AceShowbiz - Model and actress Kelly Brook's Christmas plans came crashing down on her earlier this month when her tree collapsed.

The "Piranha 3-D" star was decorating her home with boyfriend Jeremy Parisi when he forgot to secure the evergreen they'd bought for her living room - and when she went to the door to greet a neighbour, it came tumbling down, smashing the expensive glass ornaments she had bought.

"I was so happy that he was in to it because I've always put the tree up with my girlfriend and we have Baileys and we make a whole day of it," the 39-year-old Brit told Heart FM. "So when Jeremy showed just a slight bit of enthusiasm for the day I thought, 'Oh Jeremy, this is all my dreams come true.' "

"So we went to the garden centre, we picked the most beautiful tree we could find, we came home, and he carried it over his shoulder in his rugged kind of chequered shirt. And there he is putting it up and it did look a little bit wonky... and I said, 'Are you sure it's secure?' and he says, 'Yes, yes it's really secure.' "

He then went to the gym, leaving Kelly to decorate the tree.

"I said, 'OK, by the time you get back I'll have the dinner on and the tree will be lit and it will be beautiful,' " she recalled.

"So there I am, by the way I did spend all my birthday money on Christmas decorations... I bought all these lovely glass things and started decorating the tree and there was a little knock at the door. So I've gone out to see to the door and as I've come back in, I couldn't see my tree (sic). He hadn't secured it properly. So it was on the floor and all my beautiful glass ornaments were smashed to smithereens."