F1 legend Eddie Irvine had awkward date with Kelly Brook including hotel room "fumble"
dailystar.co.ukactor and model Kelly Brook.Irvine competed in F1 between 1993 and 2002, competing for Jordan, Ferrari and Jaguar. He finished runner-up in the 1999 Drivers’ Championship while with the Scuderia, showcasing his talent to secure four race wins while McLaren’s Mika Hakkinen romped to the title.Irvine was a renowned playboy, rumoured to have gotten close to the likes of Pamela Anderson, and Rod Stewart’s ex-wife Rachel Hunter in the past.
But despite his record on and off the track, Irvine failed to convert his date opportunity with Brook, who was a teenager at the time.Brook revealed all about her date with the F1 star in her autobiography 'Close Up' published in 2014, describing it as ‘the most awkward and uncomfortable’ date of her life.The pair first met at Silverstone when she was just 18 and Irvine was 32, with Brook recalling: “I stood next to him and smiled for the camera, and that was that.
But obviously he asked someone who I was and later called me.”During the phone call, Irvine reportedly attempted to woo Brook by suggesting he would fly from his home in Monaco on his private jet to take her to dinner in Rochester, her hometown.
However, Brook admitted she panicked and rather embarrassingly said she’d have to ask her mum first.“I was just freaked out,” the 42-year-old said. “I was living at home with my mum and dad, and knew nothing of private jets, let alone if you could land one at Rochester Airport.“I didn’t even know of a restaurant in Rochester where we could have had dinner, even if he did manage to land the jet.
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