{"id":17976,"date":"2025-09-15T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/17976\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:38:08","slug":"lily-allen-stepping-away-from-miss-me-podcast-to-focus-on-some-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/17976\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen stepping away from ‘Miss Me?’ podcast “to focus on some other stuff”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily Allen<\/a> has said that she will be stepping away from the Miss Me? podcast so she can \u201cfocus on some other stuff for a little bit\u201d.<\/p>\n

The singer, writer and actor has co-presented the BBC podcast with Miquita Oliver for over a year now, but confirmed in today\u2019s (September 15) episode that she would be leaving the show for the foreseeable future to focus on another project.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t yet clear if someone else will be standing in for the podcast during her time away, and on the latest episode, Oliver said: \u201cI think it\u2019s good that we\u2019re gonna have some time away from doing this together, because I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll really understand what we\u2019ve done here without having that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really fucking proud of you,\u201d she added, saying that she wants Allen to \u201cgo and have some adventures and focus on your shit\u201d so they can \u201ctake Miss Me? to new places\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you do something you have to be brave to let it become other things,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd it will always be something that was started with our friendship, but I think there are more places for it to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen first shared news that she would be taking a break from the podcast in last week\u2019s episode, saying that the decision was made so that she can focus on some new projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be stepping away from the podcast to do some other things,\u201d she said in that episode. \u201cBut it\u2019s not goodbye forever, it\u2019s just goodbye for now while I go and do some new stuff for a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just have to focus on some other stuff for a little bit, and I\u2019m very grateful for the experience. I\u2019ve had so much fun, and I\u2019ve really enjoyed our live shows, especially, at the beginning of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also said that she wasn\u2019t leaving because of any negative reasons, but \u201cquite the opposite\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m doing some things that need more of my time, [because] it takes a lot of work putting the time and effort into this show\u2026 and I just don\u2019t think that I will be able to give it 100 per cent with the other stuff that\u2019s going on in my life at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not closing the door forever, I will come back and say hi now and then,\u201d Allen added, and in the latest episode the closed off the appearance by thanking her co-host and the crew behind the podcast. Listen to the latest episode above, and check out last week\u2019s episode below.<\/p>\n

While it isn\u2019t yet clear what Allen has planned for her time away from Miss Me?, it is likely that she could be turning her sights to new music and potentially working on the follow-up to 2018\u2019s \u2018No Shame<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n

This comes as the start of the year saw her share that she is \u201ctrying to manifest\u201d getting a new album \u201cout by the end of the year\u201d.<\/a> Last spring she revealed that she was working on new music in Nashville<\/a>, but found the process a bit \u201cintimidating\u201d.<\/p>\n

In January of last year, the \u2018Not Fair\u2019 singer teased that she had written around 50 new songs for her upcoming album<\/a>, although none have been shared at time of writing.<\/p>\n

Rumours of new music stem back to 2020, when Allen said that she had finished working on a new album<\/a> and was writing for three musicals; though that supposed album has never been released.<\/p>\n

Two years later, she said that she had returned to the studio<\/a> following her special guest performance at Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s Glastonbury set<\/a> in 2022. After the collaboration, Allen credited the performance with Rodrigo for \u201csparking something\u201d in her<\/a> that rekindled her yearning to write and record new music.<\/p>\n

More recently, the singer said that she has noticed her music having a \u201cresurgence\u201d online, with more young people becoming fans<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n

Outside of music, Allen has also made a name for herself in acting \u2013 both on stage and on screen. She made her theatre debut in the 2021 play 2:22 A Ghost Story, followed by 2023\u2019s The Pillowman. On-screen, she has appeared as Elizabeth Taylor in the 2019 film How To Build A Girl and as Mel in the 2023 comedy series Dreamland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Allen has said that she will be stepping away from the Miss Me? podcast so she can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,875],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}