It will be straightforward to imagine that popstar-turned-actor Lily Allen and her “Stranger Issues” actor husband, David Harbour, would have recognized of one another earlier than they launched into their first date. However you would be flawed. Allen confessed on “The Jonathan Ross Present”, airing on 1 April, that she had no concept who Harbour was, had by no means watched the Netflix present (the place had she been?!), and truly thought he was a policeman.
The couple met on superstar courting app, Raya, however Allen wasn’t taking her swiping critically. “It was the primary time I might been on this courting app. I used to be scrolling via and landed on David’s profile and pressed settle for,” she says. “I did not know who he was. I believed he was identical to an attractive policeman from a actuality TV Present. He was carrying a policeman’s uniform. It was a nonetheless from “Stranger Issues”. I might by no means seen “Stranger Issues”.”
Once they did finally meet in real-life — at fancy London restaurant, The Wolseley, no much less — their attraction was most actually there and their relationship blossomed. “I might say it was fairly instantaneous really. He was sitting beneath a clock. It was a bit bit like that second in “Titanic”, when he [Jack] turns round underneath the clock. It was a bit bit like that for me,” she provides. The couple went on to get married in September 2020 in Las Vegas, and now reside with Allen’s two daughters in Brooklyn, New York.
Allen, who’s 4 years sober, is starring in Sky’s “Dreamland”, her debut TV appearing position, following her theatre stint in “2:22 A Ghost Story” in London’s West Finish. “I sort of took [the theatre] job on as a result of I used to be stuffed with self-hatred on the time. [I was telling myself] ‘This shall be a catastrophe, I am going to hate it, the opinions shall be horrendous’ and I am going to have the ability to be like, ‘Sure you’re a piece of s***’. However really it was actually good and it offered out. I bought an Olivier nomination!” she says.
As for her music profession, she admits its on maintain proper now, however by no means say by no means. Following her return to Glastonbury final yr the place she took to the stage with Olivia Rodrigo, which she says was “actually, actually wonderful”, she bought the bug and booked time right into a studio. Do not get too excited, although, as she’s not placing any of that music out. She did get brownie factors from her youngsters although, who’re large Rodrigo followers. Because the “Smile” singer has banned her personal music in the home, they’d no concept of her earlier success. She says: “Within the automotive on the way in which again, Marnie checked out me, and went, ‘Are you sort of well-liked then?’ She was like, ‘What, within the charts?’ And I used to be like, ‘Sure. . .'” Simply wait till they’re sufficiently old to hearken to her hits!
“The Jonathan Ross Present” airs on Saturday, 1 April at 9.40 pm on ITV1 and ITVX