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Kelly Brook (born
Kelly Ann Parsons on
23 November 1979) is an
English model,
actress, and occasional
swimwear designer and television presenter.
Biography
After leaving school in
Rochester, Brook studied at the
Italia Conti stage school in
London for three years before becoming a professional model. Kelly attended The Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester, Kent.
Model
Brook's modeling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, her early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the new "Bravissimo" company that specializes in bras and lingerie for big-breasted women, and for Foster's beer. Brook is 5 feet, 8 inches (172.7 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure caught the eye of the editorial team of the
Daily Star tabloid, which began featuring her as a
Page Three girl.
She then appeared in a
Pulp video
Help the Aged with
Huck Whitney of the cult band
The Flaming Stars, in a slow dance sequence.
Brook's picture soon began appearing in other
lad mags such as
FHM (repeatedly landing in its list of the "100 Sexiest Women of the Year") and
Loaded. She topped the '
FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005' list, which was said to have polled 15 million people. In a poll over 5,000 women in April 2005 for
Grazia magazine she was considered to have the best British female body. She ranked 5th at 'FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006' list.
Brook has also done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery modeling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modeling. Some modeling work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of specially-commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook's bust.
In 2005, Brook posed for a ten-page, partially-nude black-and-white photo spread with the photographer
David Bailey. The results were featured in the British design magazine
Arena, the November 2005 issue.
In 2006, she introduced a range of her self-designed swimwear and lingerie at the
New Look stores of the United Kingdom.
Also in 2006 she signed a contract, reported to be worth around £1m, to be the presenter of Unilever's
Lynx body spray, known as Axe in the US and on continental Europe. She has appeared on billboards, in newspapers, and on-line as part of an advertising campaign.
Presenter
In 1997, still barely 18, Brook started getting work presenting youth television programmes on
MTV,
Granada Television, and the
Trouble TV channel.
Brook had a breakthrough into mainstream hostessing in January of 1999 when she was chosen to replace
Denise van Outen as the female half of
The Big Breakfast hosting team, alongside
Johnny Vaughan. Brook's tenure wasn't a prolonged success. Some say she failed to recreate the on-screen "chemistry" that van Outen had achieved with Vaughan, while others commented she was perfect for the job, and that it was the time, in fact, for Vaughan to leave the show. Instead, she decided to leave the show in July, 1999.
She picked up roles presenting for MTV again. In 2005, she hosted the "reality" television programme
Celebrity Love Island for ITV.
Actress
Kelly Brook has appeared in minor roles in a string of movies including
Sorted and
Ripper. She played the girlfriend of
Clark Kent/
Superman's best friend
Lex Luthor in four episodes of Warner Brothers'
Smallville during the show's first season (2001 - 2002). She has also completed assignments as a movie actress in Canada and made a short appearance as Lyle's girlfriend in the 2003 movie
The Italian Job. In 2004 she played character Nikki Morris in the video game
Need for Speed Underground 2, alongside
Brooke Burke. Her first starring role was in
School for Seduction, a
2004 film.
In 2005 she appeared in the
Philippe Vidal film
House of 9, a thriller about nine seemingly unconnected strangers captured and locked in a house together. The people are forced to compete against one another, in order to survive.
She recently starred in a
Marple drama on
ITV. She caused a minor controversy over her most recent film
Survival Island (previously known as
Three), in which she co-starred with then fiancé
Billy Zane, when Brook and Zane requested her nude scenes be excised from the final cut, which the producers refused to do.
Theatrical work
In December 2000 she played the exotic dancer Anya in the play "Eye Contact" at the
Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, a role that gathered some tabloid publicity since the finale of the show involved her removing her upper garments (topless).
Strictly Come Dancing
In 2007 Brook participated in the celebrity dancing competition
Strictly Come Dancing on
BBC1, for which her professional ballroom dance partner was
Brendan Cole. During the TV series, her father Kenneth Parsons died from cancer, and although she initially decided to continue dancing, she soon withdrew from the competition.
Personal life
After ending a long term relationship with
Jason Statham, Brook met
American actor
Billy Zane while filming thriller
Three in Greece in 2004. Proposing to wed in Summer 2008 and having bought a farmhouse in Kent, after the death of her father in November 2007 Brook kept putting the date back, until the couple split in April 2008.
Filmography
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