Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleTed 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. In fullTed Lasso star Keeley Hazell felt ‘voiceless’ during past topless modelling careerMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

As she brings her memoir to the Edinburgh festival, Keeley Hazell talks about trauma, exploitation, the hollowness of the high life – and her new career as a writer on Ted Lasso

‘There was so much exploitation, I was not emotionally or mentally prepared for it,’ the actor and writer has said