And Finally Beef Of The Week

CMU Beef Of The Week #08: Courtney Love v Lily Allen

By | Published on Saturday 27 February 2010

What’s that, Courtney Love back in the Beef Of The Week slot? So soon? Well, we did say we expected to see her here on a semi-regular basis. She is quite beefy. Whatever the hell that means.

Things kicked off ahead of the BRIT Awards last week, after Courtney complained that Lily had made a deal with fashion house Chanel which stopped the Hole frontwoman from wearing the dress she wanted to. Love said via Twitter: “I wanted a Chanel couture dress but Lily Allen blocked them out. And that’s lame, because I remember J-Lo had a lock out on Valentino one year but she shared with me”.

The feud continued onto this week’s NME Awards, where both were performing (Love with her new solo version of Hole and Lily with The Big Pink). Though the pair were apparently initially chatting happily backstage during the ceremony, according to the NME, Love later turned, branding Lily a “little girl” and shouting: “Welcome to the music industry”. Lily then reportedly shouted back: “Why the fuck did you say that to me?” and stormed off in tears.

Taking things back to the safer shores of Twitter, Lily gave her side of the story yesterday, denying that the run in had been quite the slanging match that had been reported. She wrote: “Just clearing a couple of things up. Courtney Love and I did NOT have a bust up at the NMEs. There was an exchange of words, yes. She’s upset because she has got it into her head that I put a lock on some dresses for the BRIT Awards. She’s made no secret of this and, when I saw her at the NMEs she tried to talk to me and I told her to shut up stop spreading stupid rumours about me. And that’s pretty much it. I would never fight with her, as a rule I don’t pick on crazy old ladies”.

Love responded by tweeting: “Pretty darn rich coming from someone who starts nonsensical fights with people out of insecure jealousy on a weekly basis. At least when I’ve started fights with people it’s because they fuck [with] my kid or fuck [with] my money. No further comment, hatred is not my drink, I don’t like jealousy, vindictiveness, stalkers, selfishness and dishonesty, that’s just me!”

Speaking of Courtney and money, elsewhere at the NME Awards she tried to convince another celebrity to let her handle his tax affairs. Ms Love put herself forward as an expert on such matters last year. This time she was offering financial advice to her old mate Noel Fielding. Though, strangely, she decided to bring it all up while the pair were on stage presenting the award for Best Album to Kasabian.

Fielding more insightfully announced: “I just had a Pot Noodle with Slash”.

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