Renee Zellweger was stunned when she first visited Britain, because she always presumed it was like the US. Although the two nations share the English language, the Texan star insists culturally they were nothing alike when she first arrived.

She says, “I didn’t realise how different the culture was until I went there for the first time to do Bridget Jones. We don’t speak the same language at all. We use words in a different way and culturally the English are very different. My friends might call me honest, but in England I felt completely inappropriate and gross… just grotesque a lot of the time. A loud-mouthed Texas girl.”