If Dr. McDreamy were Bridget Jones' new bad boy

Well, it looks like Patrick Dempsey has found his first big post-Grey's Anatomy role, and along with it, his next tortured onscreen romance.

McDreamy's reps have confirmed that he will join Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth in the upcoming Bridget Jones' Baby. The prevailing theory is that he'd replace the departing Hugh Grant, whose played Daniel Cleaver, her cad of an ex-boyfriend and co-worker, in the first two go-rounds.

Since it's been 11 years since the last movie, let's recap the plot: Bridget and Daniel were working together again on a morning show. Angry that Mark Darcy (Firth) seemed ambivalent about marriage, Bridget ran off to Thailand with the unreliable Daniel, who promptly screws her over twice, first by hiring a prostitute and then leaving her to rot when she gets arrested for having someone else's cocaine in her luggage. Mark came to her rescue and the two reunited.

The powers-that-be have not commented on whether Dempsey would take over the Daniel role or if a new part would be created for him. Which left us room to wonder:

What would happen if you up and dropped Dr. McDreamy into Bridget Jones' universe?  (You know, after reviving him, since he's dead and all.)

First up, he'd have to change his tagline, "It's a beautiful day to save lives."

Perhaps "It's a beautiful day to wreck a marriage" or "it's a beautiful day to screw over that girl who never quite got over me."

He'd have to learn to drive like a crazy person on the other side of the road

But with Dempsey being a proper petrolhead and all, we imagine he's embrace that challenge with gusto.

He'd have to go pretty far outside London to find a place to park his Airstream trailer and build a house out of candles

But then again, he'd have a long commute during which he could master driving on the left side of the road.

He'd have to find a new way to indulge his love of ferry boats

No worries here: Britain is an island, so there's no shortage of those.

And he'd need a new bar to pick up dark-and-twisty women

Eh, we're sure he'd find a pub his first night in town.



But all in all, the role does call for messing with women's heads and let's face it, McDreamy's got that on lockdown after a spending 11 years on on Grey's. Bring on Bridget!