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For weeks fans have been delighted to spot Renee Zellweger filming for the latest Bridget Jones instalment walking around the leafy suburbs of North London.
But the latest location may come as a surprise to some as filming is taking place at the Christ Church Primary - the school in Hampstead that was falsely accused of running a satanic paedophile ring.
In the fourth Bridget Jones film, Mad About the Boy, the 55-year-old Ms Zellweger's character has two young children Billy and Mabel with the late Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth.
She is bringing them up alone and has enrolled them in the local primary school, which is given a fictional name for filming purposes.
For weeks fans have been delighted to spot Renee Zellweger filming for the latest Bridget Jones instalment walking around the leafy suburbs of North London
In the fourth Bridget Jones film, Mad About the Boy, the 55-year-old Ms Zellweger's character has two young children Billy and Mabel with the late Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth
Te latest location may come as a surprise to some as filming is taking place at the Christ Church Primary - a school that was falsely accused of running a satanic paedophile ring
But it's also unclear whether producers were aware of the school's somewhat jaded past before setting the fictional North London school on its grounds.
Christ Church Primary was recently the subject of a Channel 4 documentary, Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, which shook up the quiet suburban neighbourhood in 2014.
Two sibling pupils at the school alleged that a Satan-worshipping paedophile ring of about, '175 parents, teachers and religious leaders' had been abusing children in the area.
Police found no evidence of such accusations but the alleged abusers were subjected to harassment, death threats and online abuse that continued until at least 2022.
It later transpired that the two children had made the allegations after they were threatened and abused into doing so by their mother, Ella Draper, and her partner Abraham Christie.
And now filming for the latest Bridget Jones is taking place at the school which was recently rated 'exceptional in every way' by Ofsted.
Elsewhere in Hampstead, Ms Zellweger's alter-ego was spotted stuck up a tree on the heath and was helped out by her toyboy love interest in the film, Rockstar, played by Leo Woodall.
Renée Zellweger spotted filming in London for the new Bridget Jones film Mad About The Boy
Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones, The Edge Of Reason, 2004
The 27-year-old One Day heartthrob donned a branded green T-shirt and matching trousers of a parking attendant for the location filming.
He was also filmed in conversation with one of Bridget's children.
One onlooker said: 'Leo and Renee looked like they were having a great time. There were lots of giggles, they seemed to get on really well.'
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