Lily Allen's Plane Seat Was Covered In Toenails

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4 days ago

It's fair to say that airplanes are objectively gross places, with most lucky to feel the touch of an antibacterial wipe once a month — despite countless different people coughing, sneezing, and who knows what else all over them daily.
However, Lily Allen's recent transatlantic flight might just take the crown when it comes to public transport grossness, with the British singer revealing that her seat was covered in somebody's toenail clippings when she boarded.
And if I have to know about this story, then you do, too.
Speaking on Monday's episode of her podcast Miss Me?, Lily told her co-host, Miquita Oliver: 'When I flew back here, to England from New York, it was on a different airline than I normally go on, and I noticed there was a toenail in the bit next to the thing, and then I noticed one, and then I kept seeing them.'
Lily did not reveal which airline she was flying with, and explained that staff were unable to relocate her — and left her to clean up the mess herself.'I asked the guy, I was like: 'Can I move seats because somebody's been clipping their fucking toenails in this seat?' And he was like: 'I'm sorry, we're completely fully booked,' oversubscribed, or whatever,' Lily went on. 'And I was like: 'Can I have a sick bag and some wipes then, so I can clean these toenails up?''
'He came back with two wipes and a sick bag, and I cleaned up the toenails that I had in my field of vision, shall we say,' she continued. 'Then I went to put them, the sick bag, down in the storage bit or whatever, once it was all sealed, folded up, and then I saw, in the cupholder, another three toenails.'
'I was like: 'Whoever was sitting in this seat was taking the fucking piss!'' Lily exclaimed. 'Anyway, I cleaned up those, I went to sleep, and when I woke up, the manager of the whole flight was looming over me, and she was like: 'I'm sorry, madam,' and I basically got comped the flight. They gave me enough airmails to buy a whole new flight.'
'Toenails!' Lily concluded. 'What is wrong with people, seriously?!'
Not gonna lie, Miquita's reaction here sums the whole thing up pretty nicely.
Anyway, I think I speak for everyone when I say that the airmiles were the least the airline could do in that situation, and Lily definitely handled it way better than I would have. As always, let me know your thoughts in the comments below!