Lily Allen has revealed she was banned from the Groucho club
The Smile singer confessed she had been excluded from the elite private members’ club for a full year.
Lily and her Miss Me? podcast cohost Miquita Oliver had been discussing whether or not they’d ever been thrown out of a pub.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been barred from a pub,” Lily, 38, said.
“I’ve been barred from a club though – Groucho’s. I was banned for a year. Who’s laughing now Groucho’s?”
The Groucho Club describes itself as a “world-renowned arts & media private members club, based in Soho, London”. It was founded in 1984 by a collective of “arts, literature and media folk”.
It’s not the first time Lily has discussed the famous club, to which her father Keith Allen had a lifetime membership.
In 2014, she explained she never wanted her own children, daughters Ethel, now 13 and Marnie, now 11, to be left to their own devices in an upstairs room at the venue, the way she claimed her father left her.
“I just want my kids to have a perfect childhood,” she said.
“Unlike mine, I didn’t want them spending the weekend in the Groucho Club in the hotel upstairs, with a Toblerone to keep them going.”
