- Ted Lasso star Keeley Hazell has spoken about her past career as a model for lads' magazines like Nuts and FHM , describing it as an exploitative experience that left her feeling "voiceless".
- Hazell, who played Bex in Ted Lasso and is also a staff writer on the show, found fame as a topless model in 2003 after winning a "beach babe" competition.
- She explained that she was "so young" and "not emotionally or mentally prepared" for the industry, highlighting a lack of protection for women entering it.
- Hazell is now giving herself a voice through an upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show and a 2025 memoir titled Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist .
- After leaving modelling in 2009 to study acting, Hazell transitioned to roles in films and later became a staff writer for Ted Lasso, a show for which she also served as inspiration for the character Keeley.
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