Lily Allen broke into the music scene in the early noughties and quickly became a household name, captivating fans with her witty and brutally honest lyrics.
But brutal honesty can be just that, brutal.
Just ask James Corden, who has found himself on the receiving end of Lily’s rather unique brand of transparency.
Corden, back in the UK after living in the United States for the better part of a decade, was recently branded a ‘beg friend’ by the singer and actress as she recalled their first meeting.
Lily made the comment while hosting a podcast with her childhood best friend and fellow ‘nepo baby‘ Miquita Oliver.
The pair regularly talk about their antics during their partying days, and recent episodes have hinted at tension between them as old tales of betrayal resurface.
As it’s revealed that Lily slept with Miquita’s ex and flew halfway across the world to seduce another man she fancied… MailOnline takes a look at the other celebrities to have had run-ins with the star.
Lily has made headlines over the years for her public feuds with other celebrities, and it seems even those closest to her aren’t immune to her wild ways, including best friend Miquita Oliver (Pictured together this year for their Miss Me? podcast)
Lily has claimed James Corden was a ‘beg friend’ after he accused her of leading him on when she ‘definitely wasn’t’ (seen in 2008)
James Corden
Lily Allen has savagely claimed James Corden was a ‘beg friend’ after he accused her of leading him on when she ‘definitely wasn’t’.
The Smile singer said she met the Gavin and Stacey actor on her chat show in 2008, where he was ‘very flirtatious’ with her.
The 39-year-old said they hung out for a ‘hazy’ short period of time afterwards, but Corden misread the signs and wrote in his book that she led him on.
On her podcast, Miss Me?, she said: ‘Yeah, James Corden was a bit of a beg friend for me.
‘James Corden came on my chat show and was like very flirtatious with me and we sort of made friends and I introduced him to a group of my friends.
‘And I don’t really remember it because that whole period of time was a bit hazy.’
The Smile singer said she met the Gavin and Stacey actor on her chat show in 2008, where he was ‘very flirtatious’ with her (seen on the show)
On her podcast this week, Miss Me?, Allen said: ‘Yeah, James Corden was a bit of a beg friend for me…’
A ‘beg friend’ is described as a person who ‘begs’ for your attention in the hope of forming a friendship.
In 2008, the Sheezus singer hosted the BBC chat show, Lily Allen and Friends.
Corden appeared on the show to promote the new series of Gavin and Stacey.
The mother of two continued: ‘I believe that he wrote about it in his book that, you know, that I was like leading him on or something – which I definitely wasn’t.
‘I think in his mind, maybe it went on a bit longer.
‘But yeah, I’d say if I ever had a famous beggy friend, it was James Corden back in the day.’
A representative for James has been contacted by MailOnline for comment.
Corden, now 45, has recently moved back to the UK after presenting The Late Late Show in America for several years.
Allen added: ‘He’s not begging me anymore. I’m not begging him either. I can’t do anything for him now, he’s good.’
She continued: ‘James Corden came on my chat show and was like very flirtatious with me and we sort of made friends and I introduced him to a group of my friends’ (James seen on the show)
Miquita Oliver
They have been best friends for most of the lives, but there have definitely been rocky patches.
Lily and Miquita, 40, grew up in the limelight, and spent their younger years partying incessantly.
They have been there for each other through many tough times but one area where they haven’t been so loyal is men.
Last week on their podcast Miss Me? Miquita spoke of a particularly sticky time, which came before Lily’s music fame, when the presenter had a crush.
Taking listeners back to the early noughties when she was hosting Popworld, Channel 4’s Sunday morning music show, Miquita said: ‘There was a pop star.
‘I found out that he fancied me. I told Lily that I liked him. Cue, Lily gets herself to a festival in Japan and seduces him.’
Lily hadn’t broken through as an artist yet so instead got a job in artist relations to get backstage for the gig.
The conversation on their podcast got tense as Lily questioned whether Miquita had ever made her feelings clear for the man.
Lily admitted she flew to Japan to ‘lock that one in’, adding: ‘I fancied him, so I was getting mine. By the way, I think pop stars are fair game, like, I don’t care.’
The pair laughed as they recalled the incident, however Miquita revealed that she didn’t speak to Lily for six months after it happened.
Miquita said: ‘If I didn’t hate you so much for it, I would have applauded you.It was admirable.’
Lily has recently made her return to the entertainment world, hosting a podcast with her childhood best friend and fellow nepo-baby Miquita Oliver (Pictured at V Festival in 2006)
Lily and Miquita, 40, grew up in the limelight, and spent their younger years partying incessantly (Pictured in June 2023)
And this wasn’t the only instance of friendship betrayal in the celebrity duo’s past, as on another episode things got heated as revelations surfaced.
Miquita admitted to Lily that she had kissed her ex-partner Toby, who the popstar dated for a year. Quizzed on whether it happened when Lily was actually going out with him, the Popworld presenter confirmed it was.
‘Oh My God, no I did not [know],’ Lily replied in shock. After an awkward silence, Miquita said: ‘Wow, I’m really sorry. Inn Danny and Judy’s sitting room. You were upstairs.’
Lily said she ‘would be really angry’ with her best friend, but admitted to her own wrongdoing.
Pressed by Miquita, Lily said she had “f***ed loads” of her boyfriends, but not while they were together.
‘Did you sleep with Jasper?’ Miquita asked, before Lily admitted that she did but 10 years after they had split up.
‘You did didn’t you?! I can’t believe…,’ Miquita shouted, before Lily cut her off to add: ‘You just admitted to me that you kissed my boyfriend while I was in the same house.’
Miquita insisted the situations were different, as she said: ‘But Toby was a fling, Jasper was a love.’
‘No he wasn’t I was with him for a year, what are you talking about?’ Lily said.
Surprised by this, Miquita asked: ‘Were you? I’m sorry.’
‘Yeah,’ Lily said, looking angry, before adding: ‘F*** you.’
The pair then clashed about who’s confession was worse, leading Lily to call her Miquita ‘a b**ch’ before accusing her of gaslighting her.
Lily added: ‘Now I’m feeling real sorrow for my younger self like knowing that that happened.’
Miquita asked Lily why she thought it was OK to have sex with her ‘first love’ even after they had ended.
But the singer was having none of it, and said there was ‘no comparison’ between the incidences.
Their arguments appear to have been in jest though and aren’t deep for the pair, which Miquita clarified afterwards.
Last week on their podcast Miss Me? Miquita spoke of a particularly sticky time, which came before Lily’s music fame, when the presenter had a crush (Pictured in 2007)
They have been there for each other through many tough times but one area where they haven’t been so loyal is when it comes to men (Pictured in 2008)
Miriam Margolyes
Earlier this month, Miriam Margolyes opened up about an unfavourable experience she had on the Graham Norton Show.
During the Hay Festival, Miriam was asked which celebrities she dislikes by author Philippe Sands.
In a 2014 episode of the BBC talk show, Miriam, 83, was a guest alongside Lily and Dominic Cooper.
Yet Miriam clashed with Lily, with the actress explaining: ‘She thought when she was on the programme that it was all about her.’
Miriam continued: ‘She thought: “Who is this woman? Miriam who?” She wasn’t friendly and I didn’t like that and so I showed my dislike, which wasn’t very nice of me because she was much younger than me and I should have just taught her how to behave.’
Earlier this month, Miriam Margolyes (pictured in September 2023) opened up about an unfavourable experience she had on the Graham Norton Show
Cheryl
In a feud that spanned over 12 years, Lily and Girls Aloud star Cheryl shared some harsh words in the noughties.
The pair first began to clash back in 2006 when Lily name dropped Cheryl, 40, on the B-side of her debut single, Smile, with the lyric: ‘I wish I looked just like Cheryl Tweedy.’
She later wrote: ‘Cheryl, I don’t really want to look like you. I was being ironic. Nobody really wants to look like you, they just think they do.’
Cheryl hit back after hearing the track and when asked about the singer by chef Gordon Ramsay on The F Word, the singer called her a ‘chick with a d***’.
This prompted Lily to write on her Myspace page: ‘Cheryl, if you’re reading this, I may not be as pretty as you but at least I write and SING my own songs without the aid of autotune.
‘I must say taking your clothes off, doing sexy dancing and marrying a rich footballer must be very gratifying, your mother must be so proud, stupid b****.’
Five years later, Lily reignited the feud when she referred to Cheryl’s 2003 conviction for assault on Twitter which promoted Cheryl to unfollow her.
Lily has since reflected on the rivalry in her book, My Thoughts Exactly. According to The Guardian, she wrote: ‘I was frustrated, I was struggling with my own issues around sexuality.
‘I’d never even had an orgasm, and then here were these gorgeous girls — my peers, colleagues so to speak, and co-workers — taking their clothes off with wild abandon and being loved and rewarded for it. I couldn’t take it.
‘Sorry Cheryl, I was angry because I hadn’t come yet, it was ridiculous. I b****ed at Cheryl because she insulted me after I provoked her.’
In a feud that spanned over 12 years, Lily and Girls Aloud star Cheryl shared some harsh words in the noughties (Pictured in 2018)
Lily has since reflected on the rivalry in her book, My Thoughts Exactly. According to The Guardian , she wrote: ‘I was frustrated, I was struggling with my own issues around sexuality’ (Cheryl and Lily pictured in 2015)
Victoria Beckham
They have since buried the hatchet, but things between Lily and Victoria Beckham weren’t always so rosy.
Tensions were ignited in 2007 when Lily criticised Victoria for promoting designer products on an episode of This Week.
‘We are bombarded with fashion mags and gossip mags with rich pop stars and Victoria Beckhams with their new handbags and kids think that’s the sort of life they should have,’ she said.
That same year, which was the year before Ms Beckham launched her eponymous fashion label, Ms Allen dubbed her ‘fame obsessed.’
She said: ‘I just laugh when I see pictures of her in a magazine. I think, “You’re not promoting anything and you don’t need the money, so it’s all about you being famous.” I don’t understand the need to just be famous.’
The year before, Victoria’s husband David even mentioned their feud when he was offered her track by DJ Chris Moyles on BBC Radio 1. Turning it down, he said: ‘She was horrible to Victoria, I won’t have that then.’
The pair have since patched things up though, as Victoria shared a picture of Lily on her Instagram Story last year, exclaiming: ‘Love this look on you @lilyallen!! Kisses.’
Lily also wore a £1,290 plunging red satin gown made by Victoria, prompting the designer to call her, ‘my muse’ on Instagram.
They have since buried the hatchet, but things between Lily and Victoria Beckham weren’t always so rosy (Pictured in April)
The pair have since patched things up though, as Victoria shared a picture of Lily on her Instagram Story last year, exclaiming: ‘Love this look on you @lilyallen!! Kisses’
Katy Perry
The Fireworks singer once described herself as a ‘skinnier version’ of Lily, prompting the English star to clap back.
In a 2008 interview on Capital FM, fiery Lily described meeting Katy for the first time as ‘frosty’ – and took a swipe at her musical abilities.
Lily said: ‘I happen to know for a fact that she was an American version of me.
‘She was signed by my label in America as, “We need to find something controversial and kooky like Lily Allen”. ‘And then they found her. I think the lyrics and stuff are a bit crass.’
Lily added: ‘When I met her I was bit frosty with her because someone asked her to describe herself.
‘She’s like, “Aha, I’m like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen!”. It’s like, you’re not English and you don’t write your own songs, shut up!’
Katy later called a truce in her simmering feud with her fellow pop star.
She apologised to Lily for her remarks, saying at the taping of Fuse’s The Good, the Bad & the Britney: ‘Yeah, I made a joke about that earlier this year.
‘I was just kind of joking and trying to be funny. I didn’t mean anything by it. Comedians are not necessarily to be taken super seriously.’
Fireworks singer Katy Perry (pictured in 2008) once described herself as a ‘skinnier version’ of Lily, prompting the English star to clap back
In a 2008 interview on Capital FM, fiery Lily described meeting Katy for the first time as ‘frosty’ – and took a swipe at her musical abilities (Both pictured in 2009)
Courtney Love
Lily’s feud with Courtney Love began in 2010 over fashion choices.
The Hole hitmaker, 59, accused Lily of stopping the rock singer wearing Chanel to the previous week’s Brit Awards.
As a ‘face’ of the brand Lily got preferential access, but denied she had stopped anyone else from wearing it.
Lily later stoked their feud further by labelling Love a ‘drug-addled lunatic’.
Replying to a fan on Twitter who had asked if celebrities really put a ‘lock’ on clothing, she said: ‘No but it’s the sort of thing a paranoid drug addled lunatic might come up with.’
Lily explained: ‘She’s upsetbecause she has got it into her head that i put a lock on some dressesfor the Brit Awards.
‘She’s made no secret of this and, when I saw her at the NME’S she tried to talk to me and I told her to shut up stop spreading stupid rumours about me.
‘And that’s pretty much it. I would never fight with her, as a rule I don’t pick on crazy old ladies.’
One crew member who witnessed their fight told party hosts that the two singers were chatting amicably at first, before things ‘turned really nasty, really aggressive and bitchy’.
The row only ended when the pair were pulled apart by their entourages, but both continued shouting, with Love labelling Lily a ‘little girl’ and saying ‘welcome to the music industry’.
An annoyed Lily shouted back: ‘Why the f*** did you say that to me?’ before her then-boyfriend Sam Cooper escorted her out of the awards.
The pair appear to have patched things up, as they were pictured together at the Charles Finch & CHANEL Pre-BAFTA Party in February 2020.
Lily’s feud with Courtney Love began in 2010 over fashion choices (Courtney pictured in 2010)
The pair appear to have patched things up, as they were pictured together at the Charles Finch & CHANEL Pre-BAFTA Party in February 2020
Azealia Banks
Years after her last public feud, Lily faced the Twitter wrath of Azealia Banks amid her tirade of celebrities.
The American rapper, 33, called Lily’s then-husband Sam Cooper and children ‘ugly’ and accused her of being addicted to cocaine.
It began after a fan forwarded one of Lily’s tweets from 2012 to Azealia, which read: ‘YOURE ALL JUST JEALOUS CAUSE IM SOOOOOOOO F***ING BEAUTIFUL AND HAVE SUCH A PRETTY FACE.’
Azealia leapt at the opportunity, and said: ‘Weak. [Lily] can’t talk though. Not when I met her coked up at yoyo… And NOT with that ugly husband she has.’
Lily responded appearing to not want to escalate the situation, but Azealia doubled down, adding: ‘Your husband looks like a thumb.’
‘Not even gonna @ her but if she wants to talk about weak, I’m sure her record sales to date should suffice,’ Lily jibed. ‘One hit wonder.
‘And my husband? Don’t go there b***h or your totally unnecessary security detail may actually have something to worry about #wannabe … Ps we all need thumbs.’
Azealia then went for Lily’s kids, snapping: ‘LOL ill be a one hit wonder but you have ugly children and a coke habit….. Shhhhhhh. #SHUTUP.’
The dispute came to an end the next day as Lily shared a picture of beef, captioned: ‘It’s official.’
Years after her last public feud, Lily faced the Twitter wrath of Azealia Banks amid her tirade of celebrities (Pictured in 2012)
The American rapper, 33, called Lily’s then-husband Sam Cooper (Pictured at their wedding in 2011) and children ‘ugly’ and accused her of being addicted to cocaine