Kelly Brook Denies 2009 Ant and Dec Feud With No Awkwardness

Kelly Brook said there was “no awkwardness at all” with Ant and Dec over her brief 2009 spell as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. The remark cuts against years of claims that the pair were unhappy about her recruitment.

“There was no awkwardness at all,” Brook said in a conversation with The Sun. She added that Ant and Dec are “the sweetest,” and said “they were so excited that I was doing the show.”

2009 BGT casting row

Brook’s short time on the ITV talent show has been a talking point because Ant and Dec were reportedly displeased that she had been brought in without their approval. Brook said she thought the hosts were heavily involved in the casting, which makes the dispute sound less like a set clash than a breakdown in expectations about who gets a say on a prime-time panel.

In 2010, Ant and Dec addressed the first day of Brook’s run in their autobiography, Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story. They wrote: “Kelly looked nervous, so I told her it was going to be great fun and to just relax and enjoy it.” The book also recalled Brook asking, “And what do you do on the show?” and their reply: “Yeah... well, bits” — a line that reads more teasing than hostile, even if the old feud talk has persisted.

Ant, Dec and Brook

Brook said she saw the duo again last year on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, when she was more focused on “snakes, spiders and the lack of food!” than any old tension. “I was in a helicopter looking down at them,” she said, adding: “I actually got star-struck, even though I worked with them all those years ago.”

The cleaner read is that the story now sits with Brook’s version, not the rumor mill. For viewers, the useful detail is simple: the alleged split over Britain’s Got Talent no longer looks like a live issue, and Brook is on the record saying the relationship was friendly rather than frosty.

May 2 on ITV

Brook appears as a guest on James Martin's Saturday Morning on May 2, while the current series of Britain's Got Talent continues that night at 7pm. That keeps her back in the same ITV orbit where the old dispute started in 2009, but this time the headline is her denial, not the feud.