Kelly Brook

About Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook (born Kelly Anne Parsons) is an English model, actress, media personality, former YouTuber, and former reality TV star.

Brooke studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts for three years, before becoming a professional model at the age of 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.

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).

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.

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.

As an actress, Brook has appeared in the films Ripper (2001), The Italian Job (2003), School for Seduction (2004), 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), and The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off (2020). Since 2019, Brook has co-presented Heart London's Drivetime Radio Show with Jason King.

In 2007, Brook participated in the celebrity reality TV dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1 with a dance partner Brendan Cole. 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.

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.

Brook is of English and Welch descent. In July 2022, Brook married her longtime boyfriend Jeremy Parisi, whom she had dated since 2015.

As of February 2025, Brook has amassed 1.3 million Instagram followers, and 841 thousand followers on X.