's latest Bridget Jones's Diary, Mad About The Boy, were published in the Sunday Times Magazine.


Fifteen years after the last novel in the saga, it turns out unlucky-in-love Bridget married Darcy and gave him two children - only for Fielding to kill the awkward yet successful barrister off.

True love: Renee Zellweger pictured as Bridget Jones, with Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, in a scene from the 2004 film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, based on the novel by Helen Fielding
True love: Renee Zellweger pictured as Bridget Jones, with Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, in a scene from the 2004 film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, based on the novel by Helen Fielding

Heralding the arrival of 'chick lit', Bridget Jones's Diary started life as a newspaper column in 1995.

Two best-selling novels, with their corresponding Hollywood blockbuster film adaptations featuring Renee Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth as Darcy, followed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2437165/Bridget-Jones-single-Author-Helen-Fielding-reveals-killed-Mark-Darcy.html#ixzz2gJ1rea9a 

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