I’ve filmed a Harry Potter style movie with Sam Neill, and will be seen in the upcoming series Irreverent, with PJ Byrne. “That was a hoot being chased by a giant flesh eating crab.
Hazel recently appeared in the hit Netflix comedy horror movie Love and Monsters with Teen Wolf heartthrob Dylan O’Brien. I’ve written plays, a memoir, and was awarded an Order of Australia for services to TV.” “I feel blessed to have had a fabulous life.and it continues. Then in 1995 I moved to the Gold Coast, where I’ve enjoyed a lovely life ever since.” I made costumes, performed and had a great time. My son Mark and I ran a dinner theatre in Byron Bay. “I became Paul Hogan’s neighbour and looked after a herd of 90 Angora goats. In 1973, completely exhausted from her hectic showbiz life, Hazel left Sydney and bought a 55 hectare farm in Bangalow, Northern NSW. I agreed to do The Set as I wanted to be a famous movie star,” she laughs.Īnother career first would come following a surprising guest role on the infamous TV drama series, Number 96 in 1973. Yes, I swam nude, but it was dark and audiences got a peek of my bottom when I got out of the pool. “The movie has since become something of a cult. In 1968 Hazel caused a sensation and shocked the nation when she swam nude in a controversial movie called The Set. He slammed into another car and I went through the windscreen. Hazel explains that her husband had picked her up after a gig, he’d been drinking and was driving erratically. I went from a loving marriage to a divorcee, I was given my own TV show, I won a Gold Logie (the second female to do so, after Lorrae Desmond), as well as a bronze Logie, and had miraculously survived a horrible car crash that saw me wind up with 120 stitches to repair by face.” In the 60’s Hazel was one of Australia’s most famous personalities, not only was she compering radio shows, writing newspaper columns, but she became the first woman to host her own daytime TV chat show, Girl Talk. It was a bittersweet time, because just as my TV career was taking off, my marriage collapsed after my husband had an affair with a dancer.” “I got to work with the greats like Maggie Tabberer and Dita Cobb. Her big TV break came in 1964 when she joined the now legendary daytime panel show Beauty & The Beast. Hazel worked in comedy and theatre, singing, dancing and playing piano. Sure it was closed circuit, but it was still television.” “In 1956 I entered a ‘Search For Miss TV’ contest and became the first woman appear on television in Australia. Money was tight, so it was while raising our boys that I started entering competitions to win anything,” recalls Hazel. “I married my husband Bill, a former carpenter turned TV director, in Sydney and we had two sons, Mark and Scott.
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