Bridget Jones is back where she belongs: on our screens and in our hearts. With "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," which debuted Friday on Peacock 24 years after the original rom-com introduced us to Renée Zellweger's Oscar-nominated performance as the lovingly bumbling heroine,

Leo Woodall, the 28-year-old Bridget Jones star, has defended the age gap romance featured in the forthcoming film, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, where he plays opposite Renée Zellweger, aged 55. Becoming a heartthrob with his role in the Netflix drama One Day last year, Leo is set to capture more hearts as Renée's much-younger onscreen beau.

For a perpetually frustrated single woman, Bridget Jones always had good taste in men. On the big screen 24 years ago, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” cemented Colin Firth’s sex appeal as human rights lawyer Mark Darcy and made us swoon for Hugh Grant all over again as roguish book publisher Daniel Cleaver.