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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Billy Zane is "proud" of his ex-fiancée Kelly Brook.

    The 49-year-old actor has confessed he's happy his former flame looks set to crack Hollywood with her latest role in Ellen DeGeneres' new sitcom 'One Big Happy'.


    He said: "I feel incredibly proud. I always knew she had a knack for comedy.

    "It is nice to see she is well within her sweet spot right now. I think the audiences will be thoroughly charmed."

    The 'Titanic' star - who got engaged to the 35-year-old beauty after meeting her on the set of their film 'Survival Island' before they called time on their four year relationship in 2008 - tried to help Kelly make it as an actress in the US when they were still together, with her securing roles in the films 'Three' and 'Deuce Bigalow:

    European Gigolo'.

    However, Kelly appeared to have turned her back on her Hollywood dreams until she auditioned for the role of free-spirited British girl Prudence in the NBC comedy.

    Billy told The Sun newspaper: "Credit to Kel she was doing some fabulous films prior. Maybe 'Three' was maybe a breakout for her Stateside.

    "She is wonderful and I just commended her on the success as I remember seeing an ad for her show on the Super Bowl which was no small thing.

    "And with Ellen DeGeneres you couldn't ask for a better producer or champion. It is well deserved."

    Asked if he would consider performing a cameo alongside his former partner, he joked: "Potential trouble maker perhaps - that sounds like me."

    Billy's congratulations come after Kelly slammed her ex-fiancé in her autobiography 'Close Up' last year.

    She wrote: "[Billy] wanted me either to look like a 1960s Bond girl or a 1950s housewife. That's how he saw me. I felt I had to find out who I was and what my own style was anyway, but it was controlling.

    "He projected all his fantasies on to me. I never had a real life with him. I was always in a fantasy fairytale."

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