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‘People like it because it’s the messy truth’: Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver on their hit podcast Miss Me?
The pop star and the TV presenter are longtime friends, and it’s their intimacy – and honesty – that gives their new BBC Sounds show its edge. They discuss their storied careers, and how they turn life’s challenges into audio gold
They have wide-ranging interests: there’s a lot about early 2000s style and silly romcoms, but Oliver also recently waxed lyrical about John Betjeman’s classic suburban TV documentary Metro-land and Allen, having read Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, is trying to stop her children’s mobile phone use. Such connections mean that, on the podcast, Oliver will casually mention that Lily Savage (Paul O’Grady’s drag persona) was the first person to ever do her makeup, or Allen will chat about being friends with Elton John, and then feeling resentful when he stopped getting in touch. She was accused of racism in 2013 because her Hard Out Here video featured black dancers in fewer clothes than her, mocked for passing out drunk at Notting Hill carnival, and slagged off for raising issues around refugees by going to a migrant camp in Calais.
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