Audience walks out on Lily Allen BBC talk show debut
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Lily Allen began shooting a new talk show on the BBC Three channel in the UK called “Lily Allen and Friends.” The BBC were hoping that Lily’s new show would help bring them the hip young audience they lack. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Lily had a taping of her first show the other day and one third of the audience walked out, because they were “bored.” The fact that the audience members were specially invited from among Miss Allen’s online “friends”, particularly doesn’t bode well.
One of the audience members who walked out told the Daily Mail, “Everyone really, really wanted it to work for Lily. She is such a lovely person but all the jokes fell flat and she seemed very nervous. It just did not work. I do think she’s got a nice voice but she didn’t sing at all. I think everyone was expecting she would.”
Another audience member said “She was halfway through her interview with David Mitchell when she seemed to forget the questions and launched into an attack on all the horrible things people had written about her on online chat forums”.
A pilot episode was made last month to allow producers to fix problems and give Allen some practice before broadcast, but it appears this was not enough. A BBC source summed things up well:
“You have to have a brilliant wit and be a real quick thinker to handle a show like this. It’s a huge responsibility for someone so lacking in TV experience.
“It’s cruel to heap so much responsibility on one girl, especially at a time when she has had such unhappiness in her private life.”
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