Lily Allen has stepped again from her hit BBC podcast Miss Me? which she’s hosted for over a 12 months with greatest pal Miquita Oliver.

The Smile hitmaker, 40, introduced her departure from the present this week after the besties launched it in March 2024, explaining how she wanted to give attention to different commitments, main followers to suspect she could be engaged on new music.

Lily and Miquita, 41, are excess of work associates – although they’ve discovered success of their skilled collaboration, having damaged by means of a loud podcast area with their trustworthy chats and candid confessions, even profitable a British Podcast Award.

Their relationship is much deeper than that: the pair spent their childhoods collectively mucking round in Ladbroke Grove and have been by one another’s facet by means of all their highs and lows.

The pair’s moms – movie producer Alison Owen and TV chef Andi Oliver – are associates, so the 2 00s icons spent a lot time with one another as kids, additionally attending the identical faculty, earlier than both of them discovered fame within the noughties.

TV face Miquita was the primary of the 2 to completely step out into the highlight, as she bagged a gig presenting Pop World in 2001 when she was 16 for 5 years alongside comic Simon Amstell.

Lily – who beforehand admitted it was Miquita’s enterprise into the music world that made her need to turn into a popstar – launched her debut album Alright, Nonetheless in 2006 when she turned 21.

Within the 00s the pair spent heady younger years partying collectively in London, and whereas Lily is now sober and Miquita nonetheless enjoys a drink, their friendship has advanced with age.

‘We had a good time. I liked partying and I like going out and I nonetheless drink, I nonetheless exit, but it surely’s not a part of our friendship any extra and it doesn’t really feel like a loss. It hasn’t been for thus lengthy. I don’t actually need to try this proper now,’ Miquita stated in an interview with Grazia.

‘I believe it reminds individuals of their very own relationships with their greatest associates,’ Lily added of their podcast’s reputation. ‘It’s like a type of nostalgia, not essentially for a time period, however for long-term, platonic relationships.’

‘We’re household,’ Miquita added.

In a video interview with The Instances, Lily stated of their shut childhoods: ‘When my mum was not in patch I’d come to yours to get fed, and when your mum was not in patch you’d come to thoughts to get fed.’

Lily additionally mirrored that by means of the present their relationship is the ‘healthiest it’s ever been’.

Similar to any household, the pair’s relationship has endured its tensions over time.

In June final 12 months on Miss Me? Miquita known as out her pal over a historic feud between the 2 which resulted in her not talking to Lily for six months, based on Each day Mail.

The presenter had as soon as confided in Lily about an unnamed pop star she was besotted with, just for her greatest mate to fly to Japan to have intercourse with him.

‘I’d like to inform a narrative about when Lily Allen sabotaged me,’ the radio presenter introduced to which her co-presenter requested: ‘What?!’

Miquita ploughed on, stating: ‘There was a pop star within the early noughties, I came upon that he fancied me. I instructed Lily that I preferred him.’

Nonetheless, she quickly found her buddy was not supportive of this crush as Lily replied: ‘Properly really, I like him.’

‘Properly, that doesn’t really matter as a result of he likes me,’ got here Miquita’s retort however the Not Truthful singer wasn’t deterred so simply.

She continued: ‘Cue Lily, will get herself to a pageant in Japan and seduces him. Seduced him together with her wily methods.’

Lily then known as Miquita the subsequent day to admit the entire thing.

‘I’ve by no means been that indignant with you in my complete life,’ vented the previous Popworld host. ‘Did you assume that you just have been sabotaging me in that act?

‘Or have been you simply getting yours?’

Defending herself, Lily responded: ‘I fancied him, so I used to be getting mine. By the way in which, I believe pop stars are honest recreation, like, I don’t care.’

Laughing, Miquita replied: ‘That’s the actual reply. That’s the f***ing actual reply. If I didn’t hate you a lot for it, I’d have applauded you. It was admirable.’

‘I flew to Japan to lock that one in,’ the LDN singer grinned again as her buddy dubbed it ‘ruthless’.

Early on within the podcast recording, Miquita dropped her personal reality bomb on Lily when requested by a listener whether or not there’s a lie between them that both occasion has nonetheless not admitted.

‘You already know that I kissed Toby proper?’ stated Miquita of Lily’s ex, to which the popstar replied: ‘Once I was with him?’

On affirmation of this, by means of a smile Lily stated: ‘Oh my god. No I didn’t.’

In a light-hearted however considerably tense phase, Miquita stated it was in somebody’s front room and Lily was upstairs.

‘I’d be actually indignant with you…’ started Lily, earlier than Miquita interjected: ‘You may’t probably be!’

Lily then clapped again: ‘I’ve f***ed a great deal of your boyfriends, so…’

The pair laughed, as Miquita requested for affirmation on whether or not Lily slept with a person known as Jasper.

‘I did,’ confessed Lily, including: ‘Nevertheless it was 10 years after you cut up up.’

The pair went on to bicker about it, as Miquita stated Toby was a fling – however Lily stated she was with him for a 12 months – earlier than the singer leant again in her seat with a resolute: ‘F**ok you.’

The Impartial reported that in an episode of Miss Me? in October the pair overtly mentioned how they’ve needed to overcome jealousy of their friendship.