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Kelly Brook credits getting married to her husband as a life-changing moment
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Jun 15, 2025
#AD Heart’s Kelly and Anna Whitehouse joined up with Aviva UK to highlight the power of having someone who truly has your back. “For many years, I didn’t really have a support network.” Watch as Kelly gets candid with us about her past - she shines a light on the importance of her husband Jeremy, and how they’re each other’s support network. Subscribe for regular entertainment! http://bit.ly/1qyfc2T Watch videos in full + exclusives here: https://thisisheart.co/heartglobalplayer Honest Celebrity Interviews: https://thisisheart.co/honestinterviews Music Artists: https://thisisheart.co/3YVm8wN Film and TV Stars: https://thisisheart.co/filmandtv _ We're the UK's biggest commercial radio brand creating memorable moments with the most recognised names in entertainment!
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So who handle have you got in today
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Got Kelly Brooke. Can't wait to have a proper chin work with her
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She's all smiles, but I'm kind of intrigued to know who's holding her behind her foot
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Love you, baby. How are you? KB, Kelly Brooke in the house. So you've just done your marathon
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I have indeed. I have. You're on telly. You're on the radio. But behind all of that, everybody needs their support network. Everybody needs their village. Everybody needs that one person who has their back. Who is that to you
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I would say it would have to be my husband, Jeremy. I think for many years, I didn't really have a support network in terms of family because of the pure nature of what I was doing
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I was modeling and acting, traveling the world. And you're just spending a lot of the time alone
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And then when I met my husband, we were actually living in separate countries
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He was living in France. I was living in Los Angeles. And we had to really to make it work, like figure out where we could be together
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Obviously, we chose the UK. So he's lived here for 10 years now
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So we are each other's kind of support network. You know, when he first moved here, he didn't speak English
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So I really helped him. He really helped kind of keep me grounded and focused on work here
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because I had to kind of make it work in the UK and kind of put roots down somewhere
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And that was a first for me because I'd never really done that. I was always kind of, I don't know, just chasing different projects and traveling so much
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So you've both kind of had each other's backs. Absolutely. So how have you like wrapped your arms around him in the sense of how have you gone
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Look, you've held me in these moments. How do you hold him? Well, I think you've got a glimpse of that when we did Race Across the World together
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because I spent years talking for him. For many years, he didn't speak English and his English was very limited
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And I found that when we were in social situations he would really kind of close down and be not as confident as he was at home in case he made a mistake or he said the wrong thing or
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people would laugh at him. So I kind of would always speak for him which is a terrible habit
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I got into and probably something I've still not got the habit out of but that's how I kind of held
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him like he knows that if he comes to work like if we work together or if we do something together
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He knows I've got his back and I've always played that role, I think. How would you say Jeremy has kind of shaped your career
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shaped your happiness, I suppose, shaped your life in terms of his support
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It's very easy in this business to get caught up in the hype
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and, you know, the chaos of it all. And I think he's a very grounded, calm influence on me
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He's 100% Italian, but grew up in France. So I think the Italian, their whole kind of concept of family
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and being together and meal times and sitting down together and talking and spending time with
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one another is was a whole new concept to me and that's just been lovely you know I was always like
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a sandwich on the run or you know picking up a coffee and living on caffeine all day and you know
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he like sets the table every lunchtime and we have to sit down and we will have our lunch and
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he's just such a civilized person and I don't know why he sees in me but like I remember the
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first time he set the table I was like oh I haven't made anything to eat like what are we gonna you
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just had your cheese and pickle sandwich oh I've got some beans in the cupboard maybe I can bang
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up like knock up some beans on toast or something and now it's like you know he's just very organized
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and very like plans ahead and that has just been such a great influence on me but also I'm
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spontaneous and a bit nuts and we do do some really fun things and so I do bring that element
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because otherwise it would be very kind of boring wouldn't it if every day we have the same routine
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everyone needs the person kind of like managing and securing the home and they need the person
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rolling the dice on the day yeah i mean he is he is like that like he is definitely the home body like he always hoovering like cleaning up and i very much out in the garden you know with my plants and and doing that side of things so we complement each other in that respect
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I've known obviously obviously for a long time but like we've worked together for a bit in and out
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don't know you personally but I feel a sense of kind of like contentedness in you like a calmness
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uh you know and I wonder just in terms of the advice you've been given throughout your life
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that's maybe got you to where you are what's the best piece of advice life advice that you were
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given and by who I mean career wise I think what I have to tell myself because you know regardless of
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you know how successful people think you are or how long you've been doing something you know you
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can still suffer from imposter syndrome at times and you can still you know wake up and not feel
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like hitting a red carpet or get to your radio show and feel like you've got nothing to give and
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you've not done anything interesting that day that people want to hear about 99.9% of my success
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is just showing up just get there if you can get there a bit like going to the gym like if you just
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get there like just trust the process and the rest will take care of itself because there's so many
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things in your head that like what you're doing you can't do this why are you doing this it's a
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waste of time and nothing's a waste of time it all adds to what you want what the long-term thing is
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and you've just got to trust the process. So I would just say, just show up. Just show up and give it a go
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I love that. Can you describe a moment where you showed up and you had all that trepidation, all that anxiety
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all that imposter syndrome, all that comparison culture, and you're sitting there and you turned up
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and you showed up for yourself. Can you describe a moment where it sort of just worked out
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in that moment? I mean, one of the biggest successes, I think
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is when I got a call to screen test for a show in America
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I wasn't living in America at the time and I hadn't thought about acting or doing anything like that
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and someone sent me a script and I read the script and I really related to the character
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and I thought, oh, I actually have a good take on this and I just I called my brother I said will you just come over and I just going to put myself on tape for this job and you know I hadn booked a job in America for many many years and and I just did it and I sent it off
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and that one decision turned out to be in the next three years of my life where I moved to the States
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I ended up working on a big show on NBC called One Big Happy it was an incredible chapter of my life
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for like three years and you know that only happened because I just kind of you know went for
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You never know what's around the corner. And I could never know in that moment what the next three years was going to be for me
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And then when that was over, I came back to the UK, met Jeremy and, you know, a new chapter began
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I think that's how I see my life. They're just different chapters, you know, and I love how different they have all been
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How nice is it when you can have different chapters, but then with the same person, the same characters
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Yeah. Like, I think that's a big shift. And I suppose right now in this moment, like, just kind of think about the one person, the one thing that you would ensure that matters the most to you
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Does it have to be on my body? It can be anything
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Well, my dog. If I can ensure my dog lived forever, because that little fluffy dog, my little Teddy, has just been fantastic
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He was like a lockdown puppy. And he's just my everything. like we walk together every day in the woods
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I love how we've started with how amazing Jeremy's been and now he's been used to by a dog
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Oh, no, yeah, the dog over Jeremy. He knows that and I think he would pick the dog over me as well
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Our dog is like, that's our love language is our dog. That dog is going to be heavily insured
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Jeremy, you're out. Everyone I work with says my dog has a better life than they do
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to be honest. Yeah, we look after him. Babe, it's a dog's life. Kelly Brooke
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it's been so lovely to chat to you you too thanks for having me yeah and thanks to Aviva
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and Hart for kind of holding space for this conversation yeah you know
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and I was going to do a dog impression then but I'm going to stop oh yeah I don't need to do that
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here's to Teddy to Teddy to Teddy
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