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Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons
on November 23, 1979) is an English model, actress, and occasional
swimwear designer and television presenter.
After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage
school in London for three years before becoming a professional model.
Brook's modeling 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 specializes in bras and lingerie for
full-figured women, and for Foster's beer. Brook 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.
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 5000 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.
Recent modelling work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of
specially commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook's bust.
In 2005, Brook shot a ten page black and white portfolio with photographer
David Bailey. The shoot featured in British design magazine October 2005
issue of Arena magazine.
In 2006, she released successful ranges of swimwear and lingerie at New
Look stores nationwide.
In February 2007, it was announced that Kelly Brook had signed a contract,
reported to be worth £1m, to be the new face and body of Unilever's Lynx
bodyspray, known as Axe in the US and on continental Europe. Kelly has
been on billboards, in newspapers and online as part of the advertising
campaign.
In December 2007, Brook will launch her own signature fragrance, the
bottle shape will replicate her famous curves.
In 1997, still barely 18, Brook started getting work presenting youth
television programmes on MTV, Granada and Trouble TV.
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 presenting team, alongside Johnny Vaughan. Brook remained for
half a year and then parted company with the show in July 1999 after
resigning.
Brook picked up roles presenting for MTV again. In 2005 she presented the
reality television programme Celebrity Love Island for ITV.
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. Brook's 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.
In 2007 she will be seen as a guest star in the British television drama
Hotel Babylon, the independent films In the Mood and Fishtales and Carry
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"But the thing is - and this
is something that really annoys me - a lot of people mistake
lightness for stupidity. If you're cold and mean and dark, you're
smart. If you're sweet and charming and you get on with people, then
you're not. Then, you're ... bubbly."
"I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective
shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom,
boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!"
"I got a lot of, 'This bloody bitch - she only got the job because
of what she looks like.'" -as quoted in the Sept 2002 issue of
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