ScoopCelebrity: Kelly Brook in Bikini
- Born Kelly Ann Parsons to cook Sandra and scaffolder Ken in Rochester, Kent on November 23, 1979, Kelly studied at the prestigious Italia Conti stage school.
- After Kelly’s mum sent a photograph of her daughter to a modelling competition (which she won), she was picked up by a glamour agency at the age of 16 and ended up doing swimwear and lingerie shoots for the Daily Star, Loaded and the rest.
- She’s now happily attached to 22-year-old rugby star Danny Cipriani, but Kelly also dated gruff-voiced Brit actor Jason Statham for seven years before their break-up in 2004. Between the two, there was a failed engagement with Titanic baddie Billy Zane, who she met on the set of the controversial Three and again shared the screen with in Fishtales.
- Everyone remembers Kelly’s appearances on Strictly, but that wasn’t her first big dancing showcase. You can see Kelly in a briefly-glimpsed slowie with Huck Whitney of The Flaming Stars in the video to Pulp’s 1997 Top 10 hit ‘Help The Aged’.
- In 1999, Kelly replaced Denise van Outen on The Big Breakfast but she left the show after just six months. A leaked report suggested that scripts had to be simplified for Brook’s benefit and claimed “words that have recently caused trouble include ‘intrepid’ and ‘satirical’”.
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