KELLY Brook has revealed a surprise connection she had with the late Tim Curry – saying she “owes her Hollywood career to him”.

The model and actress, 46, shared a touching tribute post to legendary actor Tim, who sadly at his £1.5million home in Toluca Lake, , aged 80.

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worked with the Rocky Horror Picture Show star on a movie when she was 19 which propelled her to Hollywood, where Tim set her up with his agent.

This led her to land various film and TV roles including The Italian Job, School for Seduction and Survival Island.

The Loose Women star thanked him “for making her dreams come true” and branded Tim a “class act”.

Kelly shared a black and white photo of Tim and wrote: “Lovely Tim Curry who I worked with many years ago on the Independent Movie Sorted.

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“He was so lovely to me and during our lunch break I told him I was going to LA for a couple of weeks to accompany a friend who had some meetings. I was 19-years-old.

“Tim kindly offered to introduce me to his then Manager Joan Hyler.

“I loved LA and luckily for me she took me on and represented me as an actress for many years alongside Andrew Ruff at Paradigm.

“This lead to me working on many movies and Warner Bros shows and various pilots.

“I did often think I owed my career in the USA to Tim Curry as it’s these sorts of introductions that change the course of your life.

“He was such a lovely, generous, kind man and so talented.”

She added: “I was always a huge Rocky Horror Fan. Joan also adored him. How lucky to have been able to spend time with such great actors and managers over the years.

“A class act if ever there was one RIP Tim Curry and thank you for making my dreams come true.”

A has revealed how medics responded just before Home Alone star Tim was found dead.

Dispatchers could be heard repeatedly confirming the beloved actor’s address and calling it an “ambulance death investigation”.

Los Angeles fire authorities also confirmed they responded to a medical call around 11.23pm to an address believed to be Curry’s on the night he died.

In the call, dispatchers can be heard saying: “Any North unit, ambulance investigation.”

First responders found the star at his home and he was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.

Tim’s – but he had previously battled serious complications for more than a decade following a that left him unable to walk in 2012.

It meant he was forced to take an extended break from acting after appearing in numerous films – including Clue and Muppet Treasure Island.

for his part as Dr Frank-N-Furter, the “sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania” in

The performance transformed him into a cult icon and launched a career spanning , and .

He later terrified audiences as in the 1990 adaptation of .

Tim also appeared in , Scary Movie and The Three Musketeers, among a string of other major roles.

He later returned to the big screen in 2024 with a role in horror Stream, marking his first feature film role in 14 years.