For weeks followers have been delighted to identify Renee Zellweger filming for the most recent Bridget Jones instalment strolling across the leafy suburbs of North London.
However the newest location might come as a shock to some as filming is going down on the Christ Church Major – the college in Hampstead that was falsely accused of working a satanic paedophile ring.
Within the fourth Bridget Jones movie, Mad Concerning the Boy, the 55-year-old Ms Zellweger’s character has two younger youngsters Billy and Mabel with the late Mark Darcy, performed by Colin Firth.
She is bringing them up alone and has enrolled them within the native major faculty, which is given a fictional identify for filming functions.
For weeks followers have been delighted to identify Renee Zellweger filming for the most recent Bridget Jones instalment strolling across the leafy suburbs of North London
Within the fourth Bridget Jones movie, Mad Concerning the Boy, the 55-year-old Ms Zellweger’s character has two younger youngsters Billy and Mabel with the late Mark Darcy, performed by Colin Firth
Te newest location might come as a shock to some as filming is going down on the Christ Church Major – a faculty that was falsely accused of working a satanic paedophile ring
But it surely’s additionally unclear whether or not producers had been conscious of the college’s previous earlier than setting the fictional North London faculty on its grounds.
Christ Church Major was lately the topic of a Channel 4 documentary, Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, which shook up the quiet suburban neighbourhood in 2014.
Two sibling pupils on the faculty alleged {that a} Devil-worshipping paedophile ring of about, ‘175 dad and mom, lecturers and spiritual leaders’ had been abusing youngsters within the space.
Police discovered no proof of such accusations however the alleged abusers had been subjected to harassment, loss of life threats and on-line abuse that continued till at the least 2022.
It later transpired that the 2 youngsters had made the allegations after they had been threatened and abused into doing so by their mom, Ella Draper, and her associate Abraham Christie.
And now filming for the most recent Bridget Jones is going down on the faculty which was lately rated ‘distinctive in each method’ by Ofsted.
Elsewhere in Hampstead, Ms Zellweger’s alter-ego was noticed caught up a tree on the heath and was helped out by her toyboy love curiosity within the movie, Rockstar, performed by Leo Woodall.
Renée Zellweger noticed filming in London for the brand new Bridget Jones movie Mad About The Boy
Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones, The Edge Of Purpose, 2004
The 27-year-old One Day heartthrob donned a branded inexperienced T-shirt and matching trousers of a parking attendant for the situation filming.
He was additionally filmed in dialog with one among Bridget’s youngsters.
One onlooker mentioned: ‘Leo and Renee appeared like they had been having a good time. There have been numerous giggles, they appeared to get on very well.’