Lily Allen hasn’t ever been a stranger to controversy during her time in the pop limelight and tabloid headlines.
Even today (Friday May 2), as she turns 40, the twice-married singer is risking censure from Instagram (for posing in sheer underwear, rather than wishing herself happy birthday) instead of blowing out candles on a cake.
So, as the Smile star enters her fifth decade on the planet, ED! takes a look back at some of Lily‘s biggest-ever scandals. How many can you remember?
Happy birthday to Lily Allen, who is 40 today (Credit: YouTube)
Lily Allen scandals: ‘Losing her virginity aged 12’
Appearing on Alan Carr’s Life’s A Beach podcast in 2023, Lily shared the shocking revelation she lost her virginity on holiday when she was just aged 12. She also said her father Keith Allen called the police when he found out.
“I lost my virginity to a guy called Fernando in Brazil,” she recalled. “When I was about 12, no I am not joking. Never spoke to him again.”
Lily continued: “[My family] thought I actually went missing. I went to his hotel room, and I was on holiday with my dad and brother, and obviously didn’t come back to my room.”
Lily added she slept in the next day – but woke to find “police all over the hotel”.
“They were literally combing the beach and had T-shirts, asking: ‘Is this what she was wearing?’ I didn’t have the heart to say: ‘No, I was just losing my virginity.’ It was all a bit traumatic, and I didn’t have sex again then for a while.”
Lily’s dad, pictured with her here in 2008, is media personality Keith Allen (Credit: Cover Images)
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