Bridget Jones: FIRST LOOK at Renee Zellweger PLUS McDreamy new love Patrick Dempsey

The first image of Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones in the upcoming film

FIRST LOOK at Renee Zellwegger as Patrick Dempsey confirms he's set for a for a McSteamy love triangle in Bridget Jones's Baby with Colin Firth.

 

We finally get our first look at returning star Zellweger as Bridget Jones.

Time barely seems to have touched her, although she is holding a snazzy new red ipad, rather than her old traditional leather-bound hand-written diary.

The Hollywood beauty looks adorable in a cosy sweater  – as usual a far cry from her usual glamorous Hollywood image.

 

Meanwhile, Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey has finally answered rumours about his participation in the new film.

The 49-yeaar-old posted a picture on Instagram confirming that he is about to start filming in the UK.

"Nice to be working in England. Renee and Colin are an absolute joy to work with," he wrote.

 

Nice to be working in England. Renee and Colin are an absolute joy to work with! A good couple of days rehearsing at Pinewood Studios. I really like it here!

A photo posted by Patrick (@patrickdempsey) on Sep 23, 2015 at 3:30pm PDT

"A good couple of days rehearsing at Pinewood Studios. I really like it here."

The third film in the Bridget Jones series sees Zellweger's character entering her forties. When it was published, readers of Helen Fielding's third Bridget Jones book, Mad About The Boy, were shocked to discover that Mark Darcy had died.

And yet Colin Firth is reprising his role in the film. How?

 

I don't know if audiences will ever accept me as anyone except Derek on Grays Anatomy

Patrick Dempsey

 

Renee Zellweger and Patrick Dempsey will star in Bridget Jones' Baby

 

The new film is based on the authors newspaper columns and not the novel, sidestepping the heartbreaking death.

Firth caused a stir this week when he stepped out at London Fashion Week looking noticably gaunt.

Instead the title suggests that our hapless heroine is about to enter motherhood.

 

But who will be the father? The introduction of Dempsey promises yet another complicated love triangle for our Bridget.

 

Zellweger looked stunning at a Miu Miu fashion show earlier this year

 

Zellweger with Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in 2004

Dempsey shocked viewers of Grey's Anatomy earlier this year when his character, Dr David 'McDreamy' Shepherd, died after a terrible car crash.

The show made the actor a worldwide star and huge heartthrob. Fans were devastated.

Amid rumours of a terrible rift with the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, the 49-year-old simply declared that it was time for new challenges.

“I want to try something different,” he said at the time.

“But will I be allowed to do something different? Is Derek so identifiable that I can’t go on and be someone else?"

 

Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth are joined by Patrick Dempsey in the latest film

"That will be the challenge. To see if people embrace me as someone else,” he added.

Dempsey will be filling the gap in Bridget Jones' life left by the absence of Hugh Grant's Daniel Cleaver.

The suave love rat won't be in the third film, but we're sure that Dempsey will cause plenty of problems for poor Bridget's confused heart.

Filming starts in October, directed by Sharon Maguire, who helmed the original Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001.

Helen Fielding has written the screenplay along with fellow author David Nicholls.