Lily Allen reveals she left play early to have sex with David Harbour

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Lily Allen has revealed husband David Harbour seduced her with such intense hand stroking that they left a play early to sleep together for the first time.

The singer told of her shock as Stranger Things star Harbour suddenly grabbed her hand as they took in a show and began caressing it in such an “intense” way that she felt like he was almost having sex with it.

Allen, 39, told her best friend Miquita Oliver on their Miss Me? podcast: ‘We went out on a couple of dates. 

‘We’d been out for dinner a couple of times and then the third time I went out with him we went to the theatre to go and see The Lehman Trilogy.

‘It’s a very long play, it’s in three parts, there’s two intervals. I think it was in the first bit of the play, the first third, he just like grabbed my hand and started like stroking it – almost like f***ing it with his hand or something.

‘It was the most intense thing. I was like very English, “Ooh my goodness, this person likes me – they want to be intimate with me”. 

‘And then he like whispered in my ear – I guess it was obvious the first third was coming to a crescendo – he was like “Shall we just like get out of here?”

‘It was really hard to get tickets to this play as well. And then we left – and the rest was history.’ 

She added: ‘It was very intense. I hadn’t really had that (before).

‘It’s not very British is it, like on the third date, like literally grabbed my hand and started stroking me.

‘And it was in an environment that it was like I couldn’t like say anything. I was like “Oh God”. It was hot.’ 

Allen and Harbour began their relationship in 2019 and married in September 2020.

The singer and actress previously admitted the couple have come to an unorthodox arrangement to cut down on the amount of time they spend scrolling on social media.

‘I now have a kids’ phone called Pinwheel. It has no browsing capability and no social media, but you can still have Uber and Spotify,’ she told the Sunday Times. 

‘My husband is the caregiver on it, so he controls what I’m allowed to have as an app on my phone. I’m the controller of his as well.’

Allen, a mother to daughters Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11, from her first marriage to builder Sam Cooper, added that she has recently taken away their smartphones after reading a book that claims children shouldn’t use them until they are 14.

She explained: ‘The creative side of my brain has been ruined by smartphones. I feel like everyone feels the same. I don’t know anyone who can possibly say that the quality of their life is improved by the presence of a smartphone.

‘I think it’s destroyed us as a species. It’s horrendous that they’re designed to be so addictive. Some of us have more addictive personalities than others. It’s evil.’