{"id":576423,"date":"2025-11-17T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576423\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:47:15","slug":"bridget-jones-statue-shes-cuter-than-me-says-renee-zellweger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576423\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Jones statue: ‘She’s cuter than me,’ says Ren\u00e9e Zellweger"},"content":{"rendered":"

When asked about the possibility of a new chapter in Bridget Jones’ story, Fielding said: “Never say never. Stories come to you as a writer. So if a story came to me that I thought was true and interesting and new then I would write it.”<\/p>\n

Some think the floundering and flawed heroine, who’s fixated with her weight and relationship status, is not the best role model.<\/p>\n

And Fielding herself has previously admitted some parts of the story have not aged well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Bridget Jones’s Diary couldn’t be written now, set now, because all those men in the office would be sacked,” she said last year. “It was a really different time.”<\/p>\n

But speaking on Monday, she said she hoped the wider message of the book would continue to chime for readers.<\/p>\n

“I think to have the comfort of seeing a character that you can relate to, because they are real and human and emotionally honest, it’s like having the friend you can be honest with,” she said.<\/p>\n

The statue is the first to celebrate a rom com on Leicester Square’s Scenes in the Square trail.<\/p>\n

The Scenes in the Square trail originally launched in 2020 with the introduction of eight sculptures featuring Laurel and Hardy, Mary Poppins, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Don Lockwood, Paddington Bear, Mr Bean and Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

Since then, statues of Harry Potter, the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Indiana Jones have been added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When asked about the possibility of a new chapter in Bridget Jones’ story, Fielding said: “Never say never.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-576423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115565825023451406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}