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Daily Mail
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Lily Allen looks strikingly different as she debuts stunning new look and ditches her signature red tresses after her split from husband David Harbour
Lily Allen debuted a stunning new hairstyle on social media on Wednesday. The singer, 40, who confirmed her split from husband David Harbour, 50, at the end of last year, took to her Instagram to show off her glamorous new look. She visited New York's celebrity hair salon Suite Caroline to change up her look as she ditched her trademark signature red locks. Instead, she rocked a short, voluminous raven black blowout with a full fringe as she opted for a 'goth' change to her look. She captioned the stunning snaps: 'Goth girl summer.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. For the salon visit, the Smile hitmaker cut a stylish figure in a trendy black leather Miu Miu jacket, which retails for £5,500. Her new look comes after she revealed that she has been 'feeling incredibly low' and lonely in her New York City home after her split from David. She explained that she has been feeling 'extremely heavy' as she 'doesn't have that much to do here' in the city. Lily moved to Brooklyn in 2020 to be closer to David, enrolling her daughters - Ethel Mary Cooper, 13, and Marnie Rose, 11 - in local schools. Telling how she will be taking a break from social media, The Fear hitmaker said there is 'nothing filling the gaps' as she is no longer doom scrolling. Speaking to Miquita Oliver on their BBC 's Miss Me? Podcast, Lily said: 'I'm nearly two weeks into complete social media ban. 'I interestingly enough the beginning of last week I was feeling incredibly low, like lower than I've felt in months. It was extremely heavy. 'And then I realised maybe this is because I'm not filling the gaps with doom scrolling, and I've suddenly got this time for like reflection, you know what I mean. She continued: 'I don't have that much to do here in New York during the day, and so I guess I would find myself sitting on Instagram and scrolling or being narcissistic and posting or reading my responses and getting that dopamine fix. 'And I haven't had it for nearly two weeks, and I think it made me initially really sad. 'I think I was having withdrawal symptoms. It was horrible. I mean, I really did feel like I was withdrawing from drugs or something. It was crazy. 'But it took me a minute to think, "Oh yeah, it was probably that"'. Lily split from Stranger Things actor David late last year after four years of marriage at the end of last year. The couple tied the knot in Vegas in 2020, before moving from London to the United States. However, last December, friends confirmed they had split after living 'separate lives' for months. Lily previously said of their split: 'I am not over it. I am sort of running away. Maybe I will have a nervous breakdown.' The former couple originally met on the celebrity dating app Raya in 2019. Previously speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Lily shared that she was only 'swiping for a bit of fun' when she came across David dressed as a 'sexy policeman'. 'I didn't know who he was. I thought he was just like a sexy policeman from a reality TV show because he was wearing a policeman's uniform. It was a still from Stranger Things. I'd never seen Stranger Things,' she said. 'I don't even know what I was looking for. It was just something to do on holiday, swiping, it's a bit of fun. 'When I met him, I didn't think it was going to go anywhere. He was here filming Black Widow. He was only going to be here for a couple of months. And then it did [go somewhere].' Not long before their split, Lily turned amateur sleuth after speculating that David had 'cheated' on the same dating app. She was left in 'agony' when she allegedly discovered the actor had a secret profile on the celebrity dating app Raya, The Mail on Sunday revealed. The pop star joined the app herself, pretending to be 'looking for women' – and allegedly found that David had already set up a dating profile. He was reportedly listed on the app as being active for at least a month. It comes after Lily was left in 'agony' earlier this year when she allegedly discovered the actor had a secret profile on the celebrity dating app Raya, The Mail on Sunday revealed Raya is so exclusive that it accepts only around eight per cent of applicants, but it has more than 10,000 members, with 100,000 on the waiting list. Once users find a new partner, they usually disable their profiles. A source said: 'Lily was looking for women that were on Raya and cross-referencing them with women David follows on Instagram to try to figure out who he was seeing. She was doing her Wagatha thing. 'Lily only rejoined Raya to try to figure out whether he was seeing someone. 'Lily has never even looked at anyone since she met David. She is devastated. He broke up with Lily a month ago. 'He was meant to be on holiday with her in Kenya over Christmas.' David's alleged dating profile, exclusively revealed by the Mail on Sunday, read: 'Visiting New York from Atlanta' and 'closet nerd that plays tough guys on your TV'. It also described him as living in Atlanta, Georgia, 800 miles from the family home in Brooklyn, New York, where the couple moved in 2020, with Lily enrolling her children in local schools. He bought a house in Atlanta last year to be closer to the Stranger Things set as the show was filming its fifth and final series. Lily's circle of London friends said she had suspected for some time that her husband was interested in other women. By the time the couple broke up, she had become convinced that he had a secret girlfriend.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Leeds goth hall of fame celebrates the scene's who's who
A display showcasing the who's who of the goth world in Leeds has been unveiled in a new exhibition celebrating the city's part in the modern of people turned out for the opening of the Leeds Goth Hall of Fame at the city's museum to coincide with World Goth its gloomy atmosphere and aesthetics, goth is one of the most iconic music genres and scenes and has its roots firmly embedded in Rose, of Leeds Festival of Gothica, said: "This is where the scene and genre as we know it was birthed. It was where the bats were really first released." Home to bands like The Sisters of Mercy, Salvation, and The March Violets, the city also had venues like The Faversham and The Phono, which provided space for the scene to develop in the 1980s, before it caught on in Rose added: "The whole crux of why we started to do this was to really spotlight the heritage of the goth scene and the alternative scene in Leeds and give it its place." Ms Rose said the 17 photos featured in the display were chosen from hundreds of submissions of people, objects, bands, shops and venues which were integral to the goth scene. "There's bits around dance, bits around clothing and shops," she said."We've got a real reflection of real life from prolific bands that people know. It's about that real life experience." Maria Martin, who features in the display, said she felt "really honoured" to be recognised, adding that it was "about time" the city did something to celebrate its place as "the goth capital of the world"."These people that say it all started at the Bat Cave in London are just lying, it all started here in Leeds."Ms Martin, who worked in the city's well-know goth clothing shop Bad, said growing up in Birstall she was the "only goth in the village" and later moved to Leeds."When I worked in Bad, I got to see what was going on and how there were lots of other people who looked like me."She said featuring in the hall was about "acceptance"."It means everything. It means acceptance, it means celebration, it means validation."Danny Mass, of goth rock band Salvation, who also features in the display, said: "[Leeds] is definitely where goth started."It's good to have this day to be recognised and for Leeds to be put on the map," he added. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
The Guardian
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
My cultural awakening: a Pulp song made me realise I was in love with my best friend
The first time Gordon and I kissed I thought we'd made a terrible mistake. It was 1995, we were both 20 years old, and we were drinking at our university bar in Leicester. We had formed a friendship over the previous three years, but I had never considered Gordon in a romantic light. He was a goth at the time, which I thought was very cool, and he had this fruity, posh voice – whereas I was a timid girl from south London with a terrible perm. I remember Gordon leaning in to give me this very innocent, tentative kiss, but it caught me off guard. I felt excited but also confused. For one thing, I'd only ever known Gordon to kiss his fellow goths. I avoided Gordon for weeks after that, which was difficult, considering we were on the same course. We bumped into each other almost every day in lectures but I made things awkward. Conversations between us didn't flow in the same way. I'm an overthinker, whereas Gordon is much more relaxed. I think he would have been happy to keep kissing me in a casual sort of way and see where things led, but I was frightened of ruining our friendship. I was so shy at that time, and didn't connect with people as easily as Gordon did. I had very deep feelings for him, but I wasn't able to acknowledge them. Gordon was the closest person to me and I was terrified of losing him by having a fling. One morning about two months after the kiss I was lying in bed listening to the radio and Chris Evans's show came on. I've always found him quite annoying, so I was about to switch channels, but then he said: 'We've got a new song from Pulp.' Gordon was a huge Pulp fan so I lay back and listened. I remember it was Jarvis's voice that really got me. He sings in such a beautiful way and it lets you hear the lyrics. The song was Something Changed, and it tells the story of a kind of sliding doors moment in the singer's life. Jarvis sets the song hours before he meets the love of his life, and he imagines what life would have been like if he'd never bothered to go out that night. If he'd just gone home and stayed in bed instead. Listening to him sing about that, I had this moment of clarity. All my awkwardness and fear of rejection evaporated. I had this sudden, overwhelming certainty that Gordon was the one for me. I felt like this was the pivotal moment of my life, and that I didn't want to stay in bed and miss it. There's this line in the song where Jarvis asks: 'Do you believe that there's someone up above? / And does he have a timetable directing acts of love?' This sounds a bit daft, but lying in my bed at uni, I really felt like Jarvis was mapping out my destiny. It was the push I needed. I got dressed immediately after the song ended, and ran to university. I cornered Gordon after our lecture, looked him dead in the eyes and told him that I'd heard Pulp's song and it had made me rethink everything between us. I think he was a little taken aback at first that I'd had such an abrupt change of heart after dodging him for months – but he's such an open, loving person, he rolled with it. He was just extremely relieved that the massive wall I'd built between us had finally come down. The strange thing was that he'd heard Something Changed on the radio that morning too, but he hadn't liked it. He said something dismissive like: 'It's not quite the same as Pulp's usual stuff.' He definitely didn't see the song in the way that I did. He wasn't exactly on board with my grand theory that Jarvis Cocker had cosmically altered the course of our whole lives. We've been together for 30 years now, and I'm pleased to say Something Changed has grown on Gordon. We play it on our anniversaries, and it's become Our Song. One of the very last lyrics is: 'Where would I be now, where would I be now if we'd never met? / Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?' I often think about that line. I was so shy as a young woman, I really don't think I would ever have had the courage to let down my wall and admit my feelings for Gordon if I hadn't heard that song at that precise moment in my university bedroom. So maybe I would have just gone on with my life without Gordon, and heard the song a decade later, in the car alone, or with some other boyfriend. Today, Gordon and I could both be singing it with someone else instead – and I'm so happy we're not. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion Did a cultural moment prompt you to make a major life change? Email us at
