Lily Allen is sharing her tips on how to successfully hook up with a celebrity—and according to her, it’s all about timing and strategy.
In her Seek Help advice column for Interview Magazine, published Wednesday (Oct. 29), the 40-year-old singer responded to a reader who asked for advice on “the best way to hook up with a celebrity.”
“Well, I’ve only done this a couple of times and it’s been quite meticulously planned,” Allen admitted. “You have to kind of find yourself in a place where the celebrity thinks that they are discovering you, not the other way around.”
She went on to share how she once pursued a particular star romantically by studying his tour schedule. “There was a particular celebrity that I was really after romantically and I looked at his touring schedule and he was going to be in Japan,” she said. “So I made sure that I was at this festival and that I would be one of the very few English-speaking people at the same festival as him, which I guess made me interesting. Actually, both my celebrity hookups have been in Japan, but different celebrities.”
Allen also fielded questions about topics ranging from green card marriages to awkward encounters at kink dungeons—and even ChatGPT. Her advice was blunt as always: when a reader said their boyfriend only played Blur’s “Country House” during sex, she simply told them to “get out of that relationship.”
The singer recently dropped West End Girl, her first album in seven years, diving into themes of heartbreak, infidelity, and the emotional wreckage of discovering a partner’s secret “double life.” The project followed her public breakup with husband and actor David Harbour.
Allen and Harbour first met on Raya in 2019 and tied the knot the following year. Rumors of their split began circulating earlier this year. She was previously married to Sam Cooper, with whom she shares two daughters.
When asked by Interview if West End Girl could be considered a “revenge tour,” Allen pushed back. “It isn’t. I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December, and I feel very differently about the whole situation now,” she said. “We all go through breakups and it’s always fucking brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”
“That’s what’s fun about this record; it’s viscerally like going through the motions,” she continued. “At the time, I was really trying to process things, and that’s great in terms of the album—but I don’t feel confused or angry now. I don’t need revenge.”
