Keeley Hazell—Jason Sudeikis’s ex-girlfriend and the inspiration behind beloved Ted Lasso character Keeley Jones—has added some more ingredients to the Olivia Wilde salad dressing drama.
While the rest of us were preparing for Midnights, Hazell took to her Instagram Stories to share another excerpt from Nora Ephron’s Heartburn—the same book Wilde quoted on her own Instagram Stories after Dressing Gate broke.
How about a dash of context? On October 17, Wilde and Sudeikis’s former nanny gave an interview with DailyMail.com detailing a dramatic fight between her employers. According to the anonymous nanny, the incident ended with Sudeikis lying underneath Wilde’s car to stop the Don’t Worry Darling director from delivering a salad with her “special dressing” to Harry Styles.
In response, Sudeikis and Wilde—who have been embroiled in a tumultuous custody battle over their two children—put their differences aside to release a joint statement condemning the interview. “As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly,” they said on October 17. “Her now 18 month long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues, has reached its unfortunate apex.”
Despite calling the interview “false and scurrilous,” Wilde later shared a screenshot of a salad dressing recipe from Heartburn on Instagram Stories on October 18. “Mix 2 tablespoons Grey Poupon mustard with 2 tablespoons good red wine vinegar,” the recipe read, in part. "Then, whisk constantly with a fork, slowly add 6 tablespoons olive oil, until the vinaigrette is thick and creamy; this makes a very strong vinaigrette that’s perfect for salad greens like arugula and watercress and endive.”
On October 20, Hazell seemed to pontificate on Wilde’s reason for sharing the recipe with her own excerpt from Heartburn. “‘Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?’ So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version,” one underlined passage read, per People. “Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”
Keeley Hazell and Jason Sudeikis dated for about a year following his split from Wilde in November 2020. Season one of Ted Lasso, which featured a character named after Hazell and another role played by the model, was released in August 2020. The costars were first linked romantically in February 2021 and reportedly split by May 2022.
