BEST OF FRENEMIES

This week’s instalment of Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s candid podcast saw the duo open up about what happened when the singer slept with the TV presenter’s crush. Is this a huge friendship taboo or fair game, asks Katie Rosseinsky

-  Katie Rosseinsky

In the latest episode of Miss Me?, the BBC podcast that Lily Allen hosts alongside her longtime friend Miquita Oliver, the singer-slash-actor dropped a bit of a bombshell. Allen, I should add, is no stranger to making controversial pronouncements when she’s in the general vicinity of a microphone (as anyone who remembers her various album promotional cycles will surely be aware), and her podcast has been particularly candid. So far, she’s revealed that she lets her husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour, control her phone use, shared her plans to fly to New York in first class while her daughter sits in economy, and even dared to call Beyoncé’s “Jolene” cover “very weird”.

But her latest comments seem to have got people really riled up – because they get to the heart of an age-old debate: should you ever go after your friend’s crush (especially when they’ve made their feelings clear about that person)?

TV presenter Oliver set the scene for listeners, taking us back to the early Noughties when she was hosting