Hazel Keech

Keech was born on 28 February 1987 in Essex, England, to a British father and an Indo-Mauritian Hindu mother with ancestry from the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar belt. She did her schooling at Beal High School in Redbridge, London, where she performed in stage shows and learned various forms of dance including Indian classical, British dance and western contemporary. Keech became involved in television, film and stage. She danced in the British programme Agatha Christie's Marple. The BBC documentary show Call The Shots showed her working in Hindi films. She joined the team of the Bollywood musical Bombay Dreams for their London promotional tour in 2002 and sang in the choir of the West End musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat the following year. She was an extra in several of the Harry Potter films. In 2005, while holidaying in Mumbai, she received work offers and decided to stay and pursue a modelling and acting career in India. The first modelling company she worked with changed her name to Rose Dawn. She then worked in various music videos as "Kahin Pe Nigahen" as well as many TV commercials, such as Vivel by ITC, and the Sprite 'University of Freshology' commercial. In 2007, Keech appeared in the 2007 Tamil film Billa, where she performed an item number in the song "Sei Ethavathu". In 2011, she played a supporting role in the Hindi film Bodyguard produced by Atul Agnihotri and directed by Siddique. She also performed an item number titled "Aa Ante Amlapuram" in the film Maximum. She performed a song, "Chal Chal Chal", in the film Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum (2012). In August 2013, she appeared as a guest contestant in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6 for the Teen Ka Tadka special opposite singer Shaan Mukherjee (who was a contestant on the show) and his choreographer Maricsha Fernandez. In September 2013, Keech appeared in the reality show, Bigg Boss 7. She spent a week in the house before getting eliminated and became the first contestant to exit the house. In an interview after her eviction she expressed her anger about Pratyusha Banerjee, saying, "She likes to create problems". In October 2013, after leaving the Bigg Boss house, Keech appeared on a Punjabi film titled Heer and Hero in an item number.