{"id":181383,"date":"2025-11-15T03:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/181383\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:16:14","slug":"exposed-why-kelly-brook-loathes-sneering-snobby-ant-and-dec-im-a-celeb-insiders-are-already-whispering-about-kelly-problem-now-katie-hind-reveals-acid-war-of-words-and-disrespectful-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/181383\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposed: Why Kelly Brook loathes ‘sneering, snobby’ Ant and Dec. I’m A Celeb insiders are already whispering about ‘Kelly problem’. Now KATIE HIND reveals acid war of words – and ‘disrespectful’ Simon Cowell doesn’t escape either"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a grudge that Kelly Brook<\/a> was adamant she wouldn\u2019t ever let go of. When, as she saw it, Ant and Dec<\/a> pushed for her to get the sack from Britain\u2019s Got Talent in 2009, she was so furious she vowed never to speak to them again.<\/p>\n

She confided in me at the time that she thought they were snooty and didn\u2019t want to work with her because of her glamour modelling.<\/p>\n

But 16 years on she is to reunite with them on I\u2019m A Celeb, which they host and in which she stars as a contestant when it begins tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

It is likely to be a frosty reunion because it\u2019s the first time she has come face to face with them since she was unceremoniously axed as a judge on the ITV<\/a> talent show after just six days.<\/p>\n

\u2018Kelly might be all smiles, but underneath she is a tough, tough woman who doesn\u2019t take well to being crossed,\u2019 a friend of the star tells me.<\/p>\n

\u2018She doesn\u2019t forget. It is going to make for great television.<\/p>\n

\"Kelly <\/p>\n

Kelly Brook is due to reunite with Ant and Dec when she stars on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! which starts Sunday November 16<\/p>\n

\"British <\/p>\n

British TV presenting duo Ant and Dec are returning to present the 25th series of I’m A Celeb<\/p>\n

\u2018She thinks Ant and Dec sneered at her for being a Page 3 girl, they didn\u2019t think she had any talent.<\/p>\n

\u2018She\u2019s a down-to-earth working-class girl done good and she hates snobby behaviour. Woe betide Ant and Dec.<\/p>\n

\u2018She\u2019s already been telling journalists she can\u2019t wait to see them again.\u2019<\/p>\n

ITV sources say there is a strategy for the \u2018Kelly problem\u2019: Rather than ignore it, Ant and Dec are considering making a joke of it \u2013 although Kelly, 45, is unlikely to see the funny side.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Ant and Dec have attempted to clear the air.<\/p>\n

In their 2010 autobiography, Dec was candid about the feud, saying he could not understand why Kelly was hired as a fourth judge with Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. Previously, there had been three.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0was axed within a week when the format was deemed too complex. It went back to four judges later, though, with Alesha Dixon and David Walliams joining Simon and Amanda.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Kelly insisted Ant and Dec were behind her departure due to an awkward exchange. Dec wrote in their memoir, Ooh! What A Lovely Pair: \u2018Kelly looked nervous, so I told her it was going to be great fun and to just relax.<\/p>\n

\u2018She nodded, then looked at me and said, \u201cAnd what do you do on the show?\u201d. I looked at Simon, who was sat next to me, he turned to Kelly and said, \u201cKelly, you have seen the show, haven\u2019t you?\u201d To which she replied, \u201cYeah… well, bits\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t want to sound like an egomaniac, but the last person who said, \u201cAnd what do you do?\u201d was the Queen.\u2019<\/p>\n

They also said they were annoyed that they hadn\u2019t been consulted about her signing.<\/p>\n

Kelly hit back, saying: \u2018There was nothing I could do in this country after Britain\u2019s Got Talent. The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec and that was it. I would love to have stayed on the show.<\/p>\n

\"From <\/p>\n

From left, the stars of Britain’s Got Talent, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Kelly Brook, Piers Morgan and presenters Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly in 2009<\/p>\n

\u2018I really felt it was working out. Ant and Dec had never been anything but pleasant to my face but, clearly, they didn\u2019t want me on the show. Their egos are such that they were saying to themselves, \u201cHow dare she think she can come on to our show?\u201d, and since then they\u2019ve been very vocal about their displeasure.\u2019<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just Ant and Dec who should watch out in the jungle, but her co-stars, too, because, Kelly, is not known for holding back when she\u2019s annoyed.<\/p>\n

I should know. In 2015 I spent the afternoon with Kelly at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles where she was starring in a sitcom on NBC that was being produced by Ellen DeGeneres.<\/p>\n

Called One Big Happy, in which she played a British barmaid, it received much ridicule \u2013 especially from the British media.<\/p>\n

Kelly was furious. She let rip in an email to me about the apparent sexism of the UK Press for lambasting her performance while fawning over James Corden, who was successfully hosting The Late Late Show at the time. She ranted that his show only got a quarter of her show\u2019s viewers.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0arranged to meet. I arrived to find paparazzi outside the five-star hotel in the Hollywood Hills, and was mortified in case she thought I\u2019d set it up. When I told her it wasn\u2019t me, she said: \u2018Yeah, I know. It was me.\u2019<\/p>\n

Also on her hit list is Britain\u2019s Got Talent boss Simon Cowell, who\u2019d hired her to bring a touch of glamour to his show, and whom Kelly also blames for her unceremonious dumping just days later.<\/p>\n

She told me: \u2018He\u2019d turn up at 1pm when the judges had been told to get there for 9am. It was a joke, it was totally disrespectful to me, Amanda and Piers.<\/p>\n

\"\u2018Kelly <\/p>\n

\u2018Kelly might be all smiles, but underneath she is a tough, tough woman who doesn\u2019t take well to being crossed,\u2019 a friend of the star tells me<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019d just rock up whenever he wanted to. It was his party and he did what he wanted. I had never known anything like it before.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kelly was also keen to stress that Cowell, 66, had approached her about being on the show. She said: \u2018Everyone thought I chased Simon, desperate to be on the show, but… he called me the day before and asked if I\u2019d do it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Also on the receiving end of her acid tongue during our interview was Jude Law, who approached us looking scruffy. When he went to kiss her, she said rather loudly: \u2018Eugh, he f***ing stinks.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rugby star Danny Cipriani, whom she dated between 2008 and 2010 \u2013 and kicked out after he was caught cheating on her, was called every name under the sun.<\/p>\n

ITV bosses might also want to watch out for her potty mouth. In our interview we discussed her colourful love life and she asked me: \u2018Is there any gossip about me right now?\u2019 \u2018Well,\u2019 I told her, \u2018the word is you may be a lesbian.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kelly shrieked with laughter and went on to describe, in blush-inducing detail, just how much she loved being, well, heterosexual. I was dumbfounded.<\/p>\n

Friends tell me she is going into the jungle to win \u2013 which they put down to her background. She grew up on a council estate in Rochester, Kent where her late father Ken, a scaffolder, worked hard to provide for his family.<\/p>\n

Tears welled up as she spoke about her dad, who died of cancer in 2007 when she was in Strictly Come Dancing. She said: \u2018Dad was a grafter. He taught me that you have to work twice as hard, twice as many hours as everyone else… to be the best.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, this time, there is no way Ant and Dec will get in the way of her bid to be queen of the jungle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a grudge that Kelly Brook was adamant she wouldn\u2019t ever let go of. When, as she saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[118,18,117,96667,19,17,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-181383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-i","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115551547403786385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}