Editing Kelly Brook (section)

==Early life==
Brook was born Kelly Anne Parsons in [[Rochester, Kent]], the daughter of Sandra Kelly, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder.<ref>{{cite news |title=Grieving Kelly Brook vows to dance on after father dies of cancer |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/grieving-kelly-brook-vows-to-dance-on-after-father-dies-of-cancer-6664801.html |access-date=2 June 2020 |work=London Evening Standard}}</ref> She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/nov/01/kelly-brook-interview-elizabeth-day|title=Kelly Brook profile|work=The Guardian|location=[[UK]]|access-date=7 September 2010|date=1 November 2009|author=Elizabeth Day}}</ref> Kenneth Parsons died, aged 57, in Rochester from [[lung cancer]],<ref>[https://archive.today/20130114020857/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article/article-23426096-grieving-strictly-star-kelly-brook-attends-fathers-funeral.do Grieving Strictly star Kelly Brook attends father's funeral], thisislondon.co.uk; accessed 31 January 2016.</ref> on 26 November 2007, during Brook's time on ''[[Strictly Come Dancing (Series 5)#Additional information|Strictly Come Dancing]]''.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7118453.stm|publisher=BBC News|title=Grieving Brook to keep on dancing|date=29 November 2007|access-date=8 April 2008}}</ref> Brook attended the [[The Thomas Aveling School|Thomas Aveling School]] in Warren Wood, Rochester. In 1996, at the age of seventeen, she appeared in the second series of ''[[Fist of Fun]]'', the BBC comedy show from [[Stewart Lee]] and [[Richard Herring]] as a schoolgirl in a series of sketches entitled 'Teachers' (one of her co-stars was the young [[Daniel Mays]]). She studied at the [[Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts]]<ref name="conti">{{cite web |url=https://italiacontiplymouth.co.uk/about/alumni/ |title=Italia Conti Plymouth Alumni |work=italiacontiplymouth.co.uk |date=January 2013 |access-date=October 28, 2023 |archive-date=28 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028012209/https://italiacontiplymouth.co.uk/about/alumni/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> for three years, before becoming a professional model at the age of 16.<ref name="officialkellybrook.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialkellybrook.com|title=Official Kelly Brook site biography page|publisher=Officialkellybrook.com|access-date=12 January 2011|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101161201/http://www.officialkellybrook.com/|archive-date=1 January 2011}}</ref>