{"id":183990,"date":"2025-12-14T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:41:07","slug":"lily-allen-joined-on-snl-by-dakota-johnson-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183990\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen joined on SNL by Dakota Johnson playing\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lily-allen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lily Allen<\/a> was joined on Saturday Night Live by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dakota-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dakota Johnson<\/a>, who played the infamous \u201cMadeline\u201d in a surprise cameo.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, 40, was performing the track from the West End Girl album on Saturday (13 December) when Johnson appeared on stage to offer Madeline\u2019s version of events.<\/p>\n<p>She then walked up behind Allen and planted a kiss on her cheek, as she said: \u201cLove and light, Madeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October, the singer launched her first album in seven years. It <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/reviews\/lily-allen-review-west-end-girl-david-harbour-b2850971.html\">has been widely reported to refer to the circumstances around her divorce from Stranger Things star David Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews, Allen has insisted that Madeline in both tracks is a \u201cfictional character\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Allen was joined on Saturday Night Live by Dakota Johnson, who played the infamous \u201cMadeline\u201d in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,157,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,255],"class_list":["post-183990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}