Kelly Brook Biography

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

After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conte stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model. 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 is 5'8" tall, and her figure is very well suited for Bravissimo, since she wears a size 32E to 34E brassiere. Her figure caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began featuring her as a page 3 girl. Brook's picture soon began appearing in other lad's mags such as FHM (and repeatedly landing in its list of the "100 Sexiest Women of the Year") and Loaded. She topped the 2005 FHM list, which was said to have polled 15 million people. Kelly has also done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery modeling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modeling.

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

Her 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. 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 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. Vaughan, in an interview with Heat, condemned these attacks as inaccurate and vindictive, especially towards a young presenter. Kelly 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.

Brook picked up roles presenting for MTV again and modeling for Triumph Bras - whose specially commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook's bust caused quite a stir. Brook has also 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). Kelly has also completed assignments as a movie actress in Canada. She also made a short appearance as Lyle's girlfriend in the 2003 movie The Italian Job.

Brook also stars in School for Seduction, a 2004 film.