Biography
Kelly Brook was born Kelly Ann Parsons on the 23rd November 1979 in Rochester, Kent, England. She is a model, actress, swimwear designer and television presenter. After finishing school Kelly studied at the Italia Conti stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model. Her modelling 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 specialises in bras and lingerie for big-breasted women, and for Foster's beer. Kelly is 5 feet, 9 inches (173 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began featuring her as a Page Three Girl. Kelly's picture soon began appearing in other men's 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. She has also done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery modelling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modelling. Recent modelling work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of specially commissioned fifty-foot high billboards of her bust. Kelly Brook has appeared in minor roles in a string of movies including Sorted and Ripper. She appeared in five episodes of Smallville season one.
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.
In February 2006, the announcement came out that she had 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 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 was not a prolonged success. Some say citation needed she failed to recreate the on-screen "chemistry" that van Outen had achieved with Vaughan, while others commented 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.
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 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 On 13 September2007, it was announced that Brook would be participating in the 2007 celebrity dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1, with her professional ballroom dance partner being Brendan Cole. During the TV series, her father Kenneth Parsons died from cancer (26 November 2007), and although she was originally determined to continue with the dancing program, she decided to withdraw from the competition. It is now suggested that she might be taking part in Dancing With The Stars.
Filmography
- Sorted (2000) as Sarah
- The (Mis)Adventures of Fiona Plum (2001) as Fiona Plum
- Ripper (2001) as Marisa Tavares
- Smallville (2002, 4 episodes) as Victoria Hardwick
- Absolon (2003) as Claire
- The Italian Job (2003) as Lyle's Girlfriend
- School for Seduction (2004) as Sophia Rosselini
- House of 9 (2005) as Lea
- Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005) as Linda Fashiobella
- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) as Beautiful Woman in Painting
- Marple: "The Moving Finger" (2006) as Elsie Holland
- Three (2006) as Jennifer
- In the Mood (2006) as Eva
- Hotel Babylon: "Episode #2.3" (2007) as Lady Catherine Stanwood
- Fishtales (2007) as Neried
Why Is She Famous?
Kelly Brook is one of England's best known models, who is regularly included in the Top 10 of most men's magazines "Sexiest Women" polls. She even ranked No. 33 on AskMen's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007. She was also a TV presenter on The Big Breakfast, and got the green light for a show on the WB network called The (Mis)adventures of Fiona Plum.
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Measurements: 32E-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine Voted #1 in FHM Sexiest Women 2005
Named #71 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
Was featured as #97 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 of 2002" supplement. (2002)
Kelly Brooks 2008 Wedding
February 4 2008 -
Kelly Brook plans to marry fiancé Billy Zane this year.
The British actress is determined to tie the knot with her 'Titanic' actor lover in 2008, after postponing last year's ceremony following her father Kenneth's death in November.
She said: "We were going to going to get married last year but then my father was diagnosed with cancer so obviously we just weren't able to do it.
"I'm torn between having something really small in England or something i n Greece because that's where Billy is from."
The former 'Smallville' star admits she is terrified about having to choose a wedding dress.
She said: "Choosing the dress is the scariest thing. I think it will depend on location and climate. My favourite all time wedding dress is the one Grace Kelly wore. She looked spectacular. She had that mystery about her."
Kelly and Billy got engaged in 2006 after meeting on the set of 'Three' in 2005.
Kelly Brook's Breasts Wow US
March 30 2007 -
Kelly Brook says Americans love her large natural breasts.
The British actress - who has a home in Hollywood which she shares with her actor fiancé Billy Zane - claims so many people in Los Angeles have fake boobs they love seeing her real mammaries.
Kelly said in an interview with Britain's FHM magazine: "My breasts are a bit of a novelty in California."
"And they go mad for my teeth as well. None of them can believe someone from England can have white teeth."
The 'Smallville' star has also revealed although she and Billy prefer to spend as much of their time in their home in the English countryside, they do enjoy their glamorous life in Tinseltown.
She said: "We went to a barbecue at producer Lawrence Bender's place and everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Sylvester Stallone was there.
"A Hollywood barbecue is nothing like an English one. There's no burnt burgers!"
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