Is Mark Darcy … alive? Shocking behind-the-scenes footage from the set of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Colin Firth's character appears to have risen from the dead

Bridget Jones masters life as a widow in the book Crazy about the boy after Mr. Darcy is killed on a diplomatic mission – but will the upcoming film adaptation follow the same plot?

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Jesus, Elvis Presley and Colin Firth's Mark Darcy. The guest list for a particularly eclectic dinner party, yes, but also a trio of men with a penchant for resurrection – if recent snapshots behind the scenes of the latest Bridget Jones The film is all you can go by.

Readers of Helen Fielding’s novels were forced to put on their mourning clothes after the author Crazy about the boy that her journalist heroine's dashing husband had been blown up by a landmine while campaigning for the release of aid workers in war-torn Sudan. But according to reports from the Post on SundayColin Firth has been spotted on set in the Lake District for the upcoming adaptation of the book, which is set to hit cinemas on Valentine’s Day. Could the former Sit Up UK reporter suffers from some sort of acute nervous breakdown? Could the actor be playing a ghostly manifestation of the human rights lawyer's unfinished business, like a Borough Market Wuthering Heights? Or, hallelujah, amen, could it be that Mark Darcy really has returned from the dead?

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Firth was certainly not listed on the cast list, leading fans of the nation’s favourite diarist (and verbally incontinent bachelor) to believe that the film adaptation of Crazy about the boy would follow the plot of the novel. Now we have to wait until Bridget's fourth appearance to find out if we might witness a miracle on Bedale Street. “Colin was always going to be in the film,” a source told MailOnline“but it was supposed to remain a secret,” and when the actor is filmed stroking his co-star Renée Zellweger's cheek, the cat seems to be out of the bag.