Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook is an English model, actress, and TV personality whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining late-1990s and 2000s English glamour-modeling and American film roles — particularly her 2000–2003 lead role as the GMTV breakfast TV show host on the English ITV breakfast TV series and her 2010 supporting role in Piranha 3D. She was born Kelly Ann Parsons on November 23, 1979, in Rochester, Kent, England. Her father Kenneth Parsons was an English construction-site scaffolder, and her mother Sandra Kelly was a homemaker. She subsequently adopted her mother's maiden name as her professional surname.

Her 1995 first amateur-modeling-competition victory at age 16 — at a local Rochester, Kent modeling competition organized by the English magazine The Mail on Sunday — launched her late-1990s English glamour-modeling public profile. Her 1996 first Page 3 photograph in The Sun tabloid newspaper (at age 16, just before the legal English age of consent for Page 3 modeling at the time) launched her late-1990s English glamour-modeling commercial breakthrough.

Her 1999 first English TV appearance as a hostess on the BBC late-night TV series The Big Breakfast (alongside Johnny Vaughan) and her subsequent 2000 transfer to ITV's GMTV breakfast TV show as a co-host produced her late-1990s and early-2000s English TV public profile. Her 2002 first feature-film appearance in Sorted launched her early-2000s English-and-American film career.

Her 2010 supporting role as Danni Arslow in Alexandre Aja's 3D horror-comedy film Piranha 3D (alongside Elisabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd, and Jerry O'Connell) produced her American film public profile. Her later 2010s and 2020s career has produced multiple English TV-personality appearances — particularly the 2014–2015 BBC Radio 1 daytime presenter role and her 2017 lead role in ITV's Hidden drama. She has been with Italian fitness model Jeremy Parisi since 2015.

Her name Kelly derives from the Old Irish-Gaelic Ceallaigh meaning "warrior" or "bright-headed." Kelly was the most-popular American unisex name through the 1970s and 1980s.