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Kelly Brook, born Kelly Anne Parsons on November 23rd, 1979, is a celebrated English model, actress, and media personality. Her journey began with captivating advertising campaigns, which soon caught the attention of the Daily Star tabloid, leading to her iconic debut as a Page Three girl. In 2005, she was crowned FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World, a testament to her enduring appeal, having graced every FHM 100 Sexiest countdown since 1998.
As an actress, Kelly has graced the silver screen in films like Ripper, The Italian Job, House of 9, Survival Island, Fishtales, Piranha 3D, and Taking Stock. Her television presence is equally impressive, with appearances on beloved British shows such as The Big Breakfast, Strictly Come Dancing, Britain's Got Talent, Celebrity Juice, and Loose Women. Since 2019, she's also been a familiar voice on Heart London's Drivetime Radio Show, co-presenting with Jason King.
Born Kelly Anne Parsons in Rochester, Kent, to Sandra Kelly and Kenneth Parsons, Kelly has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Tragically, her father passed away from lung cancer in 2007, during her time on Strictly Come Dancing. Kelly attended the Thomas Aveling School and, at just seventeen, appeared in the BBC comedy show Fist of Fun. She honed her craft at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts for three years before embarking on her professional modeling career at sixteen.
Her modeling career took flight after winning a beauty competition, leading to work on campaigns for Foster's Lager, Renault Mégane, and Walker's crisps. Soon, the Daily Star featured her as a Page Three girl, and her image began appearing in top magazines like GQ, Loaded, and FHM. Grazia magazine once polled over 5,000 women, naming her as having the best British female body. In 2005, she topped FHM's "Sexiest Women in the World" list, a poll reportedly involving 15 million people. She consistently ranked in the FHM 100 Sexiest list, even gracing the cover of their World Cup 2010 special issue. In 2007, she signed a lucrative contract to represent Unilever's Lynx body spray, appearing in numerous advertisements. She also fronted campaigns for Sky+, T-Mobile, Reebok, and Ultimo lingerie. In 2010, she graced the American edition of Playboy and surprised cinemagoers with a promotion for Carlsberg and Sky 3D. She has also launched her own swimwear line with New Look and a clothing line with Simply Be, and in 2015, became a brand ambassador for Skechers.
Kelly made her film debut in Sorted and later appeared in Ripper. She played the girlfriend of Lex Luthor in the American science fiction drama Smallville. Her acting credits also include The Italian Job, and her first starring role was in the 2004 film School for Seduction, earning her positive reviews. She voiced the character Nikki Morris in the video game Need for Speed Underground 2 and starred in the thrillers House of 9 and Survival Island. She also appeared in an Agatha Christie's Marple drama and the second series of Moving Wallpaper. In the horror-comedy remake Piranha 3D, she had a leading role, with the film achieving both critical and commercial success. Kelly also played herself in Keith Lemon: The Film and appeared in the music video for Lawson's song "Juliet." In 2014, she was cast as Prudence in the NBC sitcom pilot One Big Happy.
On stage, Kelly has performed in the play Eye Contact, returned to the West End in Fat Pig, and played Celia in Calendar Girls. She also made a cameo appearance in the cabaret show "Forever Crazy."
Her early work includes appearing in music videos for KMFDM's "Megalomaniac" and Pulp's "Help the Aged." In 2013, she reprised her role as Juliet in Lawson's music video. Kelly began her television presenting career at eighteen, fronting youth programs on MTV UK & Ireland, Granada Television, and Trouble TV. Her breakthrough came in 1999 when she replaced Denise van Outen as the female host of The Big Breakfast. In 2005, she hosted the reality show Celebrity Love Island.
In 2007, Kelly participated in Strictly Come Dancing, a journey marked by the tragic loss of her father. She also competed in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special. In 2008, she joined the judging panel for the reality TV program Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life. The following year, she was a judge on Britain's Got Talent, though her tenure was brief. She later served as a temporary team captain on Celebrity Juice and a team captain on the Channel 5 panel show It's Not Me, It's You. In 2021, she competed on The Masked Dancer as a Frog and in 2024, she participated in Celebrity Race Across the World with her husband, Jeremy Parisi. In November 2025, it was announced she would be a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Kelly released her autobiography, "Close Up," in 2014, which became a Sunday Times Bestseller. The promotional tour drew criticism for her comments about past relationships. In 2013, she co-opened the bar Steam and Rye in London, which later won Bar of the Year at the London Club and Bar Awards.
Since 2019, Kelly has co-presented Heart London Drivetime and Saturday Breakfast with Jason King.
In her personal life, Kelly married her longtime boyfriend Jeremy Parisi in July 2022. In 2014, she publicly discussed punching ex-boyfriends Jason Statham and Danny Cipriani, sparking discussion around domestic violence.
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Kelly Brook (born Kelly Anne Parsons, 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, and media personality. She began her career modelling for a range of advertising campaigns, which led to her discovery by the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, where they featured her as a Page Three girl. She was crowned FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World in 2005, and as of 2015 had featured in every FHM 100 Sexiest countdown since 1998.
As an actress, Brook has appeared in the films Ripper (2001), The Italian Job (2003), House of 9 (2004), Survival Island (2005), Fishtales (2007), Piranha 3D (2010), and Taking Stock (2015). She has appeared on numerous British television shows, including The Big Breakfast (1999), Strictly Come Dancing (2007), Britain's Got Talent (2009), Celebrity Juice (2012–2015), One Big Happy (2015), It's Not Me, It's You (2016), Loose Women (2018, 2024–present), The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off (2020), The Masked Dancer (2021), Celebrity Race Across the World (2024) and I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2025). Since 2019, Brook has co-presented Heart London's Drivetime Radio Show with Jason King.
== Early life ==
Brook was born Kelly Anne Parsons in Rochester, Kent, the daughter of Sandra Kelly, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Kenneth Parsons died, aged 57, in Rochester from lung cancer, on 26 November 2007, during Brook's time on Strictly Come Dancing. Brook attended the Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. In 1996, at the age of seventeen, she appeared in the second series of Fist of Fun, the BBC comedy show from Stewart Lee and Richard Herring as a schoolgirl in a series of sketches entitled 'Teachers' (one of her co-stars was the young Daniel Mays). She studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts for three years, before becoming a professional model at the age of 16.
== Modelling career ==
Brook's modelling career began at 16 after she won a beauty competition, into which her mother had entered her. She later worked on a range of advertising campaigns, including Foster's Lager, Renault Mégane, Walker's crisps, Piz Buin and Bravissimo, a company that specialises in bras and lingerie for large-breasted women. Soon after, she caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, which began featuring her as a Page Three girl. Brook's picture soon began appearing in other lads' mags such as GQ, Loaded and FHM. A poll of over 5,000 women for Grazia magazine considered her to have the best British female body. She also topped the "FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World" list in 2005, which was said to have polled 15 million people. Appearing in this list every year since 1998, she ranked No. 34 in 2008, No. 67 in 2009, and No. 7 in 2010. She was the cover star of FHM's World Cup 2010 special issue, and was on the cover of the magazine in April 2011.
In February 2007, it was announced that Brook had signed a contract, reported to be worth around £1m, to represent Unilever's Lynx body spray, known as "Axe" in the US and in continental Europe. She has appeared on billboards, in newspapers and on-line as part of their advertising campaign. She also appeared in commercials for Sky+ and T-Mobile and modelled for Reebok. In 2010, she was chosen as the "new face and body" of lingerie maker Ultimo's advertising campaign. In September 2010, Brook appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine. In October 2010, Brook appeared live at Clapham Picture House to surprise cinemagoers as part of a promotion for Carlsberg and Sky 3D. In November 2010, Brook presented an award at MTV's EMA's in Madrid. Brook produced a line of swimwear with New Look, for which she has modelled. In September 2014, Brook launched a clothing line for Simply Be. The following year, she became a brand ambassador for Skechers.
== Acting career ==
In 2000, Brook made her full-screen debut with a minor role in the film Sorted. Shortly after that, she appeared in the film Ripper. She played the girlfriend of Clark Kent/Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor in four episodes of the American science fiction drama Smallville during the show's first season (2001–02). She has also completed assignments as a film actress in Canada and made a short appearance as Lyle's girlfriend in the 2003 film The Italian Job. Her first starring role was in the 2004 film School for Seduction, for which she received positive reviews. In 2004, she played character Nikki Morris in the video game Need for Speed Underground 2, alongside Brooke Burke. In 2005, she appeared in the Philippe Vidal thriller House of 9, and starred opposite Billy Zane in the survival thriller Survival Island, also known as Three.
In 2006, she starred in an Agatha Christie's Marple drama on ITV and appeared as herself throughout the second series of Moving Wallpaper, also for ITV, in 2009. She acted in the science fiction thriller Shadow Play, directed by Nick Simon. Brook had a leading role in the horror comedy remake Piranha 3D. The film received a worldwide theatrical release on 20 August 2010. Piranha 3D opened to generally positive reviews and commercial success, grossing $83.2 million on a budget of $24 million.
Kelly played herself alongside Leigh Francis in the British comedy film Keith Lemon: The Film (2012), which won 'Funniest Film' at the 2013 Loaded Lafta Awards. In 2013, Brook appeared in the video to Lawson's song "Juliet". In 2014 she was cast as Prudence in an NBC sitcom pilot called One Big Happy, which was subsequently picked up on 9 May.
=== Theatre ===
In December 2000, she played exotic dancer Anya in the play Eye Contact at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. In October 2008, she returned to the West End as Jeannie, in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig at London's Comedy Theatre. In November 2009, she began playing Celia in Calendar Girls at the Noël Coward Theatre. Brook made a cameo appearance in the cabaret show "Forever Crazy" by Crazy Horse London end of 2012.
== Other work ==
=== Music videos ===
In 1997, at age 17, Brook appeared as a nurse in the music video for the KMFDM song "Megalomaniac". That same year, Brook appeared in the video for Pulp's "Help the Aged" with Huck Whitney of the band the Flaming Stars, in a slow dance sequence. In 2013, Brook appeared in the Lawson music video for their song "Juliet", in the role of Juliet.
=== Television presenting ===
In 1997, aged 18, Brook started presenting youth television programmes on MTV UK & Ireland, Granada Television and the Trouble TV channel. Brook had a breakthrough into mainstream presenting in January 1999, when she was chosen to replace Denise van Outen as the female half of The Big Breakfast hosting team, alongside Johnny Vaughan. She left the show in July 1999. In 2005, she hosted the reality television programme Celebrity Love Island for ITV.
=== Reality television ===
In 2007, Brook participated in the celebrity dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1 with a dance partner Brendan Cole. During the TV series, her father, Kenneth Parsons, died of cancer. Although initially decided to continue dancing in his memory, she withdrew from the competition in week nine. She also competed in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2008, dancing the Jive with Brian Fortuna, Brendan Cole having to compete with his later partner Lisa Snowdon. Brook and Fortuna were put into fourth place, but with the studio audience's vote, they came second to Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett. In 2008, Brook took Jennifer Ellison's place as one of the three judges on the second series of the reality TV programme Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life, broadcast between September and November 2008.
In January 2009, she joined the third series of Britain's Got Talent as a fourth judge but was subsequently axed from the programme after less than a week on the panel, the producers having decided the four-judge format was "too complicated". Brook was billed as a guest judge in the episode in which she appeared, taped in Manchester and aired on 16 May. In 2013, Brook became a temporary team captain on Celebrity Juice aired on ITV2. She appeared in Season 9, replacing Fearne Cotton while she was on maternity leave. In 2016, Brook served as a team captain on the Channel 5 panel show It's Not Me, It's You. In 2021, Brook appeared on The Masked Dancer, masked as a Frog. She was the eighth celebrity to be unmasked in the semi-final.
In 2024, Brook competed alongside her husband Jeremy Parisi on the second series of Celebrity Race Across the World. They ultimately finished fourth. In November 2025, it was announced that Brook would appear as a contestant on the twenty-fifth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
=== Books ===
In September 2014, Brook released her autobiography; it reached the Sunday Times Bestseller list on 21 September. Domestic violence groups criticised her during her promotional tour for laughing about punching ex-boyfriends Jason Statham and Danny Cipriani in the face.
=== Business ===
At end of 2013, Brook opened her bar Steam and Rye in London in partnership with Nick House. In June 2014, Steam and Rye won Bar of the Year at the London Club and Bar Awards.
=== Radio ===
Since January 2019, Brook has co-presented Heart London Drivetime and Saturday Breakfast with Jason King.
== Personal life ==
In 2014, on an appearance on ITV's This Morning, she admitted to punching previous boyfriends Jason Statham and Danny Cipriani in the face, with Men's Domestic Abuse charity Menkind subsequently issuing a statement saying it was "extremely disappointed" by the segment. In July 2022, Brook married her longtime boyfriend Jeremy Parisi, whom she had dated since 2015.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
=== Television ===
=== Television advertisements ===
=== Music videos ===
== Bibliography ==
Close Up (2014) (autobiography)
== References ==
== External links ==
Official website
JK and Kelly Brook on Heart Radio
Kelly Brook at IMDb
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