The literary world was rocked — ROCKED — this weekend when author Helen Fielding released excerpts from her newest Bridget Jones novel Mad About the Boy to reveal that Mark Darcy — the best/creepiest Colin Firth homage to actually eventually be played by Colin Firth — is now dead. » 9/30/13 4:30pm 9/30/13 4:30pm

If you're anything like me, you've spent the last decade missing outrageous tart Bridget Jones something awful not caring about Bridget Jones like it's a full-time job. I mean, don't get me wrong, our gal Bridge accomplished some serious shit back in the day—it was refreshing, 20 years ago, to see the public embrace a… » 2/06/13 5:10pm 2/06/13 5:10pm

The world is about to get that much more unattainably beautiful now that Megan Fox is said to be expecting her first child with Brian Austin Green. Megan has been stepmom to Brian's 10-year-old son Kassius since they got married back in 2010, and the couple are said to be pretty excited about adding to their family.… » 3/28/12 9:00am 3/28/12 9:00am

• More on this in Midweek Madness: Life & Style is reporting that before she entered a treatment center, Demi Lovato had become a big fan of cocaine.
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• According to a study, two thirds of British women are totally bored with their lives. Perhaps more importantly, 7 out of 10 women are "fed up with being broke." » 6/15/10 5:40pm 6/15/10 5:40pm

• After roughly a year and a half of marriage, Heidi Montag has reportedly kicked Spencer Pratt (and, presumably, his crystals) to the curb:
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A few weekends ago in the Guardian, Professor Sarah Churchwell confronted the ghost of Bridget Jones and the persistent stereotype of the dismal singleton. » 5/04/10 3:40pm 5/04/10 3:40pm

In a poll of 2,000 women in their mid-20s, 78% said that the ideal age for marriage is 26, and having kids a year later. 10 years ago, the ideal age was in one's 30s. What the hell happened? » 4/13/10 6:30pm 4/13/10 6:30pm

Today Kira Cochrane of the Guardian » 9/30/08 10:40am 9/30/08 10:40am against David Willetts, the MP who said a was ruining the British family. She calls out Willetts as a flip-flopper; in 2002 he was pro-Bridget, calling her "a Tory at heart." Then she says, "women still earn 17% less for full-time work than men, and, of all groups, mothers face…

Lest you think that American social conservatives have a monopoly on obnoxious, regressive views of women, may we direct you to the comments of one British Member of Parliament, David Willetts? According to the Daily Mail » 9/29/08 1:20pm 9/29/08 1:20pm, Willetts recently told his countrymen that the British family is under threat from a 'Bridget…

Despite the prevailing stereotype that women live in a candy-colored fantasy world with unrealistic relationship expectations, a new book by "playboy" Carl Weisman says that over 30% of confirmed bachelors avoid marriage because they "won't settle for anything less than perfection," reports Reuters. Weisman's book, So… » 6/02/08 9:30am 6/02/08 9:30am

Apparently book and movie phenomenon Bridget Jones has "put Britain off chardonnay," reports the Independent. Best-selling wine writer Oz Clarke says: "Bridget Jones goes out on the pull, fails, goes back to her miserable bedsit, sits down, pours herself an enormous glass of chardonnay, sits there with mascara running… » 5/28/08 9:45am 5/28/08 9:45am

In the December issue of Vogue UK, British GQ features director Alex Bilmes tackles a ladymag staple: "Men's attitudes to women's attitudes to their weight," aka the article wherein a dude criticizes women as a gender for being so weight obsessed. Bilmes covers mostly familiar ground — men don't want women to be… » 11/09/07 11:30am 11/09/07 11:30am

What do you get if you cross Bridget Jones with the baby Jesus? » 6/16/06 11:12am 6/16/06 11:12am

I've never really known what to make of Cosmo's bedroom blog. It's written by someone called Jessica Hulett - online and in the mag - and is a 'fictional' account of someone called K's attempts to get laid. Or married. Whatever. There doesn't appear to be an awful lot of sex going on, and the current storyline is that: » 5/23/06 1:26pm 5/23/06 1:26pm