On her 43rd birthday, Bridget Jones is awoken at 6am by her mother, who reminds her that her biological clock is ticking and time to have children is running out.
Later that day, she attends the funeral of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), who is presumed dead after a plane crash. While there, she sees her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) with his new wife Camilla, who are also attending to pay their respects. When Mark looks over towards her as she gets up to speak at the eulogy, she pretends that another funeral guest is her partner, as she's embarrassed at being single while Mark has moved on. They bump into each other after the service, have a brief awkward chat during which Mark introduces Bridget and Camilla, and then go their separate ways.
Bridget now works as a top television producer and is close friends with the anchor of the news show she runs, Miranda (Sarah Solemani), who offers to take her out for her birthday. Bridget turns down her offer as she'd already made plans to celebrate with her old gang of three best friends, but is disappointed when they all cancel on her at the last minute due to family commitments. In the end, she spends the night of her birthday alone at home.
Deciding to embrace her single life, Bridget accepts Miranda's offer to go away together for a girls' weekend. They go to a music festival, where her friend challenges her to sleep with the first man she meets in order to finally get over Mark and break her celibacy. Inappropriately dressed for a music festival, Bridget falls head-first in a mud pool and is helped up by a random stranger. He is struck by Bridget and, as she walks away, introduces himself as Jack. After attending an Ed Sheeran concert late at night, a drunk Bridget crawls into a yurt she thinks belongs to her and Miranda, but actually belongs to Jack. Despite the surprise, Jack invites her to stay - the two have a one-night stand and in the morning, finding the bed empty, Bridget makes her escape. Jack returns having bought breakfast for both of them, and is disappointed to find that she has gone.
After returning home, Bridget goes to the christening of Jude's youngest child, where she is the godmother and Mark has been asked to be the godfather at the last minute. Bridget and Mark awkwardly pose for the christening photos - as Bridget walks away with the baby, both turn back to look at each other, suggesting they may still harbour romantic feelings for each other. After a few drinks help them overcome their initial awkwardness, while dancing Mark tells her that he and his wife are in the process of divorcing, and that Camilla was at Daniel's funeral not as his wife but just to offer him support.
Realising they are still in love with each other, Bridget and Mark kiss passionately and spend the night together. When Mark reveals he is travelling for work early the next day, Bridget is reminded that during all their years together, he had always put work before their relationship and so leaves in the morning before he wakes up, leaving behind a note telling him that reconnecting with him is too painful and lonely.
A few weeks later, Bridget finds that she is gaining weight despite dieting and exercising. Her best friend Shazzer suggests that the reason for the weight-gain might be that she is pregnant, especially when she realises that Bridget used old expired condoms when spending the night with Jack and Mark respectively. Believing expiry dates on condoms are fictitious, she is in shock at the possibility of being pregnant - taking a pregnancy test at work with Miranda's help, Bridget confirms that she is infact pregnant and decides that she wants to keep the baby despite being single, as it might be her last chance to have a child due to her age.
After a visit to the clinic of obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson), she realizes that it's not possible to work out who the father is based on dates and that she doesn't have a way of contacting Jack, the handsome stranger. However, by chance Miranda spots him on an advert on TV - the handsome stranger is infact Jack Qwant, a billionaire inventor of a dating site that uses algorithms as a rational base for match-making.
Miranda conspires with Bridget to have Jack invited as a guest on their news show, so that their make-up artist colleague can take hair samples to enable a DNA test to be carried out to confirm or eliminate Jack as the father, and so that Miranda can probe him on his sexual and personal history. Their new boss is impressed by their idea of having Jack Qwant as a guest - at the taping, the make-up artist is able to nab samples of Jack's hair and nails. Although Bridget tries to stay incognito, Jack catches a glimpse of her and recognizes her - he catches up with her after the show and confronts her on why she has humiliated him on his sexual history on live TV and on why she left without a word after their night together. She apologises and decides to tell him that she is pregnant and that he is the father, without mentioning Mark. Initially taken aback at the responsibility of having a child with a stranger he's only had a one-night-stand with, Jack then decides to throw himself into the role of being a father and supporting Bridget and the baby.
Unsure of her feelings for Jack and feeling that things are moving too quickly with him, Bridget decides to go forward and tell Mark the news too. However, Mark is so thrilled at the prospect of having a child with Bridget that she can't find the courage to tell him about Jack.
At the clinic, Dr. Rawlings is preparing to administer the DNA test - however, having seen the size of the needle, Bridge decides not to go ahead with the test while her child is still in the womb, as she is terrified by the small risk of miscarriage. She persuades Dr. Rawlings to go through the ante-natal appointments twice, once with Jack and another time with Mark, to keep up the pretense that each might be the father until the end of the pregnancy.
Bridget invites Jack to a work event, and is startled when Mark shows up as well. The two men immediately take a liking to each other, finding the other's professional accomplishments impressive. The three of them go out to dinner, where Bridget finally comes clean and tells them that she is unsure who the father is. Although disappointed, Jack takes the news well and tells Bridget that the child is the priority. Mark, however, is too upset and hurt and walks out of the restaurant.
At an ante-natal class, Jack arrives early and Bridget is gratified when Mark shows up as well. Jack and Mark are mistaken for a gay couple with Bridget as their surrogate, much to Mark's discomfort and Jack's amusement. Mark is also jealous at the easy rapport that Jack has developed with Bridget in a short time, and his warmth in taking care of her.
Bridget experiences cramps and goes to the hospital, taking Jack with her as she is unable to reach Mark. When at last Mark arrives, he is upset to see the two laughing together and embracing. Mark and Jack fight and Bridget sends them out of the room. Outside, Jack implies that he and Bridget had sex without condoms, making Mark realize that he is less likely to be the father. Hurt and disappointed by this, he abruptly leaves once again and ignores Bridget's calls.
Bridget continues to prepare for the arrival of her baby, now with only Jack by her side. They have a heart-to-heart, during which he confesses that life for him is lonely and asks her to move in with him. He asks Bridget if he is still in love with Mark, and she tells him that she has been in the past - he also asks her if she is in love with him, and she responds that she could learn to be. Bridget asks Jack if he would still want to move in together if Mark turned out to be the father of the baby - he tells her that in that case, he would need to re-evaluate their relationship as it would not feel right to him to be raising another man's child. Finally, he confesses to Bridget that the reason Mark has been absent is because Jack heavily implied that Mark was unlikely to be the father. Upset, Bridget rushes to talk to Mark, but sees his wife arriving at his house and, thinking that they might not be divorcing after all, decides to let him be.
At nine months of pregnancy, Bridget quits her job rather than being fired by her new boss for her numerous gaffes and unprofessional mishaps - notably inviting a guest onto the show with the sole intent of obtaining a sample of his DNA, live broadcasting bare arses during the launch event of a public news-gathering initiative and mixing up a guest with his chauffeur.
Unemployed, exhausted, and hungry, she goes out food-shopping but has her card eaten by a cashpoint machine after forgetting her PIN and locks herself out of the bank lobby, leaving her keys and her food inside. When no one buzzes her up to her building, she stands outside her apartment in the rain, feeling cold and miserable. Having had a change of heart, Mark suddenly arrives and breaks into the flat for her. After Bridget asks him about seeing him with his wife at his flat, he informs her that he and his wife are still going through with their divorce, and that she was only at the flat to pick up the last of her things. Just as they are about to kiss, Bridget's waters break. When his phone rings for work, Mark throws it out the window in a gesture to show Bridget that his priorities have changed, which although romantic, leaves them without a means to call for transport to the hospital. They enlist the help of a local restaurant waiter to get them to hospital, but a traffic jam due to a protest march forces them to walk instead. Overtaken by the contractions, Bridget cannot walk and Mark offers to carry her, but almost collapses with the effort. Jack arrives just in time and the two of them get Bridget to the hospital.
During labour, both Mark and Jack try to help Bridget through the pain, as she is too dilated to take any pain-reducing drugs. At one point, due to the pain she accidentally punches Jack in the nose. She reaches out to Mark for comfort, and he reassures her that she is strong and can get through labour and that he will love her no matter whether the child is his or not, while sustaining an agonizing bite to the wrist by Bridget due to the pain. While Jack and Mark wait outside to give Bridget some space, Jack apologizes to Mark for his behaviour.
Bridget gives birth to a healthy boy, and Bridget's friends and parents come to visit them in the delivery room. After Bridget's mum asks who the daddy is, Dr. Rawlings takes both men away to perform the DNA test. Having bonded during the months of Bridget's pregnancy, Mark and Jack genuinely wish each other luck.
A year later, Bridget is at church preparing to be married. At the altar, she is greeted by Jack who is holding the baby - he then steps aside to let Mark forward. After so many years, Bridget and Mark finally get married.
After the wedding, Mark and Jack, who are now friends, head to the reception together. While Jack is playing with the baby, Mark jokingly asks him whether he is traumatising his son - revealing that Mark is, after all, the father of Bridget's baby.
Immensely happy at being married to the man she loves and at being the mother of a beautiful healthy child, Bridget kisses the baby, who they've named William Jones Darcy, while sipping a glass of wine and following Mark and Jack to the reception.
A newspaper lying on a bench reveals that Daniel Cleaver has been found alive in the woods in the wreckage of the plane, suggesting there could be a fourth film in the Bridget Jones story.
Later that day, she attends the funeral of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), who is presumed dead after a plane crash. While there, she sees her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) with his new wife Camilla, who are also attending to pay their respects. When Mark looks over towards her as she gets up to speak at the eulogy, she pretends that another funeral guest is her partner, as she's embarrassed at being single while Mark has moved on. They bump into each other after the service, have a brief awkward chat during which Mark introduces Bridget and Camilla, and then go their separate ways.
Bridget now works as a top television producer and is close friends with the anchor of the news show she runs, Miranda (Sarah Solemani), who offers to take her out for her birthday. Bridget turns down her offer as she'd already made plans to celebrate with her old gang of three best friends, but is disappointed when they all cancel on her at the last minute due to family commitments. In the end, she spends the night of her birthday alone at home.
Deciding to embrace her single life, Bridget accepts Miranda's offer to go away together for a girls' weekend. They go to a music festival, where her friend challenges her to sleep with the first man she meets in order to finally get over Mark and break her celibacy. Inappropriately dressed for a music festival, Bridget falls head-first in a mud pool and is helped up by a random stranger. He is struck by Bridget and, as she walks away, introduces himself as Jack. After attending an Ed Sheeran concert late at night, a drunk Bridget crawls into a yurt she thinks belongs to her and Miranda, but actually belongs to Jack. Despite the surprise, Jack invites her to stay - the two have a one-night stand and in the morning, finding the bed empty, Bridget makes her escape. Jack returns having bought breakfast for both of them, and is disappointed to find that she has gone.
After returning home, Bridget goes to the christening of Jude's youngest child, where she is the godmother and Mark has been asked to be the godfather at the last minute. Bridget and Mark awkwardly pose for the christening photos - as Bridget walks away with the baby, both turn back to look at each other, suggesting they may still harbour romantic feelings for each other. After a few drinks help them overcome their initial awkwardness, while dancing Mark tells her that he and his wife are in the process of divorcing, and that Camilla was at Daniel's funeral not as his wife but just to offer him support.
Realising they are still in love with each other, Bridget and Mark kiss passionately and spend the night together. When Mark reveals he is travelling for work early the next day, Bridget is reminded that during all their years together, he had always put work before their relationship and so leaves in the morning before he wakes up, leaving behind a note telling him that reconnecting with him is too painful and lonely.
A few weeks later, Bridget finds that she is gaining weight despite dieting and exercising. Her best friend Shazzer suggests that the reason for the weight-gain might be that she is pregnant, especially when she realises that Bridget used old expired condoms when spending the night with Jack and Mark respectively. Believing expiry dates on condoms are fictitious, she is in shock at the possibility of being pregnant - taking a pregnancy test at work with Miranda's help, Bridget confirms that she is infact pregnant and decides that she wants to keep the baby despite being single, as it might be her last chance to have a child due to her age.
After a visit to the clinic of obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson), she realizes that it's not possible to work out who the father is based on dates and that she doesn't have a way of contacting Jack, the handsome stranger. However, by chance Miranda spots him on an advert on TV - the handsome stranger is infact Jack Qwant, a billionaire inventor of a dating site that uses algorithms as a rational base for match-making.
Miranda conspires with Bridget to have Jack invited as a guest on their news show, so that their make-up artist colleague can take hair samples to enable a DNA test to be carried out to confirm or eliminate Jack as the father, and so that Miranda can probe him on his sexual and personal history. Their new boss is impressed by their idea of having Jack Qwant as a guest - at the taping, the make-up artist is able to nab samples of Jack's hair and nails. Although Bridget tries to stay incognito, Jack catches a glimpse of her and recognizes her - he catches up with her after the show and confronts her on why she has humiliated him on his sexual history on live TV and on why she left without a word after their night together. She apologises and decides to tell him that she is pregnant and that he is the father, without mentioning Mark. Initially taken aback at the responsibility of having a child with a stranger he's only had a one-night-stand with, Jack then decides to throw himself into the role of being a father and supporting Bridget and the baby.
Unsure of her feelings for Jack and feeling that things are moving too quickly with him, Bridget decides to go forward and tell Mark the news too. However, Mark is so thrilled at the prospect of having a child with Bridget that she can't find the courage to tell him about Jack.
At the clinic, Dr. Rawlings is preparing to administer the DNA test - however, having seen the size of the needle, Bridge decides not to go ahead with the test while her child is still in the womb, as she is terrified by the small risk of miscarriage. She persuades Dr. Rawlings to go through the ante-natal appointments twice, once with Jack and another time with Mark, to keep up the pretense that each might be the father until the end of the pregnancy.
Bridget invites Jack to a work event, and is startled when Mark shows up as well. The two men immediately take a liking to each other, finding the other's professional accomplishments impressive. The three of them go out to dinner, where Bridget finally comes clean and tells them that she is unsure who the father is. Although disappointed, Jack takes the news well and tells Bridget that the child is the priority. Mark, however, is too upset and hurt and walks out of the restaurant.
At an ante-natal class, Jack arrives early and Bridget is gratified when Mark shows up as well. Jack and Mark are mistaken for a gay couple with Bridget as their surrogate, much to Mark's discomfort and Jack's amusement. Mark is also jealous at the easy rapport that Jack has developed with Bridget in a short time, and his warmth in taking care of her.
Bridget experiences cramps and goes to the hospital, taking Jack with her as she is unable to reach Mark. When at last Mark arrives, he is upset to see the two laughing together and embracing. Mark and Jack fight and Bridget sends them out of the room. Outside, Jack implies that he and Bridget had sex without condoms, making Mark realize that he is less likely to be the father. Hurt and disappointed by this, he abruptly leaves once again and ignores Bridget's calls.
Bridget continues to prepare for the arrival of her baby, now with only Jack by her side. They have a heart-to-heart, during which he confesses that life for him is lonely and asks her to move in with him. He asks Bridget if he is still in love with Mark, and she tells him that she has been in the past - he also asks her if she is in love with him, and she responds that she could learn to be. Bridget asks Jack if he would still want to move in together if Mark turned out to be the father of the baby - he tells her that in that case, he would need to re-evaluate their relationship as it would not feel right to him to be raising another man's child. Finally, he confesses to Bridget that the reason Mark has been absent is because Jack heavily implied that Mark was unlikely to be the father. Upset, Bridget rushes to talk to Mark, but sees his wife arriving at his house and, thinking that they might not be divorcing after all, decides to let him be.
At nine months of pregnancy, Bridget quits her job rather than being fired by her new boss for her numerous gaffes and unprofessional mishaps - notably inviting a guest onto the show with the sole intent of obtaining a sample of his DNA, live broadcasting bare arses during the launch event of a public news-gathering initiative and mixing up a guest with his chauffeur.
Unemployed, exhausted, and hungry, she goes out food-shopping but has her card eaten by a cashpoint machine after forgetting her PIN and locks herself out of the bank lobby, leaving her keys and her food inside. When no one buzzes her up to her building, she stands outside her apartment in the rain, feeling cold and miserable. Having had a change of heart, Mark suddenly arrives and breaks into the flat for her. After Bridget asks him about seeing him with his wife at his flat, he informs her that he and his wife are still going through with their divorce, and that she was only at the flat to pick up the last of her things. Just as they are about to kiss, Bridget's waters break. When his phone rings for work, Mark throws it out the window in a gesture to show Bridget that his priorities have changed, which although romantic, leaves them without a means to call for transport to the hospital. They enlist the help of a local restaurant waiter to get them to hospital, but a traffic jam due to a protest march forces them to walk instead. Overtaken by the contractions, Bridget cannot walk and Mark offers to carry her, but almost collapses with the effort. Jack arrives just in time and the two of them get Bridget to the hospital.
During labour, both Mark and Jack try to help Bridget through the pain, as she is too dilated to take any pain-reducing drugs. At one point, due to the pain she accidentally punches Jack in the nose. She reaches out to Mark for comfort, and he reassures her that she is strong and can get through labour and that he will love her no matter whether the child is his or not, while sustaining an agonizing bite to the wrist by Bridget due to the pain. While Jack and Mark wait outside to give Bridget some space, Jack apologizes to Mark for his behaviour.
Bridget gives birth to a healthy boy, and Bridget's friends and parents come to visit them in the delivery room. After Bridget's mum asks who the daddy is, Dr. Rawlings takes both men away to perform the DNA test. Having bonded during the months of Bridget's pregnancy, Mark and Jack genuinely wish each other luck.
A year later, Bridget is at church preparing to be married. At the altar, she is greeted by Jack who is holding the baby - he then steps aside to let Mark forward. After so many years, Bridget and Mark finally get married.
After the wedding, Mark and Jack, who are now friends, head to the reception together. While Jack is playing with the baby, Mark jokingly asks him whether he is traumatising his son - revealing that Mark is, after all, the father of Bridget's baby.
Immensely happy at being married to the man she loves and at being the mother of a beautiful healthy child, Bridget kisses the baby, who they've named William Jones Darcy, while sipping a glass of wine and following Mark and Jack to the reception.
A newspaper lying on a bench reveals that Daniel Cleaver has been found alive in the woods in the wreckage of the plane, suggesting there could be a fourth film in the Bridget Jones story.
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