Bridget Jones author claims she was repeatedly groped while working at BBC

Woman allegedly groped on flight from SFO claims American Airlines failed to stop ‘known sexual predator’ from striking again

A woman is suing American Airlines, claiming staff blamed her after she was groped on a redeye flight from San Francisco International Airport, and that the airline failed to stop a “known sexual predator” from abusing another woman later. Barbara Morgan, of Windsor, California, was sitting in the middle seat in economy class in April 2024 on a flight from SFO to Dallas-Fort Worth, her lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco U.S. District Court …

Bridget Jones author claims she was repeatedly groped while working at BBC

Helen Fielding joined the BBC in 1979 as a researcher (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage) The woman behind Bridget Jones has claimed she was groped repeatedly while working for the BBC. Helen Fielding, who penned the legendary 1996 novel Bridget Jones’s Diary and spawned a multimedia franchise, joined the BBC as a researcher in 1979. After leaving the broadcaster, she worked as a journalist, where the idea for the Bridget Jones character began as…