Kelly's sumo challenge

Kelly Brook and Billy Zane at the Harrods' sale opening.
11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Glamorous actress Kelly Brook confessed today how she spent a romantic Christmas with her Hollywood star fiance Billy Zane - wrestling.

The celebrity couple stayed at an expensive stately home in Berkshire but ended up wearing inflatable sumo suits and taking part in bouts to while away the festive period.

Brook, 26, originally from Rochester in Kent but now living in Los Angeles, said her partner bought her a beautiful vintage necklace, jumper, shirt and a picture frame for Christmas.

In return she gave him a trilby hat from men's outlet Alfred Dunhill and a pair of inflatable sumo suits for both of them to wear.

The couple stayed at a suite at Cliveden, which has been home to royalty and the aristocracy but is now a hotel. and were joined by Brook's family for a while.

Speaking after launching the Harrods winter sale in Knightsbridge, central London, she said: "One of our many Christmas presents were some inflatable sumo suits."

Zane, who starred with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic, added: "Once we put them on, we tend to go at it. We were staying in a hotel suite, wrestling." Joking, he said: "Don't tell the hotel that."

The actress refused to say who won the bouts but, when pressed, replied: "Who do you think?"

She said her future projects included a role in a new series of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, due to be screened in February on ITV.

And she will be launching a new lingerie range for the high street store New Look in the New Year.

Brook denied rumours that she was hoping to land a role in EastEnders and said: "I loved doing Miss Marple. It was a period drama, a one-off in which I play a governess.

"I would rather do these one-off specials than commit to a soap. I don't think my lifestyle would cater for that."

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