Lily Allen Ranks Friends by Preference for Catch-Ups

Lily Allen’s pals have received quite the wake-up call from the star, after she revealed she ranks them in order of how much she likes them. 

Anyone receiving unexpected FaceTime calls from the Smile hitmaker, 40, for catch-up chats perhaps shouldn’t feel too honoured or excited – until they’ve worked out its duration and the interval since the last one.

‘I create lists of people who I like in order of how much I like them,’ Lily reveals. 

‘I send that list to my assistant and ask her to schedule the time for me to have FaceTimes with them.’

In March, I revealed that Lily’s husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour, had been having an affair with a colleague. 

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‘David cheated on Lily,’ an associate told me. ‘They met on a movie they did together.’

Lily split from actor David, 49, late last year after four years of marriage, after the pair tied the knot in Vegas in 2020, and moved from London to the United States.

However, last December, friends confirmed they had split after living ‘separate lives’ for months.

The former couple originally met on the celebrity dating app Raya in 2019. 

Their separation came after Lily turned amateur sleuth after speculating that David had ‘cheated’ on the same dating app.

Lily was left in ‘agony’ when she allegedly discovered the actor had a secret profile on the celebrity dating app, The Mail on Sunday revealed.

The pop star joined the app herself, pretending to be ‘looking for women’ – and allegedly found that David had already set up a dating profile. He was reportedly listed on the app as being active for at least a month.

David’s alleged dating profile, exclusively revealed by the Mail on Sunday, read: ‘Visiting New York from Atlanta’ and ‘closet nerd that plays tough guys on your TV’.

It also described him as living in Atlanta, Georgia, 800 miles from the family home in Brooklyn, New York, where the couple moved in 2020, with Lily enrolling her children in local schools. 

He bought a house in Atlanta last year to be closer to the Stranger Things set, as the show was filming its fifth and final series.

Lily’s circle of London friends said she had suspected for some time that her husband was interested in other women.

By the time the couple broke up, she had become convinced that he had a secret girlfriend. 

Two weeks ago, Lily revealed that she has been ‘feeling incredibly low’ and lonely in her New York City home.

The singer explained that she has been feeling ‘extremely heavy’ as she ‘doesn’t have that much to do here’ in the city. 

She moved to Brooklyn in 2020 to be closer to David, enrolling her daughters in local schools.

Revealing she is taking a break from social media, the Smile hitmaker said there is ‘nothing filling the gaps’ as she is no longer doom scrolling. 

Speaking to Miquita Oliver on the friends’ BBC’s Miss Me? podcast, Lily said: ‘I’m nearly two weeks into complete social media ban. 

‘I interestingly enough the beginning of last week I was feeling incredibly low, like lower than I’ve felt in months. It was extremely heavy.

‘And then I realised maybe this is because I’m not filling the gaps with doom scrolling and I’ve suddenly got this time for like reflection, you know what I mean.’

She continued: ‘I don’t have that much to do here in New York during the day and so I guess I would find myself sitting on Instagram and scrolling or being narcissistic and posting or reading my responses and getting that doppamine fix.

‘And I haven’t had it for nearly two weeks and I think it made me initially really sad. 

‘I think I was having withdrawal symptoms. It was horrible, I mean, I really did feel like I was withdrawing from drugs or something, it was crazy. 

‘But it took me a minute to think, ‘oh yeah it was probably that”.