Willicombe said he recognised her straight away as she came into the store with her family and team. <\/p>\n
“She was browsing the records with her daughter and picked up a few”, which included albums from Oasis, The Smiths and Wet Leg.<\/p>\n
“When she came to pay I told her I’m a big fan and said how jealous my girlfriend was gonna be that I had met her.” he added.<\/p>\n
Willicombe said they even joked about missing out on tickets to her Cardiff show, that sold out quickly.<\/p>\n
“I tried to ring my girlfriend when Lily was in the store but she was busy.<\/p>\n
“Her dad suggested I take a photo with Lily to make my girlfriend jealous”, which they did.<\/p>\n
He added that as she was leaving, her father returned to the shop with a programme from the show as a gift. <\/p>\n
Lily Allen isn’t the first famous face to visit Kelly’s, as Idles front man Joe Talbot from Newport has previously popped in.<\/p>\n
“Joe was on his own when he came in so we had a really nice conversation about the times I’ve been to see Idles perform.”<\/p>\n
Willicombe said Cardiff’s laid-back atmosphere meant celebrities could often explore the city without much attention.<\/p>\n
“Big stars come to Cardiff and do walk through the city.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty low key and they can enjoy browsing the store.<\/p>\n
The visit comes as Lily Allen tours the UK in support of her comeback to music, with the album West End Girl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willicombe said he recognised her straight away as she came into the store with her family and team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}