“Kelly Brook has spoken about dumping Jason Statham as he hit the big time in Hollywood (Picture: Stewart Cook/ Shutterstock) Kelly Brook has admitted to punching ex-boyfriend Jason Statham after allegedly catching him flirting with a ‘sexy’ Hollywood star. The Big Breakfast star and former glamour model, 45, dated the Fast & Furious star from”, — write: metro.co.uk
Kelly Brook has spoken about dumping Jason Statham as he hit the big time in Hollywood (Picture: Stewart Cook/ Shutterstock) Kelly Brook has admitted to punching ex-boyfriend Jason Statham after allegedly catching him flirting with a ‘sexy’ Hollywood star.
The Big Breakfast star and former glamour model, 45, dated the Fast & Furious star from 1998 until 2004 – with the couple also becoming engaged before their relationship ended.
She then chose to break up with Jason, 58, after they moved to the US together, just as his career was taking off.
While she’s now been with her husband – Italian model and actor Jérémy Parisi – since 2015, Kelly recently appeared on the How to Fail podcast, where she shared details about her high-profile relationships over the years.
Back in 2014, when she released her memoir, Close Up, she detailed a particularly tense exchange between herself and Jason when he flirted with Hollywood A-lister Gwyneth Paltrow while attending Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s wedding.
‘Jason started to swing his hips from side to side and do a little jive with his arms, saying: “Gywnnie, Gwynnie, Gwynnie. Sexy, sexy, sexy!.. He turned round, only to be met with my fist in his face,”‘ she said.
The former glamour model has had high-profile relationships over the years (Picture: Anthony Harvey/ Shutterstock) 
She dated the action star from 1998 until 2004 (Picture: Jean-Paul Aussenard/ WireImage for Bragman Nyman Cafarelli) 
Kelly claimed she punched Jason when she caught him flirting with Gwyneth Paltrow (Picture: Saira MacLeod/WWD via Getty Images) While on the podcast, Kelly spoke about setting boundaries after being a ‘people-pleaser’, Kelly said she’d become more ‘selfish’ as she’d grown older.
Asked by host Elizabeth Day what that involved before she met her husband – whom she married in 2022 – Kelly spoke about her relationship with Jason.
‘I think definitely in my first relationship, there was definitely elements of co-dependency. And there was elements of me putting my career and my life on hold. I had a really good job at MTV, where I was hosting a daily show, which was just after I got fired from The Big Breakfast.
‘I got a really great show at MTV and was there for about a year and my boyfriend at the time was an actor. I remember he got offered a few roles in things, it was like a bouncer on the door in EastEnders doing something.
‘He had so much talent and charisma, and I was like, “you know what, we have to go to America”,’ she recalled.
Kelly went on to share that that she watched Jason’s career ‘flourish’, while hers started to ‘flounder a bit’ because she didn’t have the same opportunities.
She eventually ‘fell out of love because he hadn’t showed up’ (Picture: Dale Wilcox/ BEI/ Shutterstock) ‘I was just kind of flying back and forth between the UK and LA. It was quite taxing and expensive and exhausting,’ she said.
‘His career just took off and it just became the most incredible thing. But because I did so much and didn’t look after myself, I didn’t look after myself. I just felt so neglected in that dynamic. And to the point where actually, I fell out of love with him in the end because he hadn’t showed up for me like I’d showed up for him.
‘So, we broke up. And I think he just turned around to me and was like “why are you leaving now?” Like “look I’m a movie star and millionaire, why now?”. And I was like “you just haven’t been there”.’
Reflecting on her decision to walk away, Kelly said that Jason ‘hadn’t been there’ for her, adding she felt the ‘need to become a woman.’
‘During this process, I became a woman, and I don’t think he knew who I was anymore. It was a really hard time. But I think it was the first time where I really kind of did something for mysel,f and it was the best decision.’
Questioned by the host if ‘this person was Jason Statham?’, she responded: ‘Yes, I think everyone kind of knows. I’m not saying anything that isn’t in the public domain anyway.’
She’s now married to Italian model and actor Jeremy Parisi (Picture: Dave Benett/ WireImage) 
Jason Statham has been in a relationship with model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley since 2010 (Picture: Saira MacLeod/ WWD via Getty Images) Jason later went on to meet model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 38, with whom he’s been in a relationship since 2010 and shares two children.
After being cast in Guy Ritchie’s films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, his career took off, and he later went on to appear in The Bank Job, The Expendables, and Fast & Furious.
He has since been credited with leading the resurgence of action films during the 2000s, with his movies grossing over $8.5billion (£6.4billion). The actor is now estimated to be worth around $100million (£76million).
In the How to Fail interview, Kelly also spoke about the ‘interesting chapter’ of dating younger men when she was in her thirties.
‘I think that was more of my maternal side coming out,’ she said. But Kelly added she believed that ‘those guys were probably with me for the fact I was on television and a famous woman’.
After breaking up with Jason, Kelly dated rugby players Thom Evans, 40, and Danny Cipriani, 38.
Kelly is one of the campmates on the new season of I’m A Celebrity (Picture: ITV) In 2010, she met her now-husband after stumbling across a photo of him online.
‘I thought he was the most beautiful looking man I’d ever seen,’ she said.
After following him on social media, the pair started chatting and were friends for six months before romance eventually blossomed.
Although Jeremy didn’t speak English when they met, Kelly said he learnt it fluently when they started talking. ‘He just made so many sacrifices to be with me, which were, in my eyes, just the sheer definition of love. We are 10 years in now. It’s been the most incredible 10 years of my life.’
This weekend, she will also be seen on screens again in the upcoming season of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. While she is ‘terrified’ of the challenge, Kelly added she was looking at it as an ‘empowering’ way to tackle her phobias.
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