Lily Allen’s marriage — and subsequent split in 2024 — from Stranger Things alum David Harbour was the latest development in her dramatic love life.

The Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter has generated countless headlines for her two marriages — first to Sam Cooper and then to Harbour — as well as for her frank comments about her romantic prospects for the future.

“The dating scene is much harder as a 40-year-old woman with two teenage children than it is for a 34-year-old woman,” she admitted to Paper Magazine in October 2025. “It’s bitterly disappointing. There’s an element of humiliation and shame around it. The world doesn’t portray women of my age as being desirable.”

She went on, “[Dating] just feels like climbing up a mountain. But also, at the same time, I’m like, I don’t

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