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David Harbour is dating a 27-year-old model after his split from Lily Allen

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Earlier this month, we got confirmation that David Harbour and Lily Allen have separated. Lily and David met on the celebrity dating app Raya in early 2019 and got married in Vegas in September 2020. Before we heard they had separated, there were rumors that Lily learned that David had reactivated his Raya profile. Lily denied this was the case on an episode of her podcast, Miss Me?, but admitted that she wasn’t in a good place and was “spiraling,” so she was going to take some time off.

Lily is reportedly “devastated” by the separation. It has also been really hard on her daughters, Ethel Mary, 13, and Marnie Rose, 12, both of whom were close with their stepfather. As for David, he’s dating a 27-year-old model named Ellie Fallon. You don’t say.

David Harbour has reportedly moved on with a much younger woman after splitting from his estranged wife, Lily Allen. The 49-year-old “Stranger Things” star’s rumored romance with aspiring model Ellie Fallon, 27, is heating up after they were allegedly spotted on a New Year’s trip to India, according to the Daily Mail.

Insiders told the outlet that Allen is “very upset” about her ex’s new relationship and was allegedly made aware of it when Fallon shared of photo of herself smoking a cigar from Harbour’s favorite brand via Instagram in October.

“Seeing the picture Ellie posted of herself smoking a cigar, taken weeks before Lily and David called it quits, has convinced her that Ellie and David had been seeing each other before they split,” a source told the Daily Mail.

“After all, how many 26-year-olds smoke cigars?”

Fallon and the actor reportedly met in Georgia, where the latter had been staying while filming Season 5 of “Stranger Things” last year. Per photos obtained by Deumoxi, the rumored couple were photographed together in Georgia on Saturday. The two appeared to rush while walking to two separate vehicles.

[From Page Six]

Ugh. This also puts that whole “putting parental controls on each other’s phone” thing in a completely new light for me now. I think most people assumed that this Raya/cheating thing had only been going on for a couple of months because that’s when the gossip started. If I’m being generous, it sounds like David was cheating as early as October. (Ellie’s cigar post is from Oct. 27.) He was in Georgia to film Stranger Things for almost a year, so who knows how long they’ve been hooking up. That’s so sh-tty and I feel bad for Lily and her daughters. I hope that Lily is taking care of herself so she can be there for the girls. Also, I can’t help but wonder who tipped the paps and Deumoxi off about David and Ellie being together in Georgia over the weekend and in India for New Year’s. I can’t decide if my money is on Lily’s camp to out them publicly or if Ellie did it to raise her own profile.

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Lily Allen and David Harbour announce separation after 4 years of marriage

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After months of rumors about their marriage being on the rocks, Lily Allen and David Harbour confirmed earlier this week that they’ve separated. David and Lily got together after meeting on the exclusive dating app Raya in early 2019 and got married in Las Vegas in September 2020. Over the past few months, there’s been rumors that they were having problems because Lily caught David cheating or that Lily had relapsed. Lily addressed that gossip on a recent episode of her podcast, Miss Me?, saying it wasn’t true. She didn’t do much to quell rumors of a split, though, when she admitted that she’s was not in a good place and felt herself “spiraling.” And now we have confirmation thanks to a People exclusive.

Lily Allen and David Harbour are calling it quits. The “Smile” singer, 39, and the Stranger Things actor, 49, have separated after four years of marriage, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE.

“Her marriage has been crumbling,” an insider tells PEOPLE exclusively, “and they have split.”

Reps for Allen and Harbour did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Allen — who married Harbour in 2020 after meeting on the celebrity dating app Raya — alluded to a recent “tough time” on the Dec. 16 episode of her BBC podcast Miss Me? with co-host Miquita Oliver.

Though Allen did not offer additional details as to the source of her trouble, she said it was affecting her mental health and causing her problems with her eating.

[From People]

According to an “insider,” Lily is “devastated and not in a good place” and that the separation has been “very hard” for both her and her two daughters, Ethel Mary, 13 and Marnie Rose, 12, who were close with David. I know Lily can be problematic as hell, but I do feel for her and I kinda liked them together. She seemed to really love David and whatever the ultimate cause of their split was, I bet she felt they could work it out. I also truly feel for Ethel and Mary. If they were as close with David as we’ve heard they were, then they must be going through a tough time right now. I hope Lily can keep herself together emotionally to be there for them. I am also certain that this is only the beginning of these types of exclusives and we’ll totally find out what went down sooner rather than later.

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Lily Allen slams reactions ‘to clickbait articles’ about her rehoming adopted puppy

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Lily Allen stepped in it again last week when she admitted on her podcast that she’d given away the rescue puppy that she and husband David Harbour adopted during the pandemic. Lily was showing her guest, Welsh TV host Steve Jones, a picture of a dog that she and David were looking at adopting. Steve asks her if they’re ready for that commitment and she responds, “We did adopt a dog together already but then it ate my passport and so I took her back to the home.” She then went on to explain that the dog, named Mary, had eaten her and her two children’s passports and visas, which cost her a lot of money to replace and prevented her children from being able to visit their father in London for several months.

After the podcast aired, there was a pretty big backlash against Lily online. From what I saw, most people were calling her out for laughing about giving the dog back. Apparently, it didn’t stop there, though. Lily released a long statement via Twitter on Monday morning, pushing back on the way the story had been portrayed by the media, calling it “deliberately distorted.” She also shared that she’s received a lot of hateful messages, as well as “death threats” as a result of the coverage. The statement also explains and clarifies the entire situation and then begs people to stop reacting to every clickbaity thing they read.

Allen began with a quote from her Miss Me? podcast, on which she originally discussed giving up the adopted pet. “We tried very hard and for a very long time,” she said, “but the passports were the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

She continued in her statement, “This is the part of the podcast that the tabloids decided not to quote in their articles about me ‘dumping my puppy.’ People have been furiously reacting to a deliberately distorted cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry and as a result, I’ve received some really abhorrent messages including death threats. Some of the most disgusting comments have been all over my social media channels, and I’m really not surprised because this is exactly what those articles are designed to do.”

“We rescued our puppy Mary from a shelter in NY and we loved her very much, but she developed pretty severe separation anxiety and would act out in all manner of ways,” Allen wrote in her statement. “She couldn’t be left alone for more than 10 mins. She had three long walks a day — two by us and one with a local dog walker and several other dogs. We worked with the shelter that we rescued her from and they referred us to a behavioral specialist and a professional trainer. It was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and dog-sit her when we were away, and after many months and much deliberation everyone was in agreement that our home wasn’t the best fit for Mary.”

Allen went on to say that she’s had rescue dogs “pretty consistently throughout” her life and had never been accused of mistreating an animal, so the past few days had been “very distressing.” She ended her statement with a plea for people to “stop acting on clickbait articles when you haven’t done your due diligence,” referencing the recent “racially driven xenophobic riots” in the U.K. that she said were spurred on by “distorted propaganda.”

“It’s just all so toxic and I know that we can do better,” she said.

[From Entertainment Weekly]

I listened to the original clip of Lily telling the story about Mary. On one hand, if you just take the one sound bite, it does come across like she is being very flippant about getting rid of the dog. The passport context is there, but she says things like, “I just couldn’t look at her…I was like, ‘You’ve ruined my life.’” I understand how some people – without the “clickbait” titles – could get upset. Also, and this is just a general reminder, don’t keep important, hard-to-replace documents laying around when there are children, pets, or even guests around to potentially destroy them.

On the other hand, sometimes people and animals just don’t click because they’re not the right fit. Lily’s full explanation about using a behavioral specialist and professional trainer to help with Mary’s anxiety makes the whole situation make a lot more sense. I’m glad that she clarified that the puppy was rehomed within a day to people that she knew. Wherever Mary is now, I hope she’s living her best life, full of treats and cuddles.

Lily Allen’s Dog Rehomed, Doing Well With New Family, Says Rescue Group | Click to read more ???? https://t.co/eyqEKk4qN3

— TMZ (@TMZ) August 26, 2024

“We tried very hard and for a very long time but the passports were the straw that broke the camels back”

This is the part of the podcast that the tabloids decided not to quote in their articles about me “dumping my puppy”

People have been furiously reacting to a deliberately…

— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) August 25, 2024

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Lily Allen slept with her best friend’s crush: ‘I was getting mine’

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Lily Allen co-hosts a podcast, called Miss Me, with her longtime best friend, Miquita Oliver. They say they’ve been friends “since birth.” As you probably know, Lily has always been an open, outspoken, oversharer. Since she and Miquita began Miss Me, Lily has had a platform to say all sorts of crazy sh-t. (Not kidding; on the May 27 ep, she talked about once having diarrhea while onstage during a concert.) It’s generally good gossip fodder, at least. On the most recent episode of the pod, Lily and Miquita talked about the fact that Lily f-cked a pop star that her best-friend-since-birth had a crush on. She did it on purpose, too.

Lily Allen knows something about sabotage. During the Monday, June 3 episode of her podcast Miss Me, which she hosts with best friend Miquita Oliver, the pop singer, 39, revealed that she once deliberately slept with her co-host’s celebrity crush. The British TV presenter, 40, recalled a time when she interviewed a pop star in the early aughts that had a big album and she found out he “fancied” her.

“Careful who you tell things to — I told Lily that I liked him and she was like, ‘Well actually I like him,’ and I was like, ‘Well it doesn’t matter because he actually likes me,” Oliver said. She explained that the “Smile” performer wasn’t a pop star then, but Allen — who was working artist relations at the time — went to a festival in Japan and “seduced him.”

When Oliver found out Allen slept with him, she said she had never been that “angry” with her friend.

“We did not speak for about six months,” the former The Month with Miquita host recalled. But the “Alfie” musician maintained that she wasn’t trying to “sabotage” Oliver.

“I fancied him, so I was getting mine,” Allen said, adding: “By the way, I think pop stars are fair game, like, I don’t care.”

However, the TV personality felt that at the time she had been “sabotaged” by Allen.

“The point is we got over it,” Oliver said.

The singer-songwriter/actress then apologized saying she never wants to cause her friend “pain.”

“I actually thought you’d just be happy for me,” Allen admitted with a laugh.

[From People]

Umm, not gonna lie, but Lily sounds like a terrible friend. What a bitch move. There are plenty of fish in the sea, especially if you’re a nepo baby who runs in rich, privileged, famous-people circles like Lily did. She wanted to pull a power move over her friend, so she did just that. And yes, I would think the same thing if it were a man “getting his” with someone that his friend had a crush on. It’s not like Lily and Pop Star X were star-crossed lovers or soulmates. She just wanted to stake a claim in something that her best friend wanted. Thinking Miquita would be “happy” for her is also bonkers because you know if the situation had been reversed, they would still not be talking. Kudos to Miquita for being the bigger person and getting over it because I don’t know if I’d ever again fully trust someone who did that to me.

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Lily Allen & David Harbour control each other’s phone apps to curb phone addiction

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David Harbour and Lily Allen have been together since 2019. They met via the exclusive dating app Raya while David was filming Black Widow in London and got married in September 2020 in Las Vegas. Last winter, they did an Open Door video for Architectural Digest focusing on their Brooklyn townhouse. It revealed that their bathroom is carpeted with a sitting area and fireplace. While I personally think that’s a bit extra for a bathroom, it made sense to me because they just seem like they’re “carpets in the bathroom” type of people.

Anyway, Lily just did an interview with The Sunday Times with her friend and Miss Me? podcast co-host Miquita Oliver. During the interview, Lily revealed that having a carpeted bathroom isn’t the only unconventional thing that she and David do. They also have a unique way of keeping one another honest when it comes to limiting the amount of time spent on their phones: a parental control app that allows them to control what apps they can download onto their phones.

“I now have a kids’ phone called Pinwheel. It has no browsing capability and no social media, but you can still have Uber and Spotify,” Allen explained. “My husband is the caregiver on it, so he controls what I’m allowed to have as an app on my phone. I’m the controller of his as well.”

The Miss Me? podcast host joked that they are acting like each other’s parents: “‘What’s your child’s name? David, aged 50.’ ”

Allen — who has two daughters, Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11, with ex-husband Sam Cooper — also shared in her interview with The Sunday Times that she took her children’s smartphones away after reading that they shouldn’t have access to them yet.

“The Fear” singer called smartphones “evil,” and said they’ve ruined the “creative side” of her brain.

“I feel like everyone feels the same. I don’t know anyone who could possibly say that the quality of their life is improved by the presence of a smartphone. I think it’s destroyed us as a species. It’s horrendous that they’re designed to be so addictive. Some of us have more addictive personalities than others,” Allen added.

Speaking about married life and co-parenting with her husband, Allen told the outlet that she recently started to ask her loved ones “for help” after going on a one-on-one “trauma weekend” retreat in upstate New York.

“What came out of it was this complete inability to be vulnerable,” she said. “So I’ve been exercising my right to ask for help, and it’s completely changed my life. Just dumb things, like getting up in the morning, being tired, rolling over and saying to David, ‘Can you do breakfast and the school run this morning?’ And him saying, ‘Yes, course I can!’ And I’m like, ‘What?’”

[From People]

I honestly can’t decide how I feel about this. On one hand, it’s kinda cute that they trust each other enough to relinquish control of their phones for what they think is a greater good. My mom’s weakness is chocolate, so whenever she buys a chocolate bar, she eats a piece and then has my dad hide it from her so she won’t eat it all in one sitting. It sorta has that kind of energy.

On the other hand, I also find it a bit overkill to have another adult approve of what you want to put onto your phone. I totally understand her point about addictive personalities and the dangers of too much screen time, but I don’t know if I’d go as far as say that smartphones have “destroyed us as a species.” I think just like with most technological advances, there are both benefits (like FaceTime) and downsides (like less in-person interaction). If Lily needs to be held accountable to not waste hours on TikTok or get sucked down some other rabbit hole of self-destruction, then I guess she’s doing what needs to be done.

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Lily Allen thinks it’s ‘very weird’ that Beyonce would cover Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’

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I love Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter. I would argue it’s her best album since Lemonade, and I consider Lemonade to be her magnum opus. All that being said, there are a couple of skips on Cowboy Carter, for me at least. Let’s say it this way: while the whole album is brilliant, I’m not “in love” with a couple of the songs. And that’s fine! I’m not trying to make a big thing about it, and my whole personality is not newly devoted to nitpicking Beyonce’s choices. It’s like people don’t realize they can just not be crazy about every single song and keep it to themselves. Speaking of, Lily Allen had to chime in about how much she hates Beyonce’s version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.”

Lily Allen isn’t the biggest supporter of Beyoncé’s version of “Jolene.” On the Wednesday, April 3, episode of the Miss Me? podcast that Allen, 38, cohosts with her friend Miquita Oliver, the pair shared their thoughts on the 32-time Grammy winner, 42, covering a Dolly Parton classic.

“I don’t think the ‘Jolene’ one’s good,” Oliver, 39, said as they discussed Cowboy Carter — Beyoncé’s eighth studio album.

“It’s very weird that you cover the most successful songs in that genre,” Allen replied.

“But I also feel like ‘Jolene”s such an excellent song. Like, I’ve listened to the story of how Dolly Parton wrote it in about 20 minutes, like, over and over, because I just think it’s so genius. And I don’t know, it just felt a little bit like a kind of standard hip-hop beat under a ‘Jolene’ cover,” Oliver said. She added, “It’s like, ‘Let’s do something with this song. If we’re going to take it apart and put it back together. I feel like Beyoncé could have done a bit more with that.”

Allen agreed, adding, “Yeah, I just feel like it’s quite an interesting thing to do when you’re like trying to tackle a new genre and you just choose the biggest song in that genre to cover.”

“I mean, you do you, Beyoncé, and she literally is doing her. Or is she doing Dolly?” the “Hard Out Here” singer said.

Despite what Allen and Oliver think, the Houston native recently made history as the first-ever Black female artist to top the Hot Country Songs chart with her single “Texas Hold ‘Em” in February. The same track also debuted at No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart.

Following the achievement, she received praise from Parton, 78, herself. “I’m a big fan of Beyoncé and very excited that she’s done a country album,” the original “Jolene” hitmaker wrote in a statement via Instagram on Feb. 22. “So congratulations on your Billboard Hot Country number one single.”

[From People]

Does Lily Allen not understand that Dolly publicly and repeatedly asked Beyonce to cover “Jolene,” and that Beyonce did so with Dolly’s permission? While I believe Beyonce reworked the lyrics on her own, I also believe that she sought Dolly’s permission to do so and Beyonce didn’t credit herself (Dolly was given sole authorship of “Jolene” on Cowboy Carter). Now, I would have preferred a straight cover as well, because I think so highly of Dolly’s original song. But Beyonce did the thing and she made it her own, and Dolly signed off on everything. So what is Lily complaining about?

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David Harbour & Lily Allen’s place has a bathroom with a carpet & fireplace

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I want to do nothing else today other than talk about Lily Allen and David Harbour’s Brooklyn home. They recently did an Open Door video for Architectural Digest and I am obsessed. It’s perfect from the jump because David, who has done an OD video before, is such a great host on these things. But the townhouse is amazing. The décor is not my style , save for the closets, so I didn’t pick up any tips, but I still love everything about it. I have questions, though, so meet me below:

Forgive me, but I want to walk room by room. I like the kitchen and I love that Lily got to design her dream. Long and narrow isn’t my favorite space to cook in, but I get they had to work with the existing floorplan. There’s so much counter space! And you’d get your steps in running from one end to the other fetching what you needed. I can’t do open shelves that’s en vogue right now. I need a solid cupboard door to hide my mess. Also, I’m not a bench seat person for tables, but I know they are very popular for kitchens.

The garden room makes me swoon. I love everything about it, no notes. Again, exactly the opposite of my style but I wish I was friends with the Allen-Harbours so I could hang out there. It really felt like I was going through a nice little garden. I could make that double-sided couch work for me, though.

The Swan Bathroom confused me. It was impressive, certainly. But would they actually hang out there? I love the sitting chairs and the commodes had stunning inlay, but the only place I ever really want to be in a bathroom is in the bathtub. I can’t see going up there to read in a chair. I don’t have an issue with the carpet. I know people don’t like carpeted baths but I was a kid in the 70s. At least it’s not shag, right? The fridge is a lot. I understand the idea of a refrigerator in the bathroom but that size? I wish they’d opened it to show us what was in it. David said it was his dream but why? Listen, I love a good, long bath but even I don’t stay in so long I need to replenish my lemonade halfway through. A fireplace, though – that I can get on board with.

I actually dig the simplistic bedroom. I generally use a bedroom for two activities so I don’t need a lot of room. My husband would be on board for windowless for the same sensory deprivation tank feel as David. I would miss the natural air, though. Those closets, though *faints*

I’m not crazy about anything on the ground level, including the sauna or cold plunge, but it’s just a me thing. Maybe the leather chairs in the media room, they were nice. The main thing I came away with is that Lily and David are a lovely couple. They’re so connected and I adore that their home is a balance of both of them, with things from their pasts and compromise in every room. I might save this video for whenever I need a pick-me-up. Also, I’m absolutely adding, “No, no – don’t mess with that. That’s my moment” to my lexicon (minute 3:00).

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