Lily Allen Says 'record Label Failed To Act On Assault'

[NellieMay]

On BBC news site, but I can't copy the link. Perhaps someone can do it for me.

Would be interested to know the views of ABers on this. I personally can't see that it warrants being News and do have my own views. Just want to see if others agree.

Apologies if this has already been raised on AB.

[Bigbad]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45546244

This one NellieMay?

[NellieMay]

Yes, thank you Bigbad

[Bobbisox1]

Oh the same Lily Allen who went to Calais and told them they should be allowed here ( only not in her back garden) she tends to court the media every so often, if she has been sexually assaulted then she needs to name her assailant to the police to let them deal with it

[NellieMay]

Agree Bobbie. And leave bringing it out into the open until you have a book being released. And thinks her record label should do something about I. She was interviewed this morning and has jumped onto the me too bandwagon! Never have like her.

[Bobbisox1]

Me either NM,have no time for her at all

[Ken4155]

Got to ask. If both of you were avid fans of hers, would your opinions be different?

[Bobbisox1]

If I was an avid fan of hers , it would be a miracle at my age ;0/

[Ken4155]

Is that you evading the question, Bobbiesox? :-)

[NellieMay]

Ken. Absolutely not. I would think the same of anybody who acts like her. This is just another example of her constant attention seeking. I actually quite like her as a performer.

[Bobbisox1]

Not at all, I don't like her views on things political, I don't like her music, therefore , I don't like Lily Allen

[derek-33]

both lothsom her and her father

[naomi24]

I hadn't heard about this before. I wonder why it's just made news?

//In her book, titled My Thoughts Exactly//

Oh ... I see.

[Old_Geezer]

I feel sure everyone can post a link. It's as simple as highlighting the address in the browser, (including any http:// or https:// that'll probably be seen as a link now) copying it (may need to right click to get menu) right clicking in the answer box here and pasting (ensuring it isn't touching some other text either at the start or the end). Just need to experiment until one works out how to copy and paste in one's particular browser.

[fender62]

her album is not selling, so needs attention by any means.

[Mamyalynne]

The article linked to above is from last year.

This is today's article in 'Entertainments' - not that anyone's interested in discussing sexual assaults in the showbiz world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49682923

[HBAnorak]

Looks as if she is doing a series of book promotion interviews, as people with books out tend to do (most of the guests on any TV or radio talk show are promoting something), set up by the publisher's PR people I imagine. The sexual assault story is in the book, so interviewers ask her about it, and she answers their questions.
Kind of the opposite of what is being suggested by some comments in this thread: she is not proactively seeking interviews about that episode as a cunning way to sneak in a mention of her book - the book is the reason why she is being interviewed in the first place. If she wasn't doing this, it would be more worthy of comment: it's what people have to do as part of the deal when they have a book published

[HBAnorak]

… is what I would have said a year ago after reading that link!

[Mamyalynne]

That's why it's in the Entertainments section.

Certainly she should have reported the assault.

[NellieMay]

At over 70, I dont do the avid fan thing ;o)

[Prudie]

I stopped taking notice of what she said ages ago. A publicity hound. I will say that I could probably go to the press about at least 10 males who've sexually assaulted me in my life - based on the current definition of that phrase - were I or they famous and if I were so inclined.