Kelly Brook, 44, stuns in zebra print bikini during summer heatwave

Kelly Brook showed off her incredible curves on Wednesday as she made the most of the current heatwave, after revealing she’s quit acting for good. 

The TV and radio presenter, 44, looked stunning in a zebra-striped bikini set as she struck a pose while relaxing in a local park with her husband, Italian model Jeremy Parisi. 

With temperatures continuing to soar across the UK and mainland Europe, Kelly strategically sat beneath the shade of a large tree while staying cool beneath a wide-brimmed summer hat. 

The post comes after the British star, who presents the biggest daily Drive Time show in London on Heart FM, admitted she’s given up much of her film and TV work because she was a ‘terrible actress.’ 

The model turned TV and radio presenter began her on-camera career 28-years ago, with her varied portfolio even including a shirt stint in Hollywood. 

Kelly Brook showed off her incredible curves on Wednesday as she made the most of the current heatwave, after admitting she’s quit acting because she was a ‘terrible actress’ 

Kelly’s acting career included a brief stint in Hollywood, during which she starred in the 2010 flop Piranha 3D (pictured) 

However, Kelly explained the multiple reasons for her decision to ‘leave the acting thing’, as she admitted: ‘I was a terrible actress.’

She told The Daily Star: ‘I’m going to leave the acting thing. I don’t like being away from home for too long.’

‘I like sleeping in my own bed and I’ve got my dog to look after. I was a terrible actress. I find it quite exhausting.’

‘I’m such a big personality so I always find it quite a struggle to be somebody else. They’d tell me I was married to someone and after two weeks in my mind I believed I was married to them. It was a terrible situation.’

‘I can’t imagine turning around to Jeremy and saying, ‘I’m off for six weeks and I’m going to pretend to be the lover of Ryan Reynolds, is that OK?’ I don’t think that would bode well. I don’t think my husband would be down with that.’

Kelly started her acting career in 1996, at the age of seventeen, when she appeared as a schoolgirl in the second series of BBC comedy show Fist of Fun.

In 2000, the actress made her big-screen debut with a minor role in the British horror film Sorted. A year later, she appeared in the slasher film Ripper.

Dipping back into television work, in 2001, Kelly appeared in four episodes of Smallville.

In 2005, she starred in ill-fated erotic desert island thriller Three, where she met her ex-fiance Billy Zane (Pictured in the movie)

In 2006, Kelly starred in an Agatha Christie’s Marple drama on ITV (Pictured)

In 2003, she had a brief role as Seth Green’s girlfriend in The Italian Job, which starred her then-boyfriend Jason Statham.

She then secured her first leading role in Brit indie film School For Seduction, in which she played an Italian temptress.

In 2005, she starred in ill-fated erotic desert island thriller Three, where she met her ex-fiance Billy Zane. Despite a West End premiere, the film was panned by critics and went straight to DVD in America.

The couple teamed up again for another water-themed movie Fishtails, a romance in the same vein as Splash which saw Kelly playing a mermaid.

They brought the film to Cannes, but it also failed to make an impact and only received a limited release in UK cinemas and went straight to DVD in the US.

In 2006, Kelly starred in an Agatha Christie’s Marple drama on ITV and in 2009 appeared as herself throughout the second series of ITV’s Moving Wallpaper.

She is now poised to star in new ITV reality show La Dolce Vita with husband Jeremy Parisi 

The programme will follow Kelly and husband as they leave London for farm-life in rural Italy  

In 2010, Kelly starred in horror film Piranha 3D, which grossed an admirable $83million worldwide.

That same year, the actress was lined up to star in Hotel Caledonia, about backpackers working at an isolated Scottish hotel.

However the film was was canned after the movie’s biggest names – Gillian Anderson and Jaime Pressley – pulled out.

In 2012, Kelly played herself in Keith Lemon: The Film, which took £4million in the UK box office, despite being universally panned.

In May 2015, Kelly’s NBC American sitcom – One Big Happy – was cancelled after just six episodes, due to dismal ratings.

Viewers will watch them set up life on Jeremy’s family farm, which is where they married in 2022

‘The most incredible, creatively challenging and most rewarding job I have ever had,’ she wrote in a social media post at the time, as she bid farewell to the short-lived series.

One Big Happy – which also starred Elisha Cuthbert – centered around the life of a gay woman who was pregnant with her best friend’s baby.

At the end of 2015, Kelly appeared in the MTV comedy drama film Taking Stock in which she played the lead character, Kate.

The Bonnie and Clyde-inspired flick tells the story of recently-redundant retail assistant Kate who forges a plan to rob the shop that forced her to give up her job.

In 2019, Kelly made the movie to radio when she joined Heart FM as a co-host with JK (Jason King).

She is now poised to star in new ITV reality show La Dolce Vita with husband Jeremy Parisi.

The programme will follow Kelly and husband as they leave London for rural Italy.

Viewers will watch them set up life on Jeremy’s family farm, which is where they married in 2022.

Kelly stars in celebrity Race Across The World, which returns at 9:00pm on Wednesday, 14 August on iPlayer and BBC One.