Brooke played representative rugby for Auckland, and made his All Blacks debut in June 1992 against Ireland.
As of 2010[update], he owned a New World supermarket in Warkworth, New Zealand.
In 2010, Brooke made a televised apology for allegedly groping a 15-year-old girl and grabbing her male friend by the throat whilst on holiday in Fiji.
As part of a settlement he also made a contribution to charity and agreed to attend alcohol counselling.
This biographical article relating to New Zealand rugby union, about a person born in the 1960s, is a stub.