Lily Allen has given up her party lifestyle and insists that she now enjoys evenings of quiet sophistication, and if there's one thing you can count on with Lily it's that she always tells the truth and never contradicts herself. Can't you just imagine Lily in a leather wing-backed chair, slowly swilling a glass of brandy and talking about the inner dichotomy of her own lyrics? And her hair? And her weight loss tips? And her dad?

She claims to have left behind those friends in their early twenties and has now surrounded herself with a wiser and more mature circle, perhaps made up of media wannabes in their mid-twenties with hair that is 'ironic' rather than plain 'shit'.

 

"My mates are in a totally different place. I've grown up so much and they are still all into going out and dancing and taking drugs. I hang out with much older people, I go for dinners at posh places and talk about art!"

 

Translation - 'I go to Pizza Hut instead of McDonalds and I still like The Simpsons'.

 

"I find that my life was sort of lacking in friends. I'm meeting more interesting people who tax my brain."

 

Translation - 'I'm lonely. My brain can't decide if I want to buy a 'Big Issue' or not.'

 

There is some marvellous news though. Lily would consider giving up singing if she has children.

 

"What I really want out of my life is to have children. I don't think I want to be doing this (singing) at the same time as that. I certainly wouldn't want to mix the two."

 

Can anyone spare a child? Madonna? Angelina? It's for the good of the world, after all...

 

by Ian McShane