03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Lily Allen on 'run-in' with dad at Glastonbury after rocky relationship
Lily reveals a emotional catch up with her dad after bumping to him in Glastonbury
Lily Allen has revealed she bumped into her dad at Glastonbury and was left touched when he showed up to watch her perform.
The singer, 39, said on her BBC Sounds show that she spotted her father Keith Allen tucking into pie and mash at the festival, completely unplanned.
She said: 'My dad came to see me play with Shy FX. It was really sweet. I ran into him, he was up at the park just having a pie and mash, and I hadn't called him or told him that I was going or anything. I just spotted him and I went over and I was like, da-da! And he was like, hello, baby.'
Lily added: 'And he was like, what are you doing later? I said, oh, I'm playing up at the temple. And he was like, oh, well, we'll definitely come to that. And I didn't really, you know, people say that they'll come to things and then they don't.
'And then when I turned up there, like five minutes before Shy's set started. I got there and my dad and Tom Pumphrey and Nicky Kentish-Barnes and Steve Mallet and all the cousins, everyone was there, like 20 of them, it was so sweet.
'And I wasn't on until right at the end of Shy's set, so they all like raved in the heat to drum and bass."
"Gracie said that my dad was like so proud looking and was like, she said it was her favourite moment of the whole weekend.'
The candid story comes after years of publicly strained relations between Lily and her dad. On her Miss Me podcast, she admitted she has 'complicated relationships' with some relatives and isn't sure she's ready to fix them.
At the time, she told listeners: 'I have complicated relationships with some of my family members and I do sometimes think, 'Hmm, if they died, it would be quite sad to have those things unresolved.' But I'm quite stubborn so it's a tricky one, isn't it?'
Lily previously said she was estranged from her dad in 2021, and in her memoir My Thoughts Exactly, she called him a 'self-saboteur' and claimed he'd suffered a cocaine-related heart attack at Glastonbury in 1998 - something Keith insisted was actually food poisoning.
In a 2015 tweet, Lily also wrote 'My dad walked out on me when I was four, I'm sick of this. My dad was at Latitude when I headlined and didn't even come to see me. I've probably spent more time walking my dogs than I have with my dad my entire life.'
Despite their rocky history, her Glastonbury encounter with Keith seems to have been a rare sweet moment for the pair.
