Are age gap relationships always wrong? The fourth instalment in the Bridget Jones series sees the heroine date a much younger man. Commentators are divided on whether she should.
Bridget Jones movie is Valentine’s hit
Mind the gap: Leo Woodall (right) is Roxster, the much younger lover of Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger, left) in 'Mad About the Boy'. Woodall was four, when the first Bridget Jones film was released, in 2001. Glossary
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