Wednesday 20 June 2012

Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook Biography
Date of Birth
23 November 1979, Rochester, Kent, England, UK
Birth Name
Kelly Ann Parsons
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Mini Biography
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons; ) is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.
Early life
Brook was born and raised in Rochester, Kent, England. She is the daughter of Sandra, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Kenneth 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. She then studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years before becoming a professional model.
Modelling career
Brook's modelling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, in which she was entered by her mother. She later worked on a range of advertising campaigns, including for Foster's Lager, Renault Megane, Walkers crisps, Piz Buin and Bravissimo, a company that specialises in bras and lingerie for large-breasted women. Her figure eventually 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 lad mags such as GQ, Loaded and FHM. In April of the same year, a poll 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 #34 in 2008, #67 in 2009 and #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 2006, she signed a contract, reported to be worth around £1m, to present 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 has 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 of 2010, Brook appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine. In October 2010, Kelly Brook appeared live in a 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 produces her own line of swimwear with New Look, which she herself has modeled.
Source
The Mini Biography is from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Brook. IMDb is not affiliated with, and neither endorses, nor is endorsed by Wikipedia or any of the authors who contributed to this article. The Wikipedia content may be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 3.0 or any later version, available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Additional or other terms may apply. See Wikipedia Terms of Use for details. This webpage may use the Freebase schema, licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/.
Trivia
Studied for 3 years at the Italia Conti stage school in London, UK. Other actors that have attended Italia Conti include Richard Todd, Noel Coward, Stephen Manwaring & Martine McCutcheon.
Has a brother, Damian, who is two years younger than her. Also has a half- sister, Sasha, whom she credits with getting her into modeling.
She started modelling professionally at 16 and starred in her first advertising campaign for Lee Jeans. Since then she's featured in campaigns for Renault Megane, Walkers and Piz Buin. Her first media break came when she was taken an interest in by the UK national tabloid newspaper The Star, who still regularly publish images of her to this day. She was then recognized by, and is often featured in, the 'lad's mags' FHM, Maxim etc.
Went to a school called Thomas Aveling whilst living in Rochester
Voted #1 in FHM's "Sexiest Women in the World" 2005 list.
One of her first modeling job was for a then mail order lingerie company called Bravissimo in UK. The company specializes in selling bras of large cup sizes.
Made an early appearance in the public eye advertising 'Deathtrap Dungeon' in 1998, posing in photo-shoots as the heroine. In an interview, Johnny Vaughn recalled how this was how he first met her; his wife made the costumes for Eidos photo-shoots.
Named #71 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 women of 2005" list.
Was featured as #97 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 women of 2002" supplement. (2002).
Was engaged to Billy Zane, having been in a relationship with him since July 2004 (April 2005-August 2008).
Was in a relationship with Jason Statham for several years.
Was in a relationship with Danny Cipriani (September 2008-June 2010).
Announced that she and boyfriend Thom Evans, whom she has been in a relationship with since November 2010, are expecting their first child together (17 March 2011).
Her publicist confirmed that Brook had suffered a miscarriage at five months pregnant the previous week and was now resting in her farmhouse in Kent (9 May 2011).
Ranked #8 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
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