Yesterday, my favorite Daily Mail columnist Katie Nicholl reported a relatively innocuous little gossip item. According to her sources, Lily Allen was planning a wedding to her boyfriend Sam Cooper, following their tragic miscarriage just one month ago. You can read the piece here – there are no nasty quotes, nothing that I would find particularly offensive. If it was true, I would think Lily’s friends are gossips who love her. If it was false, I would think that Nicholl just got a bad tip. What I would not think, however, is that Nicholl was a C-U-Next-Tuesday. But that was Lily Allen’s reaction on Twitter:
[From Lily Allen’s Twitter]
Too harsh? Or should Lily be off-limits for a time because of her personal tragedy? Or should professional gossips just pack it in completely because no one should ever speculate, EVER? Here’s Gossip Cop’s take on the situation:
Lily Allen is blasting a gossip columnist who claims Allen and Sam Cooper are planning to marry in the aftermath of her recent miscarriage.
The Daily Mail’s Katie Nicholl quotes a so-called “friend” of the couple as saying, “They realised through their grief that they absolutely adore one another and cannot live without each other.” Nicholl goes on to speculate about the location of the ceremony and reception.
Allen, who’s also recovering from blood poisoning, took to Twitter to say exactly what she thought of Nicholl.
Allen writes, “Katie Nicholl I THINK you’re a c**t, leave me out of your sh**ty column, you know nothing about the intimate details of my life.”
“Theres (sic) a time and a place for your musings where i’m concerned, and it’s not now,” adds the singer.
Gossip Cop has busted Nicholl’s “musings” before, including her wrong assertions about Sienna Miller and Charlize Theron following Kabbalah, as well as her baseless claim that Uma Thurman planned to marry at Kensington Palace.
As of now, the Allen article is still posted to the Daily Mail’s website, and Nicholl has not responded.
[From Gossip Cop]
Well, Lily seems to be claiming that Nicholl did get in touch with her, so I wouldn’t say there has been NO response. Quite honestly, I have mixed feelings about this. I think it’s in poor taste to report random marriage gossip about someone who has just gone through an unspeakable tragedy. On the other hand, despite Lily’s personal grief, I think she’s overreacting and still quite hungry for the limelight – this report would have been completely ignored if Lily hadn’t made such a big deal about it. She’s been in the fame business long enough to know that – so I have no idea what she’s trying to achieve.
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Grief come sout in many ways, indirect anger being one. Maybe she was having a bad day, maybe it’s not true about getting married, and she’s sensitive that it hasn’t happened yet? I give her some leeway in this. She’s been through alot mentally and physically. The reporter shoud retract the story and go on about her business. Leave Lily alone for a while to get herself back together.
She just lost her second child before she had a chance to meet either one. Leave her alone
I’m on team Lily – Katie Nicholl has NO business speculating about ANYTHING going on in Lily’s life right now. Give the poor girl time to heal physically and emotionally before you start the gossip machine rolling over her.
To be honest, I’d rather read offensive stuff about myself than such goopy drivel as “They realised through their grief that they absolutely adore one another and cannot live without each other.”
As much as I dislike Lily Allen, I’m with her on this one!
I don’t think Lily is trying to “achieve” anything… I think she’s is unhinged. Her anger is misplaced. Gossip columnists gossip. Why is Lily even reading gossip columns? After such a tragedy, she should be in intensive therapy, mending her body and her spirit. Not waiting for some innocuous piece of gossip to sent her into a tailspin.
Team katie! If you can’t say anything logical just don’t say ANY thing Lily.
Lily’s in the public eye whether she likes it or not, no matter what’s going on in her personal life. And a Brit calling someone a cunt is basically the same as Americans calling someone a bitch or an asshole. It’s only a word.
I think it was just an impetuous response from a grieving girl. Let her be.
I don’t think she’s off limits because of the miscarriage. I think she’s off limits because anyone who works for the Daily Mail is a filthy little moneygrubber who thinks journalistic freedom is a licence to print total fiction and pass it off as fact.
Lisa Turtle – Yes, I cosign. The Mail didn’t even have this story up on their main gossip page – I really had to hunt for it! I think Lily (who still claims to be retired, btw) has Google Alert on herself.
Lily Allen has lost another baby, and she must be devasted, but also her boyfriend is suffering; we can’t know what’s going on between them, or how they’re handling all this sad situation, so probably this gossip is inappropriate and hurted Lily much more than we can imagine.
I am 100% with Lily on this one, things may be rough at home and the Daily Hate (Mail) just produces the most awful drivvle, I hate this rag with a passion and the readers of it aren’t much better.
Kaiser,
Wouldn’t it just be hilarious if this article popped up on Lily’s alert and she started writing some rambling vaguely angry missive telling everyone off. Something like “Kaiser, I think you are a bad German. Bad! My lawyers will get you at the right time and place for it.”
I feel for the girl, I really do. But I still think twitter accosting random gossip reporters comes across as a woman unhinged. If she wants to be out of the limelight what is she doing on Twitter anyway? Twitter is for famewhores like Demi & Ashton.
I think it was incredibly tacky timing for this columnist to write that. Tacky and insensitive. The hell with her.
I continue to sympathise with her on the loss of her baby but I don’t see anything offensive or intrusive about the small article. Lily Allen is, as usual, being obnoxious and she needs to get over herself.
Katie Nicholl is generally stupid as it is, so I’m Team Lily.
i feel like she’s probably genuinely pissed off..if i went thru all that i’d snap to
Team Lily. I can’t imagine her pain. Just leave her alone for a bit.
You know, I think that some of us are over analyzing all of this. Maybe its not grief, maybe she’s not looking for attention, maybe this is exactly who she is. I’m sure some of you know better than me but doesn’t Lily Allen usually talk like this? I could be wrong but I thought this was kind of what she was known for.
Team Lily!!! She is allowed to do and say anything she feels like right now. Even if it’s irrational. I can’t imagine how this poor woman feels. I hope one day she will get over this horrible tragedy. Until then let her heal.
It seems like bad form on the part of the gossip columnist. I remember after going through an experience incredibly similar to hers that I was just absolutely lost for a while afterwards. Yeah, she probably overreacted but I think she deserves a pass. No one ever deserves to bury a child.
On a side note, I wonder why they keep calling it a miscarriage. I know in the States, after 20 weeks it is an intraunterine fetal demise and/or a stillbirth. I thought the standard of care was similar in both countries. Just curious. I know after I had my losses that some people were dismissive about my loss and said similar things (i.e., it was “just a miscarriage”) when it wasn’t. All of them are incredibly painful to go through but when people got it wrong on purpose (and not everyone even sees a distinction I guess but some knew better) it was incredibly hurtful.
I think she only want to scream and beat up someone, to kill off her desperation.
Much love to Lily.
When I read the article yesterday I thought it was lovely that Lily Allen and her partner had such a strong connection that they would weather this personal crisis together. Alas, Lily’s out of control rage to a fluffy, feel good gossip story tells me this is not the case.
The key to her being upset is in the wording that the columnist used IMO..
“They realised through their grief that they absolutely adore one another and cannot live without each other.”
They realised through their grief that they absolutely adore one another
They realised through their grief
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Yep, she’s a cunt and deserves to be called out hard for it. Even as an American, this bitch is a cunt, she has no right to speculate on Lilys grief, or that of her partners. Stupid little shit.
I’d give Lily a pass on this one. When you are grieving you do some weird ass things and act like a completely different person. I think it was a little uncalled for to speculate on her at this point.
For everyone who is saying that she’s not off limits, have you ever lost someone very close to you? I don’t mean that in a bitchy way, I’m really curious. When my dad (who I was very close to) passed away, I went seriously bat shit crazy for a while. I cried at the drop of a hat, lashed out at anyone for really innocuous comments and generally was a miserable bitch. Now make that the loss of your child. I think I would be unhinged.
I think for whatever reason it hit too close to home. And yes I do think Lily should be off limits for a while unless she does something for real. I can think of 1/2 a dozen celebrities who get the endless getting married/pregnant speculation on repeat and I hope that doesn’t happen to her because it can be very hurtful in situations like these.
I don’t know in what world is it ok to speculate on people’s life and make up crap. If I was Lily I would be understandably upset and if I had just gone through what she had I wouldn’t hesitant to take my anger out on the next person who looked at me wrong. That person happened to be Katie. Such poor taste to write lame ass stories about this woman and she just lost her child. Good rumor or bad, you don’t want people reporting on your life and its not true. Lily may not have responded so bluntly if she still wasn’t so angry.
I love how the media thinks they have the right to print whatever crap they want but god forbid if a celebrity calls them up on it. All hell breaks loose and the columnist thinks she has the power to demand a retraction? Um, take down your crap first, Katie.
Just went over to look at what MK is up to at DListed today, and he included a very helpful piece (instead of just a link to the column, which I refuse to click)
“It all started when Katie Nicholl of the Daily Mail wrote a gossip piece titled: A New Year wedding to ease Lily Allen’s baby grief.”
Lilys anger is more than 1000% justified.
Its disgusstingly inappropriate to write anything about a possible marriage for Lily after the tradgey she’s just been through. I don’t blame Lily for being furious, completely inappropriate story / headline.
This is someone’s personal life, the awfulness of losing her 2nd baby at 6 months and some stupid journislist thinks ahhhh..a story about a celeb so lets run this story (true or not) w/o any regard for Lily – just sick.
Losing a baby is not a normal celeb gossip item, the journo had no right to do this
BTW the Daily Mail is a paper known just for bigoted small minded people, so enough said
Team Lily!! It’s so hard to emotionally get yourself together after a miscarriage, especially one in the second trimester.
She is really sensitive and hurt and who knows, maybe she is having difficulty with her boyfriend.
Its really hard.
i think the piece was innocent enough (typical crappy fluff) but the timing was very bad. i think the paper did it deliberately to stir shit, because shit sells.
team lily.
“Why is Lily even reading gossip columns? After such a tragedy, she should be in intensive therapy, mending her body and her spirit. Not waiting for some innocuous piece of gossip to sent her into a tailspin. ”
@ Lisa Turtle (and Kaiser who co-signed)…I have to politely disagree, How do we know that someone in Lily’s circle did not report this story back to her for whatever reason? I seriously doubt that she is reading gossip or even has herself on a google alert. That site had no right to report a story like that at this time in her life right now.
I love Lily and people should give her a break. Don’t talk shit about someone after such a loss… give her some time before gossipping again!
she’s justified for sure, now that i know what the article was titled as. that katie is a BITCH.
and FYI, in the real world when that happens— we SUE.
Consulting a lawyer because someone called you a name? Really?
I do agree that it was in poor taste. Not that it surprises me. The media as a whole does jump on things faster when something negative has happened, but using someone’s miscarriage as a jumping off point for any sort of speculation is completely taboo, even for the lower class gossip columns.
Lily had every right to be angry, no matter how she came across the information. She *is* grieving, & blowing up at something like this is understandable. She *should* sue, money speaks louder than words to those people.
It’s really about being able to take *some* step to defend yourself, though on the other hand, being a celebrity of any kind also comes with being subject to such public lies. I’m sure she would have ignored the whole thing if she hadn’t been through such a tragedy.
Lily has gone through two VERY public tragedies now. I’m sure the timing of the article had more to do with her anger than the content. Maybe, she wanted to be left alone? And, I don’t blame her one bit. This is pretty trashy.
That columnist is horrible. AND, she consults a lawyer over being called a name? Obviously, she can dish it out but can’t take it back. What a hypocritical c-word. Oops–here come the lawyers. haha 🙂
Whatever, it’s Twitter. Gossips can print… gossip, and now it’s unfair for someone to talk about the writer who was before talking about them? Talk about double standard. Team Lily.
I think what Lily said was hilarious – esp her “amended” statement!
Having lost two children myself, I can completely understand how intense Lily’s feelings must be right now, if you’ve never lost a child you’ve no idea how all consuming the grief can be.And most of us get to go through it somewhat privately, imagine if it was something you had broadcast and dragged out in the papers and online. It must be hell for her.
Lilly herself acted like what she called the columnist. Sorry for her loss but that tweet was not ok.
She’s grieving – it’s perfectly understandable. And that columnist is a twat.
Lily already lost a fiance when she lost her first child — she split with Ed Simons shortly after her first miscarriage. This is probably deja vu for her, only far more cruel due to the late time in the pregnancy. Speculating on her marital status was poor judgment by Katie, especially considering the past history of loss on more than one level.
It might be an overeaction on Ms. Allens part but considering what she’s been through, I would be on her side. I think gossip columns at this point should consider her hands off.
I’m with lily, it’s not journalism in any way to just speculate stuff to fluff it up a bit, and it seems (with the comment about their grief bringing them together) that this lady is trying to cash in on lily’s loss. and that’s definitely not cool at all… so yeah I’d be really offended by it to.
for example when my mom was extremely sick with cancer, my cousin was using it to make it sound like she was important i guess, by telling people (stupidly people we both knew) that she came over each weekend to help my mom (which she never did) and when i found out about that, it made me sick, it was sickening. I was mad for my mom, who was like a second mother to this girl, and me because we were “best friends”. So people that are trying to benefit from sad or morbid things are messed up in the head.
Lost 76 – I was thinking of the same thing. Of course I am team Lily on this one, the girl just lost her second child for god’s sake.
But also, we don’t know what else is going on in her life. Maybe she is afraid of losing her current partner, maybe they are already under a lot of strain as a couple, who knows? If I put myself in her position, I’d probably rage right left and centre like that too.
Meh. Cunt doesn’t have the same connotation in the UK as it does in the US. I’m not bothered by it.
I agree with Johnny Depps Girl.
She’s gone through a lot. Leaver her alone. If she wants to freak out on twitter let her. It’s usual for people to have melt downs (public or otherwise) after something as tragic as what she has been through. Who knows? maybe her PR person told her about it and let her know.
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