Kelly has released a tell-all biography and she has dedicated it to her breasts
The last time I spoke to Kelly Brook was on the dancefloor after the cameras stopped rolling on Strictly.
She was all sequins and smiles and had just done an amazing dance with Brendan Cole, but she whispered solemnly, ‘I may not be here next week.’ She didn’t mean she feared being voted out, she was top of the leader board.
She was dancing for her father Kenneth, also a ballroom lover, but he was dying of cancer and no matter how hard she danced to make him happy, to stop herself from being overwhelmed with grief, she knew he was coming to the end.
That week, in November 2007, he died. Kelly was inconsolable. She started to write about him, his illness, her family, and it formed the start of her memoir Close Up.
The book is an unflinching account of a life that’s been played out largely in the media, and the doomed romances that have littered it.
Kelly first fell in love at the age of 18 with former British high diver turned Hollywood hardman Jason Statham, but their relationship hit the rocks after seven years when she met Titanic actor Billy Zane in 2004.
They became engaged, but he was living a champagne lifestyle on lemonade money and she called it off after four years.
She lost a baby at six months with former Scottish rugby player Thom Evans in 2011, causing that relationship to fall apart too, before rekindling her romance with womanising England rugby player Danny Cipriani, whom she’d previously dated for two years before Evans. When she discovered Cipriani was a serial cheater last year their split was both explosive and final.
But on the plus side her calendars are bestsellers, as is her range of swimwear, and she’s been happily engaged for the past six months to fitness expert David McIntosh. She’s now also about to star in new American TV comedy One Big Happy.
Ellen DeGeneres is the executive producer. Whatever’s been thrown at Kelly in the past – disastrous jobs at The Big Breakfast and Britain’s Got Talent, disastrous boyfriends – she’s always had the ability to turn it around and never come across as a victim.
Today when we meet she looks radiant in a floral playsuit. She’s tangibly happy, open and funny, and I’m interested in what prompted her to write the book.
‘Oh, I’ve wasted so much time with stupid boys and doing stupid things, there’s been so much written about me, I thought it’s about time I closed the door on all those chapters. I’ve been so defined by those relationships and things that have happened, I wanted to put my point of view across. That way I can move on.
‘I wanted people to understand what happened, and I’m not a victim. It’s just the nature of things. If you dance with the Devil you get burnt. But who wouldn’t want to dance with the Devil every now and then? What’s life if you don’t give it a go?’
She’d been approached many times by various publishers. ‘But I’d always wanted to be private, and then after the Danny Cipriani thing last year I thought I’m sick of protecting people. He was sleeping with so many women behind my back and yet I was blamed for being a bad influence on him. He never stood up and said it was nothing to do with Kelly.’
She now sees what was obvious from the start. Cipriani is a needy man. ‘He needs constant attention from any woman at any time and if you’re not going to give it to him there’s a whole line of women who are ready to.
‘From the attention of his own mother to his friend’s mother to glamour models. It’s endless. I started to think all these men are absolutely spineless. I got wound up in the celebrity culture – I was either associated with them or the failure at The Big Breakfast. Anyone or anything in this book is fair game.’
She’s scathing about Cipriani. She says he wasn’t funny or intelligent and his only chat up line was: ‘You’re the one. I’ve never felt like this. I want to have your babies.’ ‘Except two weeks later he’s saying it to the next one. When I found out he was with his friend’s mum that was it. I thought, “I can’t help you any more. I’m going to Hollywood. See you later.”’
Does she think there’s been a similarity in the men she’s gone for? ‘Yes, they’ve all been on their a***s when I met them. They didn’t have a career or they were at the end of one career and trying to start something else. I met them all at not a very good time for them and that’s my fault for being nurturing, for being like Mary Poppins. They were all either in debt, or had no job, or they were figuring out what to do.
‘Jason was at the end of his career as a diver when I met him. He wanted to be an actor. Thom had just broken his neck and was finishing with rugby. Danny was just starting his rugby career. And Billy was at the end of his movie career. I tried to help them and give them encouragement.’
She says she and Statham began as equals when they met on a photo shoot at the end of his diving career in 1997, although he was 12 years older, and their careers began to take off at the same time.
He went on to star in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. He and Kelly enjoyed Ritchie’s Hollywood, hanging out with Madonna and Vinnie Jones. Statham went on to be one of Britain’s highest-earning exports, and is now dating British model and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Kelly was with him for seven years, but whenever she tried to talk to him about getting married or having a baby he didn’t want to commit. It’s not surprising she got swept away in the excessive Billy Zane when they met in 2004 on the set of a movie called Survival Island.
‘Jason was my first love,’ she says with a hint of wistfulness. Did she perhaps get involved with Zane to shake things up with Jason, but they got shaken up too much? ‘Yes, I guess so. Billy was never going to be somebody I wanted to spend my life with (despite the fact they got engaged). It was a fling. I knew the relationship with Billy would either make us or break us, and it broke us. Jason says even to this day, “It was my ego. I couldn’t get my head around it.”
‘I know that for many years afterwards he wasn’t happy. Neither of us were. Part of us will always love each other and there have been times… for instance, last year when the Danny thing was ending, Jason called out of the blue and said, “I still love you so much”, and I said “I still love you.” We’ll always still love each other.
Then I read the next day that he’d broken up with Rosie so it was obvious why he called. I don’t want to be a crutch for someone and I thought it was a genuine phone call. Men are such pigs. He and Rosie got back together and I haven’t heard from him since.’
Billy Zane sounds insane and completely controlling. ‘He threw all my clothes away.’ At that time she was wearing the young Hollywood uniform of jeans and a Juicy Couture hoody.
‘He threw everything away. It was an interesting exercise. He wanted me either to look like a 60s Bond girl or a 50s housewife. That’s how he saw me. I felt I had to find out who I was and what my own style was anyway, but it was controlling. He projected all his fantasies on to me. I never had a real life with him. I was always in a fantasy fairytale.’
She describes her four years with Billy as involving endless private jets or first class flights to the world’s most exclusive destinations, although he didn’t have a home at the time.
‘I was paying for most of that. I’d done well for myself but suddenly I was living this lifestyle and thinking I can’t keep up with this. I guess if you’ve been a Hollywood movie star for many years, it’s hard to live with me in Sydenham. That was part of the reason I didn’t marry him. As soon as the next muse came along he’d be off and I wasn’t prepared to share everything I’d worked for with someone who didn’t deserve it.’
Kelly (right) with her mother Sandra and brother Damian before she became famous
It wasn’t all bad with Billy. It was exciting and he was a wonderful lover. ‘You can’t find someone with everything, can you? That’s why some guys cheat all the time. They don’t have sexual chemistry with their wives so they look for it elsewhere. I don’t think Danny had the sexual chemistry with me that he had with all those women he was cheating on me with. But he’s never going to have with them what he had with me. He’s got that whole Madonna/whore complex.’
Kelly had wanted to start a family since she first got broody with Jason. When she finally became pregnant it was with Thom Evans four years ago. Was it at the wrong time or was he the wrong person? ‘Oh definitely the wrong person. Thom needed a career, not a girlfriend. He’s a selfish man. He’s an athlete and a lot of athletes are selfish.’
Athletes are part of Kelly’s pattern. Why does she go for them if they’re selfish? ‘Because they’re disciplined. My life is chaotic so it’s nice to have routine. Thom was supposed to be a bit of fun but I got pregnant quickly, absolutely from nowhere as we’d been careful. When I had the miscarriage I was distraught but I wasn’t going to spend the rest of my life with Thom. As soon as he started modelling he wanted a whole other world.’
Does she think about how her life would be if she’d had that little girl? ‘Yes, of course. Some of my friends’ children are the same age as my daughter would have been. There are times when I really wish I’d had that child, that it doesn’t matter whether you’re together because you’ve got a child. Hopefully I’ll have a baby soon.’
Kelly with her father Kenneth who died in 2007, Kelly began to write about her memories with him and that is what started her book
She always refers to the loss of the baby when she was six months pregnant as a miscarriage, when technically it was a stillbirth. Is that because it’s the only way she can look at it?
‘Yes, it was a stillbirth, but in my mind it was a miscarriage, that’s how I can deal with it. The hospital were insisting otherwise and wanted to record a name, but I didn’t give them one because I hadn’t thought of one yet and I’ve never regretted that. I wanted to move on from that whole experience.’
She became pregnant again very quickly, but lost that child after a few weeks. ‘It happens to many, many women and you just have to think when the time is right it will happen. Until then you have to be grateful for what you have, not what you don’t have, although I don’t want to get to the point where I don’t have a choice any more.’
She dedicates the book to her boobs. ‘They’ve been the most consistently talked about things, despite all the headlines about my relationships and the major sackings from TV shows. I’ve pretty much built an empire on them. I was going to call the book The Booby Diaries because I’m grateful for all the opportunities that have come my way because of them. But I wanted to cover serious topics too.’
The last time I spoke to Kelly Brook was on the dancefloor after the cameras stopped rolling on Strictly.
She was all sequins and smiles and had just done an amazing dance with Brendan Cole, but she whispered solemnly, ‘I may not be here next week.’ She didn’t mean she feared being voted out, she was top of the leader board.
She was dancing for her father Kenneth, also a ballroom lover, but he was dying of cancer and no matter how hard she danced to make him happy, to stop herself from being overwhelmed with grief, she knew he was coming to the end.
Kelly has released a tell-all biography and she has dedicated it to her breasts
That week, in November 2007, he died. Kelly was inconsolable. She started to write about him, his illness, her family, and it formed the start of her memoir Close Up.
The book is an unflinching account of a life that’s been played out largely in the media, and the doomed romances that have littered it.
Kelly first fell in love at the age of 18 with former British high diver turned Hollywood hardman Jason Statham, but their relationship hit the rocks after seven years when she met Titanic actor Billy Zane in 2004.
They became engaged, but he was living a champagne lifestyle on lemonade money and she called it off after four years.
She lost a baby at six months with former Scottish rugby player Thom Evans in 2011, causing that relationship to fall apart too, before rekindling her romance with womanising England rugby player Danny Cipriani, whom she’d previously dated for two years before Evans. When she discovered Cipriani was a serial cheater last year their split was both explosive and final.
But on the plus side her calendars are bestsellers, as is her range of swimwear, and she’s been happily engaged for the past six months to fitness expert David McIntosh. She’s now also about to star in new American TV comedy One Big Happy.
Ellen DeGeneres is the executive producer. Whatever’s been thrown at Kelly in the past – disastrous jobs at The Big Breakfast and Britain’s Got Talent, disastrous boyfriends – she’s always had the ability to turn it around and never come across as a victim.
Today when we meet she looks radiant in a floral playsuit. She’s tangibly happy, open and funny, and I’m interested in what prompted her to write the book.
‘Oh, I’ve wasted so much time with stupid boys and doing stupid things, there’s been so much written about me, I thought it’s about time I closed the door on all those chapters. I’ve been so defined by those relationships and things that have happened, I wanted to put my point of view across. That way I can move on.
‘I wanted people to understand what happened, and I’m not a victim. It’s just the nature of things. If you dance with the Devil you get burnt. But who wouldn’t want to dance with the Devil every now and then? What’s life if you don’t give it a go?’
She’d been approached many times by various publishers. ‘But I’d always wanted to be private, and then after the Danny Cipriani thing last year I thought I’m sick of protecting people. He was sleeping with so many women behind my back and yet I was blamed for being a bad influence on him. He never stood up and said it was nothing to do with Kelly.’
She now sees what was obvious from the start. Cipriani is a needy man. ‘He needs constant attention from any woman at any time and if you’re not going to give it to him there’s a whole line of women who are ready to.
‘From the attention of his own mother to his friend’s mother to glamour models. It’s endless. I started to think all these men are absolutely spineless. I got wound up in the celebrity culture – I was either associated with them or the failure at The Big Breakfast. Anyone or anything in this book is fair game.’
She’s scathing about Cipriani. She says he wasn’t funny or intelligent and his only chat up line was: ‘You’re the one. I’ve never felt like this. I want to have your babies.’ ‘Except two weeks later he’s saying it to the next one. When I found out he was with his friend’s mum that was it. I thought, “I can’t help you any more. I’m going to Hollywood. See you later.”’
Does she think there’s been a similarity in the men she’s gone for? ‘Yes, they’ve all been on their a***s when I met them. They didn’t have a career or they were at the end of one career and trying to start something else. I met them all at not a very good time for them and that’s my fault for being nurturing, for being like Mary Poppins. They were all either in debt, or had no job, or they were figuring out what to do.
‘Jason was at the end of his career as a diver when I met him. He wanted to be an actor. Thom had just broken his neck and was finishing with rugby. Danny was just starting his rugby career. And Billy was at the end of his movie career. I tried to help them and give them encouragement.’
She says she and Statham began as equals when they met on a photo shoot at the end of his diving career in 1997, although he was 12 years older, and their careers began to take off at the same time.
He went on to star in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. He and Kelly enjoyed Ritchie’s Hollywood, hanging out with Madonna and Vinnie Jones. Statham went on to be one of Britain’s highest-earning exports, and is now dating British model and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Kelly was with him for seven years, but whenever she tried to talk to him about getting married or having a baby he didn’t want to commit. It’s not surprising she got swept away in the excessive Billy Zane when they met in 2004 on the set of a movie called Survival Island.
‘Jason was my first love,’ she says with a hint of wistfulness. Did she perhaps get involved with Zane to shake things up with Jason, but they got shaken up too much? ‘Yes, I guess so. Billy was never going to be somebody I wanted to spend my life with (despite the fact they got engaged). It was a fling. I knew the relationship with Billy would either make us or break us, and it broke us. Jason says even to this day, “It was my ego. I couldn’t get my head around it.”
‘I know that for many years afterwards he wasn’t happy. Neither of us were. Part of us will always love each other and there have been times… for instance, last year when the Danny thing was ending, Jason called out of the blue and said, “I still love you so much”, and I said “I still love you.” We’ll always still love each other.
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Then I read the next day that he’d broken up with Rosie so it was obvious why he called. I don’t want to be a crutch for someone and I thought it was a genuine phone call. Men are such pigs. He and Rosie got back together and I haven’t heard from him since.’
Billy Zane sounds insane and completely controlling. ‘He threw all my clothes away.’ At that time she was wearing the young Hollywood uniform of jeans and a Juicy Couture hoody.
‘He threw everything away. It was an interesting exercise. He wanted me either to look like a 60s Bond girl or a 50s housewife. That’s how he saw me. I felt I had to find out who I was and what my own style was anyway, but it was controlling. He projected all his fantasies on to me. I never had a real life with him. I was always in a fantasy fairytale.’
She describes her four years with Billy as involving endless private jets or first class flights to the world’s most exclusive destinations, although he didn’t have a home at the time.
‘I was paying for most of that. I’d done well for myself but suddenly I was living this lifestyle and thinking I can’t keep up with this. I guess if you’ve been a Hollywood movie star for many years, it’s hard to live with me in Sydenham. That was part of the reason I didn’t marry him. As soon as the next muse came along he’d be off and I wasn’t prepared to share everything I’d worked for with someone who didn’t deserve it.’
Kelly (right) with her mother Sandra and brother Damian before she became famous
It wasn’t all bad with Billy. It was exciting and he was a wonderful lover. ‘You can’t find someone with everything, can you? That’s why some guys cheat all the time. They don’t have sexual chemistry with their wives so they look for it elsewhere. I don’t think Danny had the sexual chemistry with me that he had with all those women he was cheating on me with. But he’s never going to have with them what he had with me. He’s got that whole Madonna/whore complex.’
Dumping Jason for charmer Billy in 2004 led to a four-year ‘fling’ and eventually a broken engagement.
DANNY CIPRIANI
Kelly had wanted to start a family since she first got broody with Jason. When she finally became pregnant it was with Thom Evans four years ago. Was it at the wrong time or was he the wrong person? ‘Oh definitely the wrong person. Thom needed a career, not a girlfriend. He’s a selfish man. He’s an athlete and a lot of athletes are selfish.’
Athletes are part of Kelly’s pattern. Why does she go for them if they’re selfish? ‘Because they’re disciplined. My life is chaotic so it’s nice to have routine. Thom was supposed to be a bit of fun but I got pregnant quickly, absolutely from nowhere as we’d been careful. When I had the miscarriage I was distraught but I wasn’t going to spend the rest of my life with Thom. As soon as he started modelling he wanted a whole other world.’
Kelly’s now happily engaged to fitness model David, who recently appeared on Celebrity Big Brother.
Does she think about how her life would be if she’d had that little girl? ‘Yes, of course. Some of my friends’ children are the same age as my daughter would have been. There are times when I really wish I’d had that child, that it doesn’t matter whether you’re together because you’ve got a child. Hopefully I’ll have a baby soon.’
Kelly with her father Kenneth who died in 2007, Kelly began to write about her memories with him and that is what started her book
She always refers to the loss of the baby when she was six months pregnant as a miscarriage, when technically it was a stillbirth. Is that because it’s the only way she can look at it?
‘Yes, it was a stillbirth, but in my mind it was a miscarriage, that’s how I can deal with it. The hospital were insisting otherwise and wanted to record a name, but I didn’t give them one because I hadn’t thought of one yet and I’ve never regretted that. I wanted to move on from that whole experience.’
She became pregnant again very quickly, but lost that child after a few weeks. ‘It happens to many, many women and you just have to think when the time is right it will happen. Until then you have to be grateful for what you have, not what you don’t have, although I don’t want to get to the point where I don’t have a choice any more.’
Kelly was dancing in Strictly when her father died
She dedicates the book to her boobs. ‘They’ve been the most consistently talked about things, despite all the headlines about my relationships and the major sackings from TV shows. I’ve pretty much built an empire on them. I was going to call the book The Booby Diaries because I’m grateful for all the opportunities that have come my way because of them. But I wanted to cover serious topics too.’
