Former Web page 3 star Keeley Hazell discovered fame posing topless in newspapers and magazines within the early 00s. Nonetheless, her modelling profession would ultimately turn out to be a supply of disgrace

Keeley Hazell was one of many greatest names to come back out of the golden period of glamour modelling within the late 90s and early 00s. After profitable a contest to pose on Web page 3, the sweetness – and her bosom – lengthy grew to become a part of many paper-reading Brits’ mornings.

After profitable the Every day Star’s ‘Seek for a Seashore Babe’, Keeley would go on to be plastered on the quilt of a number of the most well-known grownup magazines – together with Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, Maxim and FHM.

Nonetheless, Keeley’s title is not considered one of simply nostalgia or one which was pinned to the bedrooms of the common teenage lad again within the noughties.

She’s gone on to have fairly the profession for herself away from posing topless for magazines. In mild of her latest e book ‘Everybody’s Seen My T**s: Tales and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist’, we have a look again on the ‘reality’ behind Keeley’s life and profession – together with the ‘tragic’ motive why she stop modelling.

‘Hated the eye’

Keeley received into glamour modelling when she was only a teen. After briefly working as a hairdresser, her pals inspired her to enter the Every day Star’s ‘Seek for a Seashore Babe’ on the age of 17, which she gained.

She would later additionally enter The Solar’s ‘Web page 3 Idol contest’ when she reached 18.

Keeley managed to win once more, and appeared within the newspaper. She bagged a one-year unique glamour modelling contract, £10,000 value of ‘attractive garments’ and a one-year membership for Rex cinema and bar.

This marked the start of Keeley’s success, the place she went on to recurrently star in a number of the greatest grownup magazines – together with Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, Maxim and FHM.

Reminiscing on the highs of her saucy job, Keeley stated: “I used to be travelling on a regular basis, and financially my scenario modified quite a bit. I used to be incomes some huge cash.

“On the time you do not realise and I look again and suppose ‘that was loopy.’

Within the peak of her modelling profession, Keeley might pull in £30,000-a-shoot. Nonetheless, with dwindling journal gross sales and cultural attitudes in the direction of Web page 3 altering, the mannequin later earned as little as £250 for a day in entrance of the digicam.

Whereas Keeley was reaping the advantages of being a glamour mannequin within the heyday of Web page 3, she’s received a really totally different outlook now on the age of 39.

Trying again, she feels she personally was “too younger” to pursue a profession in modelling. Chatting with The Instances, she stated: “Each time I posed topless, I felt so deeply embarrassed. I used to be crammed with disgrace. I used to be too younger and self-conscious.

“I hated how I regarded. I hated the eye.”

‘Hit all-time low’

Keeley determined to name a day on her modelling profession in 2009. Whereas many assumed that Keeley wished to pursue different profession avenues because of grownup mags turning into much less common and that she wished to combine issues up, the reality behind her reasoning was way more tragic.

The mannequin stopped showing topless and made her ultimate look in The Solar in 2009 after Keeley more and more grew to become “ashamed” and “embarrassed” of her job.

She revealed: “I simply felt: I don’t need to be seen on this mild. I don’t need to do that.”

She additionally discovered modelling troublesome to proceed with after a intercourse tape of involving her leaked again in 2007. Keeley delved into how the scandal impacted her life and her self-worth within the new e book, the place she candidly admitted: “It simply humiliating – it was devastating.

“I couldn’t cease it. The video unfold on-line like a extremely contagious illness. The ache and public humiliation had been insurmountable.

“The world assumed I wished it. The world thought I’d launched it.”

Keeley recalled seeing the story printed in newspapers on the time and felt like she had been “shot repeatedly” after seeing herself on the entrance cowl.

She added: “All of the sudden, in a matter of moments, my life is flipped the other way up. I’m on the quilt. … I can’t breathe. My lungs are tight. My fingers are shaking. I really feel like I’ve been shot repeatedly — simply bang. Bang. Bang. Bang”

Keeley felt at this second she had hit “all-time low.”

‘Reinvention’

Regardless of feeling like her life had been “flipped the other way up”, Keeley used this ache and channelled it into beginning a profession in performing. The mannequin used the cash she had constituted of the years as a Web page 3 lady and lads’ magazine common to spend money on performing classes throughout the pond.

And it actually paid off.

Keeley would ultimately land some small appearances in a string of roles in movies equivalent to ‘Like Loopy’, British gangster flick ‘St George’s Day’ and featured in Hollywood hit Horrible Bosses 2 alongside Jennifer Anniston.

Whereas these weren’t large roles, they helped Keeley dip her toe into the performing world, they usually gave her a variety of credit in established motion pictures.

Keeley would ultimately go on to star within the sport comedy-drama Ted Lasso the place she would play character Bex in seven episodes between 2020 and 2023.

She even ended up co-writing an episode of the hit collection. She managed to land the function due to her time on set for Horrible Bosses 2, the place she met co-star Jason Sudeikis, who ended up being the titular character in Ted Lasso years later.

In her e book, Keeley recalled how she initially bonded with Jason, whom she known as “gifted.” She wrote: “We mentioned the numerous challenges girls face. We spoke about fairly privilege and the way I’d benefited from it.

“We spoke in regards to the pitfalls of it.

“One way or the other, 5 hours handed, and when the director yelled ‘minimize’ for the final time, we had been nonetheless speaking – this time in regards to the script I’d written. It was a couple of British lady who strikes to Los Angeles after a really public scandal and tries to reinvent herself.”

Keeley ultimately had a quick relationship with Jason, though their romance fizzled out in 2022.