Loose Women’s Kelly Brook reveals the heartbreaking reason she hasn’t spent Christmas with her family for TEN YEARS – admitting ‘it’s a difficult time’

Kelly Brook has revealed she hasn’t spent Christmas with her family in 10 years.

The presenter, 45, made the heartbreaking admission on Wednesday’s Loose Women, saying she instead spends Christmas in France with her husband Jeremy Parisi’s family.

Kelly’s father Ken tragically died of cancer aged 57 in 2007 when the model was 27 years old. Since then, Kelly said her family has ‘branched off’, particularly over the festive period.

She said: ‘I feel like as I get older there’s always someone who was there last year that’s not there this year and it just becomes… I find it quite a difficult time.

‘I lost my dad in 2007, my mum’s got a new partner, she’s got a new life and my brother has his family… everyone’s just kind of branched off. 

‘I’ve created my family with my husband but we don’t have children and then you think what is Christmas without children?

Kelly’s father Ken tragically died of cancer aged 57 in 2007 when the model was 27 years old. Since then, Kelly said her family has ‘branched off’ (pictured with her mother Sandra in 2008)

‘We just go away. We leave the country. We spend a lot of time in France with his family… and it’s been wonderful actually to not have that stress.

‘I can’t remember family with my Christmas for the last 10 years. My family now is my husband. As long as I’m with him I don’t worry.

‘From the moment I lost my dad I really realised how precious life is. It’s not a guarantee that we’re going to live to be old, it’s a privilege if you do. My dad was only 57 when he died.’

Kelly and Jeremy want to become TV’s new power couple and believe their constant bickering makes them more ‘relatable.’

The couple previously criticised duos who force their on-screen relationship and ‘portray an unrealistic dynamic’ to audiences.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, the former actress insists she and Frenchman Jeremy, who she married in 2022, aren’t trying to be ‘perfect’, which sets them apart from existing TV partnerships.

After competing on BBC show Celebrity Race Across the World, Kelly says viewers were given an introduction to Jeremy, who spoke no English when he first moved to the UK. 

They starred in La Vita Italiana, a three-part mini-series filmed for ITV’s This Morning, which sees Kelly adapt to life at Jeremy’s family home and farm in Arpino.

The presenter made the heartbreaking admission on Wednesday’s Loose Women, saying she instead spends Christmas in France with her husband Jeremy Parisi’s family

Kelly said: ‘We leave the country. We spend a lot of time in France with [Jeremy’s] family…and it’s been wonderful actually to not have that stress’ (pictured in November 2024) 

And Kelly hopes the show will be commissioned for a bigger project as the couple sets their sights on a semipermanent move to rural Italy.

She said: ‘We’re just a normal couple. We’re not trying to be the perfect couple like a lot of TV duos try and portray an unrealistic dynamic.

‘But with us, we argue, and we get on and we love each other, we’re normal and relatable because we’re just like any other couple. It seems that during Race Across the World that’s how people saw us. It’s just who we are.’

Kelly fell for Jeremy after she reached out to him directly on Instagram and the pair connected over their mutual love of martial arts and fitness training.

During the early days of their romance, Jeremy spoke very little English, with French and Italian being his primary languages.

The radio host took on the role of translator and admits she can still speak on Jeremy’s behalf even now he’s fluent in English.

She said: ‘I know people think I talk over Jeremy all the time. That’s because I talk too much and when Jeremy first moved to the UK, he didn’t speak any English, so I became so used to talking for him and I’ve just not got out the habit of it.’