Kelly Brook stuns viewers as she reveals her REAL name on Celebrity Race Across The World

Kelly Brook left viewers stunned after the opening episode of Celebrity Race Across The World on Wednesday when she revealed her real name.

The 44-year-old glamour model joined forces with her husband Jeremy Parisi to take on three celebrity friends in a race across South America in the new series of the BBC show.

But during the episode, Kelly surprised fans by joining Jeremy in planning their next move after reaching the first checkpoint in Brazil, revealing that Brook wasn’t her real name.

The Heart FM presenter was born Kelly Anne Parsons, but took the surname Brook when she started her modelling career.

She added that although she is known by that name, it was never entered in her passport.

She said: ‘My happy place is in my garden, in my boots, with no make-up, with my hair up. If I think I’m a pin-up and I’m making calendars, it’s all an illusion, like it’s not who I am at all.’

‘Kelly Brook doesn’t actually exist, it’s not even a real name, it’s never even been in my passport or anything. In my mind I’m Mrs Parisi, Jeremy’s wife.’

It was a revelation that left some viewers stunned. X posted messages including: ‘Kelly Brook is not her real name!!!’

‘Kelly Brook isn’t Kelly Brook’s real name?’

In the second season of the series’ spin-off, which stars celebrities like Ted Lasso and iconic TV hosts, they compete against each other to reach their final destination without the help of phones or money.

Ted Lasso’s Kola Bokinni and his cousin Mary Ellen will take on TV presenter and announcer Jeff Brazier and his son Freddy, 20, along with Kelly, Jeremy and Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills and his current husband Sam Vaughan.

With a budget of just over £1,000, their journey starts in Belém, northern Brazil – the gateway to the Amazon – and passes through five checkpoints across South America.

They will do everything they can to reach the finish in the Andes, Frutillar in southern Chile.

Elsewhere in the episode, Jeff storms off after he and his son Freddie have a very tense conversation, just hours into their month-long trip.

The TV presenter was furious after the 19-year-old claimed the family did not speak openly to each other and that was why he ‘kept his mouth shut’.

Freddie decided not to tell his father that he wanted food from the cafe, so Jeff tried to reassure him by saying that they should split their budget.

Saying: ‘You don’t have to do things in silence, it just makes life easier for us as a family if we’re all honest’

Freddie interrupted: ‘I don’t think we’re even open as a family. I’m staying quiet because I feel like everyone else is.

Jeff angrily asked, “Are you kidding me? Freddie, don’t be unfair, what have I been doing for the last seven or eight years?”

“Talk,” Freddie replied, smiling nervously.

Jeff responded curtly, “Well, don’t say I don’t do it, take responsibility, that’s part of it!” before walking away, leaving his son alone at the table.

Jeff shares Freddie and Bobby, 21, with the late Big Brother legend Jade Goody, who died in 2009 at the age of 27 from cervical cancer.

Earlier in the episode, he revealed that he signed up for the show in an effort to help his youngest son gain “more self-esteem.”

Freddie turned out to be alive and while it was “cute,” Jeff said he would need an “exit plan” soon. Freddie admitted, “I still need my dad.”

Jeff then candidly told the camera, “I’ve seen my son struggle, I know he needs more purpose, self-esteem and confidence.”

Addition: ‘So something like [Celebrity Race Across The World]We will of course seize this opportunity with both hands.

Celebrity Race Across The World airs every Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.