" I worked 15-hour days, filming many of the scenes where you see Bridget from behind or where you don't see her face. It's my body that gets molested by Alsatians, me who falls off the treadmill and me who stumbles when Bridget has too much vodka. "

"I had to really study Renee... we spent a lot of time together, sitting in our identical Bridget pyjamas, eating doughnuts and chatting while waiting to film..."

"They used my hands when Bridget wrote her diary. On the first day of filming had to have my hair cut the same length as hers so they could shoot me from behind, sitting in Bridget's white towelling dressing gown with wet hair and filling it in."

"Being a double is hard work and a real challenge. Not only did I have to watch and copy Renee's mannerisms... but I had to catch the mood being acted."

"'I never set out to be a body double' says Melinda, who bears more than a passing resemblance to Renee Zellweger in the flesh. 'Basically my agent put me up for the role, saying I had the perfect English-rose skin to be Bridget.' Both the director, Sharon Maguire (Fielding's friend - the real-life Shazzer from the book) and Renee, who Melinda met at the audition, obviously agreed. 'I had to write the words "alcohol units" exactly as the movie's art department had decided Bridget's handwriting should be'..."

"There is one scene with Hugh (Grant) that particularly stands out in her mind. They had to drive the length of a country lane while being filmed by a helicopter."

"If you think Melinda Whiting looks familiar then it's not surprising - because the chances are you've seen her before."

"Her role as Bridget Jones's body double, played by American Renee Zellweger follows a career working alongside some of the biggest names in showbiz. In the past she has danced and acted with Robbie Williams, Take That, Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke."