Bridget Jones is ecstatic about her new relationship with Mark Darcy. However, her confidence is shattered when she meets Mark's assistant, the younger, beautiful, Rebecca Gillies. Working on morning TV show
Sit-Up Britain, Bridget is offered a position alongside her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Cleaver, in a new travel series. She declares Daniel is a "deceitful, sexist, disgusting specimen of humanity", but eventually agrees, despite her friends' misgivings. Bridget is delighted when Mark invites her to the Law Council dinner, believing he will propose afterwards. However, a series of mishaps make the evening a debacle. These culminate in the team trivia quiz: Bridget makes a critical error on a question about
Madonna, which Rebecca wins, leaving Bridget thoroughly deflated. Bridget and Mark argue and she stomps off. He goes to her apartment, apologises, and for the first time he says he loves her. He invites her on a ski-break in
Lech, Austria. On the slopes, Bridget learns Rebecca is also there with a few other colleagues. Bridget has a pregnancy scare, but after an argument over the upbringing and education of their hypothetical children, a pregnancy test proves negative. Returning home, Bridget and Mark attend a lunch with their parents, where Bridget is hurt by Mark's dismissal of their questions about the prospect of marriage. Overhearing a message from Rebecca on Mark's answering machine, Bridget dissects it with her friends, who advise her to confront him. When she does, he refuses to "dignify the question with an answer", so she breaks up with him. She travels to
Thailand with Shazza and Daniel to film
The Smooth Guide. Bridget and Daniel visit several exotic locations and, after she unintentionally consumes
psilocybin mushrooms, they flirtily reconnect, but her trust in him dissipates again when a Thai prostitute he ordered earlier appears, and she realises he has not changed. Shazza has a fling with the much younger Jed, who gives her a fertility snake bowl as a gift to take back to England, which ends up in Bridget's bag. When security dogs at the airport detect a large stash of cocaine inside it, Bridget is arrested and locked up in a prison cell with dozens of Thai women. Feeling low and scared, but glad at the friendliness of the inmates, she shares relationship advice with them and teaches them to sing and dance to Madonna's "
Like a Virgin". Mark comes to tell Bridget that her release is imminent. After confirming Jed as the true perpetrator and that she "spent the night" with Daniel, he declares her sex life does not interest him; Bridget does not correct his presumption, Mark departs, leaving her sure he no longer loves her. Back in London, Mark confronts Daniel for abandoning Bridget in Thailand, and they fight in a fountain. Daniel swears off her for good and says, "If you're so obsessed with Bridget Jones, why don't you just marry her?" Bridget arrives at
Heathrow Airport as an international human rights celebrity, greeted by her parents, who have been busy planning their
vow renewal ceremony. At home, Bridget is surprised when her friends tell her that Mark personally tracked down the drug trafficker Jed, secured his custody and extradition, and forced him to admit her innocence. Hopeful that Mark still loves her, Bridget rushes to his house. Finding Rebecca there, she assumes she is romantically involved with him, but Rebecca confesses her feelings are for Bridget and kisses her; though flattered, she politely turns her down. Bridget confronts Mark at his legal chambers, asking him to give her another chance. He proposes and she accepts. When Bridget's parents renew their vows, she
catches the bouquet. ==Cast==