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Patrick Dempsey All But Confirms Bridget Jones Role

Indeed, the 49-year-old Grey’s Anatomy star took to Instagram yesterday to confirm all rumours with a post of himself on set and the caption: “Nice to be working in England”. A unbelievable twosome of days rehearsing at Pinewood Studios. Renee and Colin are an absolute joy to work with! “I really like it here!” he captioned the pic.

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The new romcom Bridget Jones’s Baby is believed to focus around unlucky-in-love Bridget unexpectedly falling pregnant.

That’s Colin as in Firth, the English actor who appeared alongside Zellweger in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as beau Mark Darcy.

The movie will be directed by Sharon Maquire, who helmed the first film, which made $281 million and earned Zellweger an Oscar nomination.

Although he remained tight-lipped about his role in the film, speculation is rife that he may be a new love interest for the world’s most famous singleton.

Patrick’s last big-screen role was Transformers: Dark Of The Moon in 2011. In January Patrick’s estranged wife of 15 years, makeup artist Jillian Fink, filed for divorce.

It’s his second marriage, he Wednesday acting coach Rochelle Parker when he was 21 and she was 48, in 1987, they divorced in 1994 and she passed away past year.

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In April, Grey’s Anatomy fans were shocked when his adored character was killed off after being involved in a auto crash that left him brain dead.

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