Lily Allen to release secret collaboration with Little Mix star after teasing fans by saying ‘I’m not done’
LILY ALLEN has long been a fan of Jade Thirlwall and now they’ve teamed up for a collaboration.
I can reveal she has recorded a new version of her West End Girl album track Beg For Me with the Angel Of My Dreams singer, with the new take set to drop tomorrow.
Lily teased the release of a new track on Instagram on Tuesday night – which I can confirm will be this one.
She shared a video with the caption: “Oops decided I’m not done ;)) got another song for youuu.”
The move will raise hopes that Jade could be a special guest when Lily headlines Mighty Hoopla festival in Brockwell Park, South London, on Saturday night.
Jade is a massive fan of the event and performed there last year, with Lily previously teasing she had surprises in store for fans at the show.
The Smile singer rocketed back into the spotlight last October when she dropped West End Girl.
It documented, in gritty detail, the breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour.
Then in January, Lily confirmed: “I’m doing a remix version of the album, where different female artists are responsible for each of the songs.”
Getting Jade on board is certainly a strong start.
Rodrigo-go dancers
OLIVIA RODRIGO made a right song and dance on the set of her new video.
She was in New York wearing a dark jumper and knee-high boots, flanked by a troupe of ballerinas.
Olivia has unveiled the tracklist to her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, which will be out in a fortnight.
It will be split into two halves, with the first, Girl So In Love, featuring recent single Drop Dead.
The second half, You Seem Pretty Sad, the track The Cure.
Alfie on facing himself
ALFIE BOE delivered a magical performance at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday as he revealed the truth about his new album Face Myself.
The singer and musical theatre star had the crowd belting out his new songs as well as previous covers, including Leona Lewis’s Run and Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.
He said of the album: “The reason why I call it Face Myself is because I wanted to really look back at everything that has gone on for me in my life, and how I’ve got here today, got to this point, this minute, on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. I wanted to share with you the real Alfie Boe, the guy from Fleetwood in Lancashire.”
Macca: I’d be a teacher
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has revealed what he might have been if music mega-stardom had not come calling – an English teacher.
The Beatles legend said: “Well, when I was at school, there’s always like the careers master who tells you, you know, ‘You’re no good, you’re hopeless, I see no future for you’.
“I’d done not very well in my exams.
“I had a couple of qualifications and they told me I could maybe be an English teacher.
“So I could have been your friendly English teacher.”
During a TikTok Live, Macca, who is worth an estimated £1billion and will release his 20th solo album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane tomorrow, added:
“I probably would have enjoyed that because I like that subject, and I like English literature and stuff. So that was my fallback position.”
‘Definetly a three’ says Perrie as Jesy is out of Little Mix reunion
PERRIE EDWARDS has ruled out Jesy Nelson ever returning to Little Mix – but said she is raring to go with a reunion as a three-piece .
Jesy quit the group in 2020 and then cut off all contact.
She has since spoken to the girls again, but Perrie said that a future comeback would only involve her, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall.
Asked whether there will be a reunion, she told Attitude: “Oh, 100 per cent. I’m ready and raring.
“We always message each other and are bantering like, ‘So how long until we do a reunion? Are we going to do one? Where is it?’.
“I’m like, just give me a ballpark time. Do you know what I mean? Just let me know when.”
And pushed on whether it would be as a three or a four, she added: “A three. Definitely a three.”
For now though, Perrie – who is engaged to Celtic and former Arsenal footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – is still a solo artist and will release new single Passenger Princess on Friday.
On what the latest song is about, she said: “I love being independent, I love having my own s**t, I love doing everything for myself, being strong and a powerful woman.
“But you know, sometimes I can’t be f**ed.
“Sometimes I just want to do nothing and be like, ‘Alex, can you just help me, look after me?’, you know?”
JUDY FINNIGAN is considering a return to showbiz by launching a podcast with hubby Richard Madeley, 17 years on from their last TV series.
He said on Channel 5’s Vanessa yesterday: “We’ve had a conversation with a very good producer friend of ours, an ex-editor of This Morning, and we have kicked a few ideas around. It’s in the air.”
BAD BUNNY has joined the voice cast of new movie Toy Story 5 – as a slice of pizza in sunglasses.
The rapper has recorded his part for the film, which is out on June 19, and will arrive in the UK a week later for two sold-out shows at the Tottenham Stadium in London.
His character will be one of several items abandoned in a shed, alongside a garden gnome voiced by Capital’s Jordan North and an inflatable flamingo voiced by Sian Welby.