‘My men were all fucking spineless’: Kelly Brook on the truth about her needy lovers, her TV failures and the tragic loss of her baby at six months
Kelly has released a tell-all biography and she has dedicated it to her breasts
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.
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.”’
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.’
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.’
Kelly had a scholarship to Italia Conti stage school and could have stayed on for A-levels, but left when she was 16 as her parents couldn’t afford the fares from Kent to London. That was her first heartbreak and it formed her. She decided to use glamour modelling as a circuitous route into acting: she had control of her own image (she never showed her nipples) and made money from it. She says people were a lot kinder there than in the TV world where she was ‘eaten for breakfast’.
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