KELLY BROOK - KELLY REVEALS STRICTLY PARTNER FEARS

New Strictly Come Dancing belle Kelly Brook has admitted her anxiety over being paired with love rat Brendan Cole.

The model turned actress says that upon hearing she was to be partnered with Cole she reacted by saying "please, not Brendan".

But ahead of the show's return on BBC1 tonight, the 27-year-old claims her fears over her dance partner's ladies' man reputation were unfounded.

"As it's turned out, we get on very well," Brook told the Daily Mirror.

"We're the same age, we've got the same taste in music and we're both competitive. We want to create great chemistry and have people thinking: 'Oh God! They're definitely at it!'."

The former Big Breakfast presenter also reassured fiancee Billy Zane that the Titanic actor had nothing to worry about.

"I told Billy I was teamed up with this guy who had a reputation but was actually very nice. Brendan is far more vulnerable than he lets on," she added.

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly reprise presenting duties for the first episode of Strictly Come Dancing's fifth series tonight, which features celebrities John Barnes, Penny Lancaster-Stewart and husband and wife duo Kenny and Gabby Logan.