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Renée Zellweger has just put her rustic Pomfret, Connecticut estate on the market. The actress originally acquired the “vacation retreat” back in 2004, paying $1.3 million. The 3,463-square-foot Federal-style Colonial main home, known as the ‘Cotton Tavern’, was built in 1770. Modern amenities have been added to the property, but the original country charm of the three-bedroom home remains, with Colonial-style windows, wood-burning fireplaces and exposed wood beam ceilings running throughout.

Other property highlights include a generous master bedroom with a “suite of closets,” library with dark-wood finishes and built-in bookcases, media room, country kitchen and a large screened-in sun porch. The backyard and its many acres include a wealth of lush foliage, rolling hills of grass fields and woodland areas.

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This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers: Bridget Jones is coming back to the big screen.

Renee Zellweger will reprise her role as the charmingly befuddled British publishing exec in the third installment of the franchise, Variety.com reports.

The script will likely be based on author Helen Fielding’s columns for British paper The Independent about Bridget trying to have a baby and her continuing search for love.

The first two movies, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2001, and “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” in 2004, were based on Fielding’s best-selling books of the same titles.

The film will be produced by Working Title and is expected to go into production at the end of next year. There is no writer or director as of yet.

And now that the films’ heroine is into her 40s, it remains to be seen whether Zellweger will have to put on even more weight than usual to literally flesh out the character.

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Renee Zellweger showed a great sense of humour yesterday as she spoofed her role in Bridget Jones by donning a fat suit during a bizarre awards ceremony .

The actress smiled and laughed while parading about in the bulky flesh-coloured outfit as she was honored as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals woman of the year in Harvard, Massachusetts.

The 39-year-old famously put on two stone to play the much loved character in the 2001 film based on Helen Fielding’s novel.

She looked to be having the time of her life as she danced with a number of drag queens who grabbed at the suit – which had a black Bridget-style bra sewn to its front.

Miss Zellweger then rode around Harvard Square in the back of a silver convertible to the delight of fans.

She waved to spectators who braved frigid temperatures and signed a few autographs, all the while capturing the event on her mobile phone camera.

Hasty Pudding is the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe. By tradition, many of its male members wear women’s clothes for the parade — one came dressed in a gold, sparkly dress.

Later she turned the teasing back on her hosts, calling the pudding pot she received ‘the nicest doorstop I’ve ever had.’

‘I have always had great faith that no matter the state of the union, that America’s future was sound so long as Harvard continued to deliver us her brightest and best,’ she said.

‘And after what I have experienced and witnessed today, I can tell you that I’m going to really have to re-think all that.’

Miss Zellweger won a supporting-actress Oscar for the 2003 film Cold Mountain.

James Franco will be honored as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year next week.

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On his latest album Lucky Old Sun, Kenny Chesney writes about the end of his four-month marriage to Renee Zellweger.

He tells Newsweek recovering from the split was “was horrible. It took a while. Years. It’s been since 2005.

“I was probably as emotionally and mentally exhausted as I’d ever been,” he goes on. “And that was due to a lot of things — having the foot on the gas pedal constantly, and my breakup with Renee Zellweger.”

So, he says, “I got in a plane and went down to the Virgin Islands. I was completely by myself.

“I didn’t want to be around anybody,” Chesney continues. “So the next thing you know, it’s me and a pen, and I sat down and wrote a lot of lines of this song, ‘Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be.’”

Asked if he was nervous writing about the Zellweger split, he tells Newsweek, “It’s the truth. It’s my life.

“I’ve been in a lot of states of mind in the last three years,” he says. “In that way, it’s a pretty honest record. I’ve let myself be more emotionally vulnerable in some of the lyrics. I think that was good therapy.”

He says he has “no idea” what the actress will think. “I don’t know. It’s unpredictable.”

Chesney tells Newsweek they still talk “every now and then. I don’t want to say this whole record is about her.”

Is he still heartbroken?

“Not at all,” says the singer, who adds that he is dating again. “I already wrote those songs. I’m on to something else.”

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RENÉE Zellweger’s biological clock may be ticking – but she’s not listening. “Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don’t think like that. I never have expectations like, ‘When I’m 19, I’m going to do this, and by the time I’ve hit 25, I’m going to do that,’ ” the Oscar-winning cutie , who turns 39 this month, tells The Times of London. “I just want to be independent and be able to take care of myself. Anything else is just gravy.”

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