Kelly Brook was born Kelly Ann Parsons on November 23, 1979 and is a British model, television presenter, and movie and TV actress.


Kelly Brook after leaving school in Rochester, Kelly Brook studied at the Italia Conte stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model. Kelly Brook's early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the new "Bravissimo" company that specializes in bras and lingerie for full-figured women, and for Foster's beer. Kelly Brook is 5'8" tall, and her figure is very well suited for Bravissimo. Kelly Brook's figure caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began featuring her as a page 3 girl. Kelly Brook's picture soon began appearing in other lad mags such as FHM (and repeatedly landing in its list of the "100 Sexiest Women of the Year") and Loaded.
Kelly Brook topped the 2005 FHM list, which was said to have polled 15 million people. Kelly Brook has also done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery modeling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modeling. Kelly Brook is currently engaged to actor Billy Zane and, for seven years, dated actor Jason Statham.


By 1997, still barely 18, Kelly Brook started getting roles presenting youth television programmes on MTV, Granada and Trouble TV.


Kelly Brook's big break into mainstream presenting came in January 1999 when she was chosen to replace Denise van Outen as the female half of The Big Breakfast presenting team, alongside Johnny Vaughan. Kelly Brook remained for half a year and then parted company with the show in July 1999 under unclear circumstances. Initial reports suggested that she had resigned, but later it was suggested that in fact Brook had been sacked, and only learned about it while vacationing. In either case, most television reviewers said that Kelly Brook was too inexperienced for the role, and cited a leaked memo from the production staff to the show's writers, recommending that they avoid giving her "difficult words" in her scripts. Johnny Vaughan, in an interview with Heat, condemned these attacks as inaccurate and vindictive, especially towards a young presenter. Kelly Brook appeared presenting again on national TV in 2005 in "Celebrity Love Island", with Irish comedian Patrick Kielty, and her hosting abilities were slated once again by TV critics.

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