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Ekin Karasin

Lily Allen gives blistering verdict on ex Liam Gallagher's Oasis gigs and calls it the 'patriarchy at work'

Lily Allen has shared her true feelings on her ex Liam Gallagher’s Oasis concerts after their infamous fling.

The Smile singer, 40, and Oasis frontman, 53, had a brief dalliance in 2009, with Allen previously claiming they joined the mile high club on a flight to Tokyo.

She has now shared her verdict on Liam and his brother Noel’s Oasis shows as part of their comeback tour in an interview with Perfect Magazine.

Allen said that while she “loves” the Britpop band and recently went to their gig and end-of-tour party, she thinks there’s a double standard between male and female musicians.

The hitmaker claimed Liam can “do nothing with his entire body” and fans will still go wild, whereas female singers have to put in a dramatic dance performance.

“That's the patriarchy at work. I went to see Oasis play on Sunday night and I thought it was f***ing great. I love Oasis. Noel is a fantastic songwriter and I enjoyed every minute of it,” she said.

Gallagher performing in August (AFP via Getty Images)

Allen went on: “But in contrast to that, I went to see Lady Gaga the next night at the O2 and the difference in what a woman has to put into a show to be able to exist in show business, it's like night and day.

“You have to justify your existence as a woman, whereas you don't as a man. Liam Gallagher can just sing a song and go 'Nice one' afterwards and do nothing with his entire body and people go f***ing mental.”

Allen claimed fans would be “outraged” if Lady Gaga just sang onstage without doing any dancing.

The Not Fair singer - who split from her actor husband David Harbour in December - previously claimed she had a wild romp with Gallagher on a plane.

She claimed in her 2018 autobiography, My Thoughts Exactly, that she met Gallagher on a flight to Japan for the Fuji Rock Festival.

Allen pictured in 2009 when she claimed she had a fling with Gallagher (PA)

She said they got “hammered” together and had sex in the toilets and later headed to his hotel - despite Gallagher being married to All Saints singer Nicole Appleton at the time.

Allen, who said she had “grown up an Oasis fan,” claimed: “We got hammered on the plane.

“At some point Liam and I found ourselves together in the toilet doing something that he shouldn't have been doing, and it wasn't drugs.

“Then we were in a lie-down bed together.”

She claimed Appleton later found out about their alleged dalliance and Gallagher “begged” her to deny that anything had happened.

Gallagher married Appleton in 2008 after eight years of dating.

They divorced after Appleton discovered the rocker had fathered a child with American journalist Liza Ghorbani while they were together.

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