Degrassi: The Next Generation/Hazel Aden

Hazel Aden
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Actor	Andrea Lewis
First Appearance	1x10 - Rumours and Reputations
Last Appearance	5x19 - High Fidelity (2)
Series Billing	Recurring: seasons 1-2, 6 Billed: seasons 3-5
Episode Count	35
Notable Episodes	2x11 - Don't Believe the Hype

Basic Information

Hazel was born in 1988.

Character History

Hazel was best friends with Paige. She pretended to be Jamaican. She hooked up with Jimmy in Season 3-5. She graduated in Season 5.

Season 1

Hazel was rarely seen without her best friend Paige Michalchuk. But she also had many friends including Terri, Jimmy, Marco, and Ashley. Hazel, Paige, and Terri were known for the beauty and dominance over the school. With Ashley as a tag along.

In her beginning episodes she was Paige Michalchuk's sidekick. Like Paige, Hazel is a popular fashionista at Degrassi Community School with a sharp tongue who was also a member of the school's Spirit Squad. Paige was rarely seen without Hazel by her side through good times and bad.

Season 2

During an 'International Day' school event, Hazel pretended to be Jamaican to hide her muslim heritage. She even bullied another Muslim girl named Fareeza to prove a false point. When a couple of students destroyed Fareeza's presentation on Iraq with spraypaint by labeling it as terroism, Hazel was devastated for her because it brought back painful memories of the time she was violently harassed at her old school right after 9/11 because of her culture. After making peace with Fareeza, Hazel revealed in a class presentation that she was really born in Mogadishu, Somaila to Muslim immigrants.

Season 3

Hazel was the first one to figure out that Rick Murray was physically abusing Terry. Blinded by love, Terri accused Hazel of being jealous when she asked her to be honest and admitt to what Rick was doing to her. Terri got really upset at Hazel and ran off angry. Hazel and Terri made up after she finally decided to dump Rick, at least for the time being.

Hazel always had a crush on Marco but she told decided to make her move when she found out Ellie also had a crush on him. During the date Ellie walked in and gave Marco a weird look. Marco knew what the look meant and he decided he had to leave, but not without a little bit of questioning from Spinner. Marco said he had to help his mother make pasta sauce but that didn't add up in Spinner's mind. Spinner told him that it didn't make sense that he walked out on a date with one of Degrassi's Coolest girls for pasta sauce. Thus Marco revealing to Spinner that he was gay,

Hazel accidentally looked at a porn site and gets caught and has to spend a Saturday in detention with Jimmy, Ellie, Toby and Sean. At first she didn't want to do anything with them but eventually comes around and started to like them, especially Jimmy who gave her a necklace that they found on the roof and then shared a kiss. At the beginning of detention, Hazel was dared by Jimmy to kiss Toby. This started the new relationship of Jimmy and Hazel.

Season 4

Hazel and Jimmy were against Rick being back at Degrassi after he put Terri into a coma and tried to get him out of Degrassi but after awhile, Jimmy decided to be nice to Rick. However, his friend Spinner Mason. and Spinner's friends Degrassi: The Next Generation/Jay Hogart and Alex Nunez. were still bullying him and decided to pour paint and feathers on him leading to Rick bringing a gun to school and shooting Jimmy (after being led by Spinner to believe Jimmy was lying about their friendship). Hazel stuck with Jimmy throughout his recovery.

Season 5

Hazel starts to feel like Jimmy is drifting apart from her as he doesn't have much interest in sports or her and seems to be spending more time with Ellie and, after Jimmy wins the chance to paint a mural, he paints Ellie into the mural. That's the last straw for her and she dumps Jimmy for being way too close with Ellie.

Hazel and Alex never got along so it didn't help that Paige was Alex's friend which eventually become something more. Although Hazel isn't homophobic, she didn't like the fact that Paige was dating someone that was at the bottom of the social chart but on Paige's behalf they tried to be nice to each other which didn't work at first but after Paige stops talking to both of them, they decide to try again and a playful cappuccino fight ensues, after which the three girls end up laughing about it in the mall security office.

Hazel graduates from Degrassi, and moves on to college. However, she is no longer a part of the story line, therefore making the assumption she is away at a college far from Toronto and Degrassi.

Memorable Moments

Hazel and Alex threw clothes at each other in the mall.

Quotes

• Paige used to be straight, until you came around and turned her gay.