Lily Allen co-hosts a podcast, called Miss Me, with her longtime best friend, Miquita Oliver. They say they’ve been friends “since birth.” As you probably know, Lily has always been an open, outspoken, oversharer. Since she and Miquita began Miss Me, Lily has had a platform to say all sorts of crazy sh-t. (Not kidding; on the May 27 ep, she talked about once having diarrhea while onstage during a concert.) It’s generally good gossip fodder, at least. On the most recent episode of the pod, Lily and Miquita talked about the fact that Lily f-cked a pop star that her best-friend-since-birth had a crush on. She did it on purpose, too.
Lily Allen knows something about sabotage. During the Monday, June 3 episode of her podcast Miss Me, which she hosts with best friend Miquita Oliver, the pop singer, 39, revealed that she once deliberately slept with her co-host’s celebrity crush. The British TV presenter, 40, recalled a time when she interviewed a pop star in the early aughts that had a big album and she found out he “fancied” her.
“Careful who you tell things to — I told Lily that I liked him and she was like, ‘Well actually I like him,’ and I was like, ‘Well it doesn’t matter because he actually likes me,” Oliver said. She explained that the “Smile” performer wasn’t a pop star then, but Allen — who was working artist relations at the time — went to a festival in Japan and “seduced him.”
When Oliver found out Allen slept with him, she said she had never been that “angry” with her friend.
“We did not speak for about six months,” the former The Month with Miquita host recalled. But the “Alfie” musician maintained that she wasn’t trying to “sabotage” Oliver.
“I fancied him, so I was getting mine,” Allen said, adding: “By the way, I think pop stars are fair game, like, I don’t care.”
However, the TV personality felt that at the time she had been “sabotaged” by Allen.
“The point is we got over it,” Oliver said.
The singer-songwriter/actress then apologized saying she never wants to cause her friend “pain.”
“I actually thought you’d just be happy for me,” Allen admitted with a laugh.
Umm, not gonna lie, but Lily sounds like a terrible friend. What a bitch move. There are plenty of fish in the sea, especially if you’re a nepo baby who runs in rich, privileged, famous-people circles like Lily did. She wanted to pull a power move over her friend, so she did just that. And yes, I would think the same thing if it were a man “getting his” with someone that his friend had a crush on. It’s not like Lily and Pop Star X were star-crossed lovers or soulmates. She just wanted to stake a claim in something that her best friend wanted. Thinking Miquita would be “happy” for her is also bonkers because you know if the situation had been reversed, they would still not be talking. Kudos to Miquita for being the bigger person and getting over it because I don’t know if I’d ever again fully trust someone who did that to me.
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Nope, she’s not a friend and I would never speak to her again.
She has no morals I guess. Also told her brother he would never be successful.
And even in hindsight she has no regrets or awareness of doing things differently.
Agreed. Lily is is only a friend to herself. She’s certainly not Miquita’s friend.
Yikes. There are lines you don’t cross. She did it because she could, not because there was a relationship building. That’s gross, and that would have ended the friendship.
Yep, sounds like she was bitter about PopStar liking Mikita instead of her, couldn’t fucking believe the dude would reject her even knowing they were friends and went to prove it.
She then promptly called her dear friend to basically say “told you he wasn’t THAT into you”… what a bitchy move.
I have not meet Lily, but had the unfortunate experience of meeting her father Keith Allen. What an entitled ars@hole he is, so no surprise the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.
Whilst Miquita is a good friend to let it go, I bet she has never mentioned who she has a crush on or who has said they fancy her to Lily since then.
Lilly…YATA.
I have never heard anything good about that woman and most of the time, she is the source of the story.
Came here to say that too. I don’t rate her as a singer, and there is no way she would have made it without her industry parents. She got away with murder… she’s got some swagger certainly, but she can’t actually sing. She heckled Elton John at an awards ceremony, and he called out her c*ke use from the stage. (Yeah Elton!!)
Horrible, selfish human.
What Lily did to her so-called best friend is an instant deal breaker.
Every time she puts out an interview lately, I’m just left thinking man you’re a really self centered asshole. I wonder how she still has friends and is married. I have to believe that she is just one of those people that are socially awkward in interviews and ends up saying horrible things because they don’t know what to say, and think they are being witty or self deprecating,. Otherwise I don’t get how anyone wants to be around her. She has lucked out surrounding herself with the people she has.
She is a piece of work.
That’s for sure.
Girlfriends boyfriends/husbands ans crush are off-limits.
She only wanted him cause her friend wanted him. I knew a chick like this in HS. Every time someone had a crush she would go sleep with that person. It’s major pick me energy and low self esteem vibes. You only value something or someone cause someone else wants it or them. It’s weird and I stay very far from people like this period.
In light of what happened to Cassie, (and reportedly Usher and Justin Bieber) “pop stars are fair game” is a colossal dick comment. This is the exact mentality Harvey Winstein and company had preying on and raping young actresses. What an a-hole she is. Wish they had Pepto to fix that diarrhea of the mouth of hers.
I kinda took as she just wanted to get laid and so she did.
But I can see how it would be upsetting, especially as Lily has access that Miquita doesn’t.
I don’t think she meant it in a bad way, but who knows?
I doubt that turning him down and saying that her friend fancied him would have made any difference. But I get that it wasn’t being a girls’ girl.
She’s not wrong about her brother tho.
I had no idea she was a nepo baby!
Good lordt, her dad has six children!
I think it’s the choice of words that is offensive – a person is never “fair game” a situation may be fair game but not a person. It’s almost like she is saying pop stars don’t count. Maybe I’m just reading it wrong, but I think her wording shows a complete lack of grace, decorum, and sensitivity, which doesn’t surprise me given her foot in mouth disease. She’s vile.
That’s fair. I haven’t really paid much attention to her tbh. Also her most famous/popular track is pretty bitchy!
I will keep on paying her very little attention. (Popstars hate this one trick!)
She sounds awful. Full stop.
The more Lily Allen talks the more of an entitled a-hole she proves herself to be. Between the racist Beyonce comments to her talking about her kids ruining her career to this…she just seems like an awful person. She once replied to me on Twitter in regards a tweet about nepo babies (of which she is one) and said that she didn’t understand why people would focus on that and not other things. I told her we can multitask hun.
Good for you! Sounds like she deserves it.
I’m afraid to even look up what she said about Beyonce (who is like 80 million times more talented, obvi).
The more she talks, the more insufferable she sounds
Never could stand her, she’s always been a nepo brat – her father has a bad rep as well. Although saying that I’ve only heard good things about her brother Alfie, who is the more talented of the siblings.
I bought her first two albums and I really enjoyed them, but she kind of fell of the radar for me until she married David Harbour. I think he redeemed her for me, but she continues to reinforce what an a$$hole she is. How does anyone want to be around that? I truly hate that if you’re posh you get a leg up and a level of interpersonal tolerance that does not exist for someone like me.
I’m really enjoying lily and miquita’s podcast. The two have been friends for life and have obviously gone through a lot together and have come out of it still being best friends.
I think we all had that friend though in out teens/early twenties who had to make a point of stealing your crushes. I can think of one or two friends who used to do this and the reality was that they were much louder than me and would make a point of being ‘up for it’ just to get the guys attention. It made me feel insecure at the time like I wasn’t as good as them, but now I know that most guys that age will generally go for the easiest lay possible, and that the insecure person was my friends who did this.
That kind of move is by vastly insecure people who are secretly jealous of you and what to show you that they are the top dog in the friendship. This person is not your friend and should be cut off immediately, they are competing with you and you don’t even know it because you’re being a friend. I’ve had the same best friend for 50yrs. NEVER has this happened or was it even contemplated.
I would simply never speak her again. My sign is cancer and I can hold a grudge with the best of them. I work really hard to not do that because it’s not the nicest way to live but in this case I would consider it justified and f*ck that person forever.
Wow. Second thinking on my semi-crush on David Harbour. 😕
On one of their older clips on Insta the friend also talked about how she hooked up with one of Lily’s exes. They seem like long time “good” friends who also maybe secretly hate each other. It’s a very weird situation/show. Like they do not seem like healthy friends but it works for them bc apparently they’re both awful?
L Allen is such a narcissistic person.
She set out to seduce & “sleep” with that male pop star only because HE “fancied” M Oliver. Lily just wanted to prove she was better, prettier than her “close friend” and had the upper hand in their friendship.
“…apologized saying she never wants to cause her friend ‘pain.’”
“‘I actually thought you’d just be happy for me,’ Allen admitted with a laugh.” The none apology from Allen just proved Lily is still a self-center, bad friend now.
I don’t know. I have a friend and we both have a thing for a big pop star. If she actually one day had access to him and could get with him for a night, how could I begrudge her that once-in-a-lifetime experience?
Or even if it wasn’t a pop star but someone non-famous I was crushing on … and he liked her instead and asked her out, shouldn’t she go? (If it’s just a one-nighter to get laid and she’s not all that invested, I’d agree she should look for other options.) I’d like the heads up so it’s not a surprise to me they’re dating, but I don’t own the guy. I think it would be different if it was an ex of mine. That would be weird.
I tend to agree. It was a famous person crush not a real life crush. I realize Lily is also a famous person (I don’t know the friend?), so that makes things weirder, but I wouldn’t begrudge a friend for acting on a mutual celebrity crush.
I feel the same way about real-life crushes. If a friend has a crush on the same guy I do and he likes her, she’s hit the lottery. It’s exciting to go out with a crush. How could I begrudge my friend from going for it? (As I wrote, if she’s not really all that interested herself, she should say no.) I’m not saying it wouldn’t sting, but I don’t have dibs on him.
I’m guessing this happened around 2003 cos lily wasn’t famous at the time, cos she was working backstage at a festival. Miquita was famous at the time as she presented a well known music tv show in the early 2000s that literally every millennial in the uk watched. That was how miquita met this pop star.So miquita did have access to celebs at that time when lily didn’t, so I’m guessing lily may have been a bit salty about that and took whatever opportunity she could to get close to this guy.
Yes several of my friends and I had the same celebrity crushes when we were younger. Why does one have a ‘claim’ over another? If a friend had a chance and took it, I would of course be jealous but also pumped for them.
If it was real life that would be much different.
Real life meaning if that person is not a celebrity. OR even a celebrity, but not someone you actually know.
If the woman hasn’t even dated the guy, the guy is fair game for her friend.
This story sounds like Lilly Allen actively went after the guy for some kind of competition with her friend. That’s bad, but if the guy happened to hit on the friend and the opportunity was there, why not? You can’t get every guy you want. Sometimes the guy’s not into you. It stinks, but it’s life.
Exactly! It’s not like he was her boyfriend or husband or anything like that. It just depends on the type of friendship and the motivations.
I think the unspoken part here is that Lily is a recovering addict and alcoholic and this was probably yet another stupid selfish thing she did when she was high.
Lily’s actions are a stark reminder of her selfish nature – she deliberately pursued her friend’s crush, disregarding her feelings. Her lack of apology and accountability is shameful. I hope, for Miquita’s sake, she doesn’t turn her back on Lily, because Lily has shown she’s capable of stabbing her in the back without hesitation.
This sort of reminds me of that episode of Friends where Rachel made a play for Jean-Claude Van Damme. Monica had the initial crush on him. I can’t remember if Rachel actually knew.
I had a “friend” like this when I was younger, who would purposely go after any guy that she knew one of her friends liked: if she succeeded, she would always try to play hurt and innocent afterwards, “I tried to set you up but he just wanted me so badly, what was I supposed to do, please don’t be mad at me!” I don’t miss her or any of that nonsense lol.
On another note, I read somewhere else that the so called “pop star” was actually Mike Skinner of The Streets, which I find interesting.
Absolutely horrible. Definitely not a friend if you’re doing that shit. A friend circle of mine is currently in severe upheaval because one of our number got together with one of the others’ ex husband. And came into the group company to gloat about it. Using the semantics of “we were never friends, we just had mutual friends”. This kind of shit leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. Absolutely immature and mean girl behaviour.
I remember ages ago I felt so bad for her after the pregnancy loss with fatboy slim, and hoped the best for as she sort of took a dark turn soon thereafter…
But now… the more I know about her the more I really can’t stand her.
Weird friendship. Better off without this person in you life.
The woman is a pathological liar and an all-round horrible person. She slept with a married Liam Gallagher, then claimed she didn’t know – despite being in the exact same industry (pop music) as his wife, who had been with him for 14 years. Liam was a dog, no doubt, but Lily seems to lie like she breathes, while taking great delight in screwing over other women.
I really don’t even know who she is? Nevertheless, “Do onto others as you would have others do onto you.”
And “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” Nuff said.