Lily Allen is reflecting on an terrible rape joke made about her years in the past.
In a brand new interview with Grazia printed on Monday, the 38-year-old singer opened up about her expertise within the highlight in the course of the “toxic media landscape” that was the early aughts. She particularly recalled one disgusting second — which went viral amid the sexual assault allegations in opposition to 48-year-old comic Russell Brand — when she appeared on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year in 2007 with him, Jimmy Carr, Noel Fielding, and Jonathan Ross.
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At the start of the episode, Jonathan switched seats with Lily, calling her “the only sexually attractive young lady” on the present. His reasoning? The Jonathan Ross Show host defined he was solely making an attempt to guard her by shifting her away from Russell and Noel to the “sexless zone,” including:
“And then Lily may go home with her dress still on.”
WTF?! To which Noel instantly responded:
“How dare you – we’re not rapists.”
Jimmy then questioned why The Great British Bake Off host was sporting a cape “if [he] wasn’t a rapist.” Noel fired again that the cape was really nothing greater than a Jack the Ripper cape — you realize, the London serial killer who ended the lives of a number of girls within the late 1800s. That is when Russell chimed in to level out that the particular person was a “serial murderer,” including:
“There’s a difference. There is no direct corollary between rapes and capes, it’s just a rhyme. Leave him alone.”
All on digicam, your complete back-and-forth was a gross second of those males joking about rape with Lily on the heart. Take a glance (beneath):
Not OK in any respect. But as we’ve realized over the previous few weeks in mild of the assault accusations, issues have resurfaced about Russell’s lengthy, lengthy historical past of problematic and vile habits. Now reflecting on the alternate with Grazia, Lily stated the entire expertise on the present was each “uncomfortable” and “horrendous.” She stated:
“[There was a clip] where I was on a chat show with Russell Brand and Noel Fielding and Jonathan Ross. And there are comments, I think, about me being raped or something. And I laugh along with it. In retrospect, that’s really horrendous. It makes me uncomfortable, but I don’t think I felt that at the time, because it was the culture.”
Neither Russell, Jimmy, Noel, or Jonathan have addressed the decision out from Lily. What are your ideas on the resurfaced second, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback.
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[Image via UK To The World/BBC Newsnight/The Jonathan Ross Show/YouTube]