‘Topless modelling never aligned with me’: inside Everyone’s Seen My Tits, the play by a former page 3 model

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‘Topless modelling never aligned with me’: inside Everyone’s Seen My Tits, the play by a former page 3 model

The Guardian · 2 hours ago

Keeley Hazell, once one of Britain's most recognisable glamour models, is bringing a stage adaptation of her memoir, Everyone's Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist, to the Edinburgh fringe. She discusses how her time as a Page 3 and lads' mag model in the mid-2000s left her feeling exploited and unprotected, describing writing the book as a way to reclaim a voice she felt she lacked during that period of her career.

Hazell, from Lewisham, was scouted at 16 while working in a hair salon and unwittingly entered the Daily Star's "beach babe" competition before winning the Sun's "Page 3 idol" contest, launching her modelling career. She recalls a stark contrast between her council estate upbringing and the wealth that followed, alongside a lack of safeguarding, feelings of exploitation and numbness that she coped with through drinking. She later left modelling in her early 20s, moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting, and has since become a writer on the television series Ted Lasso.

  • Ex-Page 3 model Keeley Hazell adapts her memoir for Edinburgh fringe stage show
  • She describes feeling exploited and unprotected during her modelling career
  • Hazell left modelling for acting in LA, now writes for Ted Lasso

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