The Life Of Bryony - The Life of You – Keeley Hazell’s Must-Haves for Happiness and Balance

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

In this episode, Keeley Hazell returns for a lively, personal chat about the comforts and habits that bring her the most joy. Keeley shares how she stays grounded, her use of sport as an outlet, and the creature comforts she can’t be without. This conversation offers an intimate glimpse into the routines and little luxuries that matter most to her - essential listening for anyone curious about what keeps a creative life in balance. BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE 📚 Keeley’s Memoir, Everyone’s Seen My Tits, is available in all good bookshops from 26th August 2025.   WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU 🗣️ Got something to share? Text or send a voice note on 07796657512 - just start your message with LOB. 💬 Use the WhatsApp shortcut: https://wa.me/447796657512?text=LOB 📧 Prefer email? Drop me a line at [e-mail] If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who might need it – it really helps! Bryony xx   Credits:  Host: Bryony Gordon Guest: Keeley Hazell Producer: Laura Elwood-Craig & Henry Williams   Assistant Producer: Ceyda Uzun   Studio Manager: Sam Chisholm   Editor: Luke Shelley   Exec Producer: Mike Wooller    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the life of you. If you thought Keely Hazel had told all in the main episode, well, there's more. Today, she shares the three things she can't live without. I got a punching bag in my bedroom when I was 13, 14. I started punching it, and within 30 seconds, I was about to throw up. And so boxing became this kind of outlet. keep listening this is keely at her most honest and hilarious the three things that are vital to your well-being keely hazel there's too many now i've thought of more than three okay i would say therapy

okay that's good i think i think that's really crucial therapy, boxing. Can we talk about therapy just quickly? Yes. How long have you been having therapy for and how often do you still have therapy? Because I think people think of therapy as sort of something you have to do when you're in crisis. And then you come out of the crisis and you never do it again, whereas I am just constantly in therapy. Same.

I'm like you. I got court ordered to go to therapy when I was 14 or 15 after I'd been arrested. that was part of my sentencing was going to therapy. Wow. So I've had it from a really young age. And then I started doing therapy voluntarily when I was 18. Okay. That was the first time I went.

And I've had a few different therapists throughout the years. And in my 20s, I was in an hour therapy because it was all in person. And I would travel so much that I would take periods of time off. But I am very much of the mindset that, therapy is for the mind or working hours for the body. Yes. But I think it's like for me it's vital. It's like if I stop doing therapy, I notice.

I can't believe we missed out of the main episode, which I hope everyone has listened to. And if you haven't, you need to go and listen to it. I can't believe we missed out the bit where you were arrested on a night out. And you couldn't remember, you woke up in a police cell and you didn't know why because you were, had been in blackout. Yes. Yeah. What had you done? I can't remember now.

It was pretty bad when you just say it out, right? I got arrested for assault on two police officers. Okay, right. And you were 14? I was 14, 14 or 15. Okay. So you have the British criminal justice system to thank for your lifelong passion with therapy. Yes, yeah. It wasn't the same then as it was when I decided to go at 18, when I involuntarily went and sought out a therapist. was different because it was like I was being forced to be there I was like don't want to talk to you

don't want to tell you anything but I I think just naturally my personality is it's everything self reflection everything's trying to understand the world and then myself in it like why did I do that why did this happen it's like I really get off on that you're analytical yeah so your second thing is boxing. Yes. So when did you discover boxing? I got a punching bag in my bedroom when I was 13, 14. And I got it from the Argos catalogue and dragged it home.

It was so heavy. Yeah, it was a punch bag. It was so, it was like so heavy. But I put it up on my wall and I started punching it. And within 30 seconds, I was about to throw up. But that was for me, like, I think, and I hate saying masculine in this, but I have always just delved into anger versus, like, vulnerability. I never, as a teenager, I didn't cry.

It was like, I'll be really angry. Okay. And so boxing became this kind of outlet. And still is. And still is, yeah. Yeah, I do with, I process a lot of emotions in boxing. And even just like, I'll go into the gym and I'll work with, I'll be on the speedbag.

And that's like meditation for me. I'll be like 20 minutes just doing this, doing that. And my brain is clear. Do you cry at all anymore? Do you cry at all now? Yeah, cry all the time. Okay. No, I cry so much now.

And sometimes even like working out with I box, I'll cry. But then I just felt like crying was a sign of weakness. Okay. And so that's when I say masculine and I hate using it in that term is that the, The way that I viewed vulnerability or crying was just, that's weakness. And I immediately went to anger, which was not what girls did or women do. They always have a hard time getting into anger. And I'm like, oh, I've got that.

It's easy for me. Yeah, it's easy for me. When they send people to those rooms, like smash things up, they're like, you need to kind of tap into your anger. And I'm like, oh, I don't need to tap it. Like, give me the baseball bat. Let's go. I've got that. Okay.

Therapy in box. I want to know what number three is. Chocolate. Oh, okay, yeah. Which is kind of like a therapy in some sort of way, I think. Now, obviously, I need to know what kind of chocolate. You can't just say chocolate and leave it at that. What is your go-to chocolate of an evening when you kind of,

you've done the boxing, you've done the therapy, you're on the sofa, you're settling in for a night of relaxation. What would be the ideal chocolate that you're hitting up? I would say what I get the most is the healthy one, which is the hue dark chocolate hazelnut butter. But that's because it makes me feel like it's not bad. I'm like, oh, this is so great. It's like there's no refined thing, soy or cluedin or whatever,

like the whole no list on the front. So I feel great when I'm eating it. But if we're talking, you know, like I'm not concerned about that. And I'm just going in. Yeah. That's the one I want to know about. It's a mix. I love a toblower.

Yes. Can't beat a toadreau. I love a to-bo-I-I-just had a twirl the other day and it was like heaven. And I got it in the train station in like a vending machine. And I was like, this is probably the best thing that's ever happened to me is eating this twelf. I love a mint arrow. Oh, no, that's controversial. Really, why?

I just, I don't know. I just feel like mint and chocolate shouldn't be put together. They're two separate tastes. and flavour sensations that should be experienced separately. I love them. I love min and chocolates together. Minero and what else is there's so much? Have you tried now this is, and this is not my plea for this podcast to be sponsored by Tony's chocolate only.

I thought what you were going to say, Tony. But there's just something about it. It's so good. I like how it forces you to have a bigger piece than you ordinarily would. because you can't break it neatly. So you're like, oh, no, oops. Accidentally, I've had half a giant chocolate bar. May as well have the rest as well now.

Exactly. I know you can't open one of those bars without eating, hold it. It's like that's just part of it. You've got to go in. But Tony's is so good. But I don't know what it is about. Even just like, I get the milk chocolate all the time and I'm like, this is just heaven.

Have you tried the one that's a mixture of all the Tony's chocolateonies in one bar? Yeah. That's for an addict like me, Manor from fucking heaven. Yes. I've even been in Amsterdam, you can make your own. What? Like a whole Tony's, like, factory or whatever it is.

And you go in and you like select and say, oh, I want to put this and you get your own bar. Let's go there now. Let's leave. Okay. Bye. That's a wrap on our bonus chat with Keelie Hazel. If this peek behind the curtain made you.

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