Sunday People

I want to be new Nigella ACTRESS MODEL’S DREAM TO BE DOMESTIC GODDESS

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Lockdown has also given Kelly, a Heart FM radio presenter, the chance to work on her gardening skills and mull over her future.

Kelly’s wants is to make a TV show inspired by the likes of Nigella and US domestic guru Martha Stewart. She said: “During this time I’ve realised my dream job is just to be home and work from home and make a nice, lifestyle TV show.

“Gardening and cooking, growing your own veg and fruit and stuff like that – and do something that’s a bit Nigella, a bit Martha Stewart.

“Have a few dogs and chickens running around and just have a dreamy TV show doing all the things you love to do.

“I don’t know if anyone would watch it but it would be my dream.

“If you’re a creative person, you’re never going to be bored in lockdown. You’ll always find things to do. I’m doing more than I ever did. I’m cooking more, cleaning more, out in the garden more.

“It makes me want to reach out and have that connection with people. I get it on the radio but it’s nice to do it in your own time.”

Kelly, who hosts Heart’s drive time and Saturday breakfast radio show, has proved time and again she does not rest on her laurels.

At just 16 the young beauty, born and raised in Kent, burst on to the modelling scene.

She worked with many big brands and was a regular in the pages of lads’ mags for many years.

She was voted FHMS Sexiest Woman in the World in 2005 and has also forged an acting career, starring in US TV show Smallville and films such as School for Seduction and Fishtales. Kelly got plenty of exposure in a 2010 creature feature Piranha 3D when she is attacked by killer fish after a naked porn swimming scene. She first dipped her toe into mainstream TV in January 1999, aged 19.

She was chosen to replace Denise Van

Outen on Channel 4’s

The Big Breakfast, presenting opposite

Johnny Vaughan.

Kelly left the show in July that year.

Critics said she was struggling to read the Autocue. Later she said: “I wasn’t really that experience­d, I was really young doing what I was doing. I was learning in the public eye and making mistakes for everyone to comment on.”

But despite the setback, Kelly’s career flourished and she has been determined to be herself and not be forced into conforming. She admits as a result she can be difficult to work with. She said: “I think confidence is really important for a job in the media – having a strong voice and not having that taken out of you.

“There’s a certain element of being

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