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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Miranda Sawyer

‘People like it because it’s the messy truth’: Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver on their hit podcast Miss Me?

Miquita Oliver and Lily Allen
‘We have to have pure communication’: Miquita Oliver and Lily Allen. Allen: jumper by 16Arlington. Oliver: top by Conner Ives. Photograph: Perou/The Observer

In a photographer’s studio in north London, sitting at a wooden table with mugs of tea, two friends are having a chat. They’ve discussed food and clothes, but now they’re on to their actual friendship: the reason why we’re here.

“I think before this podcast,” says Miquita Oliver, “a lot of people who were aware that Lily and me have a friendship would be basing it on pictures of us leaving the Groucho pissed when we were 23…” She looks at Lily Allen, who is laughing quite hard.

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