Kelly Brook: Ant and Dec were the reason I left Britain's Got Talent

Kelly Brook has blamed her sudden departure from Britain's Got Talent on hosts Ant and Dec.

Egos: Kelly Brook and Ant & Dec didn't see eye to eye

The TV presenter joined the ITV talent show's judging panel in January this year at the request of creator Simon Cowell, but was sacked six days later and was told the four-judge format was "too complicated".

But the former model today claimed that Ant, 33, and 34-year-old Dec - full names Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - were the reason behind it after they admitted that she was "wrong from the start".

Brook, 29, said: "The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec and that was it.

"I would love to have stayed on the show. I really felt it was working out. Ant and Dec had never been anything but pleasant to my face but, clearly, they didn't want me on the show.

"Their egos are such that they were saying to themselves How dare she think she can come on to our show?', and since then they've been very vocal about their displeasure at me being there."

They duo claimed in their autobiography that she hadn't even watched one single episode after she asked them what they did on the show.

A few weeks after her departure, Donnelly admitted: "We were angry about Kelly. But it was because no one asked our opinion. What was upsetting was that it happened in the first place. It was wrong from the start."

But Brook said she was shocked at their behaviour especially as her fellow judges, Amanda Holden, and Piers Morgan, were very welcoming.

She said: "Amanda Holden was put into a very difficult position because the press were trying to make out that it was Amanda versus Kelly, like they did with Cheryl and Dannii Minogue on X Factor, but she was very supportive."

And she said Cowell admitted to her: "You don't even want to know what was going on behind the scenes. It is just a case of some people not wanting you there."

"And that's what it was all about - a clash of egos. My ego was dented, but it didn't affect the way I am or how I feel about the industry.

"As for Ant and Dec, good luck to them. They are rich and they are happy, but they won't be in my autobiography, even if I am in theirs!"