Shane Warne’s daughter has revealed she only found her ‘path’ after her father’s shocking death last year.
Brooke Warne, 26, has built a following on social media and creates food and fashion content, with hundreds of thousands of fans watching her ‘Cook with Brooke’ and ‘Get Ready with Me’ videos on TikTok.
Brooke, the eldest of Warne’s three children, worked a number of jobs when she was younger but says she has finally found her calling.
“I think people underestimate how hard it is to be a content creator or influencer,” she told Sunrise.
‘It’s not a 9 to 5 job, where you start work at 9am and finish at 5pm. Sometimes you photograph on the weekend, sometimes you photograph after hours.
Shane Warne’s daughter has revealed how she found her calling as an influencer
“But it’s all part of it and I’m really enjoying it and I’m very grateful to be in the position I’m in.”
She added that “Cook with Brooke” sparked her passion for cooking.
“I think it’s my found passion,” she said of the initiative.
‘For years I worked in the catering industry, delivering pizzas, organizing events, everywhere in the store. I never really knew what I wanted to do and more or less found my way over the past eighteen months. I’m really happy with what I’m doing at the moment.
“I think from an early age I was always passionate about food, passionate about how food brings people together.”
Australia and the wider cricket world were rocked by Warne’s death in early 2022 and Brooke has revealed how the support of family and friends has been crucial to her.
‘I think we’re doing well. “I am very grateful for the family and friends I have around me,” she said.
“I think the most important thing is, if you surround yourself with good people, you’ll be fine.”
Her younger brother, Jackson, recently opened up about the moment he learned of his father’s death.
“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget where I was or what I was doing,” Jackson said.
‘Because all you get is a phone call. And then when you hang up the phone call, your life that you’ve been living, your whole life, everything you’ve ever known was pretty much like this, just gets whizzed, completely turned upside down.
Brooke Warne, 26, makes cooking and fashion videos on social media platform TikTok
‘Who am I going to ask for advice now? Well, wait a minute, you’re telling me I can never see him again? Your mind is doing 100 million thoughts an hour and you’re thinking, ‘What?’. You’re just in complete shock.
“You’re having all these thoughts, and you’re letting out the tears, that you’re just sitting in silence. I was with my girlfriend, my sister Brooke and her partner, and then with my mother. And we just got the call, hung up the phone and sat in silence for hours. And then our grandparents came over, and then some other friends and family came.
“But I remember very vividly, you know, when I saw my phone and who was calling, I was like, ‘Well, wait a minute.’ He’s with my father. Very strange that he called me and not my father.’ And then yes: ‘S***, it’s real’. And then you just continue enjoying a complete shock.
‘You don’t want to accept it. Like I’m still convinced, and it may sound crazy, but I’m convinced that I’ll have at least one more conversation with my father, like I don’t know if it’s in a dream or somewhere else. I’m confident I’ll talk to him at least one more time, because there’s no way I can’t talk to him about poker, or St Kilda Football Club or doing any of the hobbies we used to have all the time.
Brooke revealed how the support from family and friends helped her cope with the loss of her father, Shane
‘There’s no way I can’t talk to him about it. And I can tell you about a dream that may sound bizarre, but it might have been two weeks or two and a half weeks after my father passed away and I was driving my car. He was driving his car. And we didn’t used to race, we just rode next to each other and, you know, raced a little bit.
‘But he was always the better driver in the better car. So (he) used to hit me, all the time. And in this dream I had, I was driving my car, he was driving his car, we were both looking at each other left and right and driving and driving.
‘And then suddenly our cars merged, and I was behind the wheel of his car. And then I looked to my left, and he wasn’t there. And then I woke up a little bit and I remember that dream very vividly.”