{"id":576746,"date":"2025-11-17T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576746\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:11:20","slug":"new-statue-of-bridget-jones-in-londons-leicester-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576746\/","title":{"rendered":"New statue of Bridget Jones in London&#8217;s Leicester Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/movie-review-bridget-jones-renee-zellweger-9d6e220906b12d041cc9101ce738746a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridget Jones<\/a> has joined Harry Potter, Mary Poppins and Paddington as permanent residents of London\u2019s famed Leicester Square.<\/p>\n<p>A new bronze statue of the romantic comedy heroine was unveiled Monday to mark 25 years since the release of the first \u201cBridget Jones\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Ren\u00e9e Zellweger, who has played the titular character four times since the first \u201cBridget Jones\u2019 Diary\u201d was released on big screens in 2001, attended the unveiling along with author Helen Fielding, whose books inspired the films.<\/p>\n<p>The statue, which depicts Zellweger dressed in a mini skirt and clutching a diary and a pen, is the newest addition to the \u201cScenes in the Square\u201d trail in Leicester Square, the home of numerous international film premieres.<\/p>\n<p>The attraction, launched in 2020 to celebrate a century of cinema, also features statues of Mr. Bean, Bugs Bunny, Laurel and Hardy, Batman and Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridget Jones: Mad About The Boy,\u201d the fourth film in the franchise, was released earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Bridget Jones has joined Harry Potter, Mary Poppins and Paddington as permanent residents of London\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[62159,182776,748,393,4884,12249,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-576746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bridget-jones","9":"tag-bridget-jones-statue","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leicester-square","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115566628082003810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576746","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=576746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}