Lily Allen says James Corden is her famous “beg friend”: “He was very flirtatious with me”

Lily Allen has said that the “very flirtatious” James Corden is the celebrity that was once her “beg friend”.

The ‘Smile’ singer was responding to a question on a recent episode of her BBC podcast Miss Me?, which she hosts alongside the TV presenter Miquita Oliver.

The fan asked whether either of them had any “surprise beg friends” who were “actually famous”. A beg friend is defined as someone who begs for attention in the needy hope of forming a friendship, even if the recipient has no interest in it.

“Yeah James Corden was a bit of a beg friend for me,” Allen replied. “[He] came on my chat show and was very flirtatious with me, and we sort of made friends and I introduced him to a group of my friends.”

“I’d say if I’ve ever had a famous beggy friend it was James Corden, back in the day,” she continued. “He’s not begging me anymore. I’m not begging him either… I can’t do anything for him now. He’s good.”

“And he knows it,” added Oliver, “so he’s not sniffing round here!”

The Gavin & Stacey writer and star appeared on BBC show Lily Allen and Friends in 2008, with the two only having met fleetingly beforehand. In the episode, he is openly suggestive with the singer, causing her to say to the live audience that he was asking her to “just fuck me”.

Elsewhere, earlier this month Allen spoke about the “eye-opening” response she has had to opening her OnlyFans account, on which she sells photos of her feet.

Speaking on her podcast, she said: “It is going very well. It’s been a real eye-opener. Obviously after our podcast last week, it had been quite widely reported about me and my foray into content creating feet content. I’ve had a lot of disparaging, you know, horrible messages in my DMs. I’m talking really personal, nasty.”

“It seems to me what I’m taking from these, mainly men, is that women should only really be selling images of herself or access to her body when it is an absolute last resort.”

“I think its a socio-economic issue in a lot of ways, the fact that I’m making money from this podcast and that I’m in a relationship – which by the way my husband happens to support the choices that I make – and I have kids means that I shouldn’t you know be “stooping so low” as to be profiting from my own body,” she continued.

She also recently revealed how her husband David Harbour reacted to her decision to create the OnlyFans page.

Corden, meanwhile, delayed the start of his play The Constituent earlier this month so that he could watch the penalty shootout between England and Switzerland in the Euros.