10:02am UK, Thursday January 02, 2003

Kelly Brook is being tipped to star alongside Tom Cruise in the new Mission Impossible movie.

The former bra model is reportedly in talks to play the female lead in the film.

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Brook: Mission Possible

Kelly, 23, is hot property in the US since landing a £150,000 role as a bitchy relative of Charlotte in the hit TV show Sex And The City.

A film insider told The Sun: "Paramount, who make Sex And The City and release the Mission Impossible films, love her and want her for the film.

"Bosses think she will be great as Cruise's love interest in MI:3.

"She's sexy and she can act. Scripts are just being finalised now."

The Mission Impossible role would complete Kelly's transformation from telly flop to Hollywood star.

The actress was sacked by Channel 4's Big Breakfast after a six-month stint in 1999.

Her first big acting break was in the Superman TV spin-off Smallville.

The brunette from Kent now lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend Jason Statham, who starred in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.