RENÉE ZELLWEGER NEWS - October 2005

Firth says Bridget Jones 3 depends on Fielding
news.yahoo.com
October 22, 2005

Movie hunk Colin Firth will only do a third Bridget Jones movie if author Helen Fielding can come up with a drastically different storyline.

Firth, who stars as Renee Zellweger's love interest in the films, is convinced that Bridget Jones 3 could only be a box office smash if it contained radically new ideas and characterisations.

The 45-year-old actor says, "I wouldn't want to do a third Bridget Jones film that just went over the same ground.

"However if it was about a sad, unhealthy bloated Darcy (Firth's role), and Cleaver (Hugh Grant's character) as a pathetic ageing Don Juan with a fake tan and Bridget being even more neurotic, it might be good."

Renee Zellweger serious about adoption
monstersandcritics.com
October 11, 2005

Renee Zellweger has revealed she wants to adopt an orphaned baby, just days after her ex Jack White announced he is expecting his first child.

The Hollywood actress is said to be desperate to have children but, since splitting from husband Kenny Chesney last month, has been left with little hope.

So the 'Bridget Jones' actress has reportedly asked advice from Angelina Jolie, who has an adopted Cambodian tot Maddox, four, and Ethiopian baby Zahara.

The pair are reportedly planning a trip to Ethiopia where there are five million orphans.

A source at the country's state-run adoption agency said: "Renee still has to meet the same ten conditions as everybody else.

"The main two are that she's financially secure and law-abiding."

The news of Jack White's impending fatherhood came less than a month after Renee's marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney ended.

Renée and Kenny shocked fans when they announced they had wed on May 9 in a sunset ceremony in the Virgin Islands.

But just four months later their marriage was annulled, with the 'Bridget Jones' star citing 'fraud' as the reason for their split.

The White Stripes frontman and British model Karen Elson made announced the pregnancy to their family last weekend, in Michigan.

White secretly wed Elson in a canoe on the Amazon in June, just four months after he split from Renée.

Renée Zellweger Sets the Record Straight
ivillage.com
October 6, 2005

Yesterday, the purdy Texan paid a surprise visit to the offices of the New York Post, phoning the editors of Page Six and asking them to meet her in the lobby. The editors thought it was a prank, but agreed, hoping for some amusement when they came face-to-face with "Renée." But when they got to the lobby, a very casually dressed Renée was standing there -- and she wasn't happy.

"I just wanted to tell you that story was hurtful about me being with another man," she told them. "It wasn't true, and it made me look slutty." The actress, who filed for an annulment of her marriage to Kenny Chesney last month, was referring to their story on Monday that she was planning a trip to Ireland to see "her new beau, Irish singer Damien Rice." Renée told them that she and Damien are merely old friends. And, for the record, she isn't dating the guy that she went to the Red Sox game with either.

Renée Zellweger Re-teams with Tom Cruise
people.aol.com
October 2, 2005

Renée Zellweger's work schedule is filling up. With the actress signed up for a biopic about Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter, now comes word that the Cold Mountain Oscar winner is also set to work for her Jerry Maguire costar, Tom Cruise.

Zellweger has signed with Paramount Pictures to star in The Eye, a remake of a 2002 Thai thriller of the same name in which a blind heroine receives a cornea transplant that even allows her to see ghosts – not all of them friendly. Cruise is producing the remake with his film-company partner Paula Wagner, reports Variety.

The new version is being is envisioned as a psychological horror film. No start date has been announced.

In March, orts. Ewan McGregor, who teamed onscreen with Zellweger for the comedy Down With Love, is inZellweger begins playing Victorian author Potter for Babe director Chris Noonan, Variety also rep talks to costar. The actress will serve as the film's executive producer.

As for Zellweger, 36, after being married for four months to Chesney, 37, she filed for an annulment two weeks ago, citing "fraud" as the reason behind the split. In a statement, Zellweger said, "the term 'fraud' as listed in the documentation is simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character." Chesney also issued a statement, saying: "This is an incredibly sad time ... I just hope everyone can respect the privacy that I know Renée has already asked for."

He later told Country Weekly magazine that his busy professional schedule contributed to the marriage's demise. "I had the biggest tour I've ever done, I had a record to finish that was real important to me, and, of course, I had something new in my personal life and I was trying to do that, too," he said. "It really ended up being too much. At some point, I just got exhausted."