Kelly Brook

About Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook is an English model, actress, media personality, and former content creator across YouTube and reality television. She has an older half-sister named Sasha and a younger brother named Damian. The American Playboy magazine featured her in its September 2010 issue. After attending the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts for three years, Brook launched her modeling career at age sixteen following a beauty pageant victory arranged by her mother. Her professional work encompassed prominent advertising partnerships with Foster's Lager, Renault Mégane, Walker's crisps, Piz Buin, and Bravissimo, the lingerie brand catering to larger cup sizes. At seventeen, she guest-starred in the second season of the BBC comedy Fist of Fun created by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, performing in the "Teachers" sketch segment alongside young Daniel Mays. Television presenting began in 1997 when the eighteen-year-old hosted youth programs on MTV UK & Ireland, Granada Television, and Trouble TV. Her mainstream breakthrough arrived in January 1999 as Johnny Vaughan's co-host on The Big Breakfast, replacing Denise van Outen until her July departure. Brook presented Celebrity Love Island for ITV in 2005 and subsequently became a Daily Star Page Three model before appearing in publications including GQ, Loaded, and FHM. A Grazia survey of five thousand women voted her the finest British female physique. She dominated FHM's 2005 "100 Sexiest Women in the World" ranking, allegedly polling fifteen million voters, and consistently appeared annually since 1998, placing thirty-four in 2008, sixty-seven in 2009, and seven in 2010. She graced FHM's World Cup 2010 special and April 2011 cover. Film roles included Ripper, The Italian Job, School for Seduction, House of 9, Survival Island, Fishtales, Piranha 3D, and Taking Stock. Television appearances span The Big Breakfast, Strictly Come Dancing, Britain's Got Talent, Celebrity Juice, One Big Happy, It's Not Me, It's You, Loose Women, and The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off. Since 2019, she co-hosts Heart London's Drivetime Radio Show with Jason King. Brook participated in 2007's Strictly Come Dancing with Brendan Cole and the 2008 Christmas Special with Brian Fortuna, finishing second to Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett. She replaced Jennifer Ellison as judge on Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life's second series in 2008. Brook joined Britain's Got Talent as fourth judge