Tuesday, 13th April 2021 at 7:00 am
Bridget Jones’s Diary – the iconic British film based on Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name – turns 20 today, with the rom-com starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant having made its cinematic debut back in 2001.
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With this year marking such a big anniversary, I dove into the Bridget Jones Cinematic Universe (the BJCU if you will) and revisited its many, many characters for a
RadioTimes.com official ranking of all your Daniel Cleavers, your Unas, your Mr Fitzherberts and your Shazzers.
24. ‘Uncle’ Geoffrey
Played by: James Faulkner
The lecherous, bum-pinching Geoffrey lands himself at the bottom of our ranking, which should come as no surprise to anyone considering he’s arguably the film franchise’s biggest creep. Married to Una, the best friend of Bridget’s mum Pam, Geoffrey is described by Bridget as “someone who insists I call him uncle when he gropes my a**e” (ew) and generally exudes big perv energy in every scene he drunkenly dances into. He’s also responsible for Bridget turning up to her aunt’s garden party in full Playboy bunny attire, having “forgotten” to tell her about scrapping the Tarts and Vicars theme, and regularly interrogates her on the state of her dating life whilst clutching a champagne flute. If Bridget ever returns for a fourth outing, let’s hope Geoffrey has finally been excommunicated from the family’s social circle for his groping tendencies and that criminally unsettling moustache.