By CLAUDIA JOSEPH

Published: 22:22 GMT, 15 February 2025 | Updated: 22:28 GMT, 15 February 2025

It’s one of the most memorable scenes in the latest Bridget Jones film… and not just because it’s an obvious throwback to the moment that made Colin Firth such a heart-throb three decades ago.

In the new romcom, the title character’s toyboy lover Roxster, as played by Leo Woodall, dives into a swimming pool fully clothed to save a dog, emerging with his white shirt clinging to his gym-honed torso.

It’s a scene designed to get fans lusting, just as they did when Firth, as Mr Darcy, emerged from a lake in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride And Prejudice.

But it’s not just 28-year-old Woodall’s body that viewers are left longing after – but also the shirt off his back.

The £135 seersucker shirt, from PS by Paul Smith, has already sold out – just four days after Bridget Jones: About The Boy hit cinemas.

Director Michael Morris said that the pool scene, filmed last summer, had taken two days – and lots of test shots – to get right, while conceding that the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice was ‘a big inspiration’. 

He added: ‘Molly Emma Rowe, our costume designer, and I worked on a look for that shirt he’s wearing, which would cling exactly the right way.

‘Just to allow for that moment of him rising out [of the water] and taking and peeling it off was really important.’ 

In the new romcom, the title character’s toyboy lover Roxster, as played by Leo Woodall (right) , dives into a swimming pool fully clothed to save a dog, emerging with his white shirt clinging to his gym-honed torso

But it's not just 28-year-old Woodall's body that viewers are left longing after ¿ but also the shirt off his back

But it’s not just 28-year-old Woodall’s body that viewers are left longing after – but also the shirt off his back

The £135 seersucker shirt (pictured), from PS by Paul Smith, has already sold out ¿ just four days after Bridget Jones: About The Boy hit cinemas

The £135 seersucker shirt (pictured), from PS by Paul Smith, has already sold out – just four days after Bridget Jones: About The Boy hit cinemas

Despite the shirt’s £135 price tag, Rowe insisted he wanted Roxster to dress in everyday clothes as ‘he doesn’t have the kind of disposable income that many of our other characters do’.

Plus ‘he doesn’t think about dressing, he’s far too busy thinking about garbage, recycling and the planet’.

It is, of course, no coincidence that Firth, now 64, went on from starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the Austen adaptation, to Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones films – although he is seen only in flashback in the latest instalment as his character was killed off. 

The Irish linen top he wore in 1995 – created by designer Dinah Collin from period costume specialist Cosprop – was also sought-after, and when the original went under the hammer last year, it sold for £26,000, twice its initial estimate.

So if you want your own PS shirt as Woodall wore, you’d better start saving – just in case the real thing ever comes up for auction.

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Leo Woodall’s clingy £135 shirt that featured in racy scene from latest Bridget Jones film sells out just four days after long-awaited sequel’s release

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