Blonde ambition: Glamorous Lily Allen back on the fashion fast-track
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Roaring up in a BMW convertible sports car, with her hair flowing, Lily Allen has returned to the fashion fasttrack with a glamorous look.
Newly blonde Lily, 22, looked back to her fashionable best after a poor showing at a recent premiere when she turned up in a frock which at best could be described as a hospital gown.
Dressed in a slinky black knitted dress, black patent stilettos and her long blonde locks teased into a 70s Farrah Fawcett style, a confident-looking Lily arrived alone to a private viewing in London's Mayfair.
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Blonde and ambitious: Lily Allen returned to her glamorous best as she stepped out at a private viewing at an art gallery in Mayfair, London last night
Climbing out of a sporty new set of wheels, Lily showed off a vamped up new image, and looks set to attract a host of new admirers.
The singer has been single since her split from from Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons in January. But last month she was linked to producer Robertson Furze after the pair were seen enjoying a fry-up in a cafe near his home.
Meanwhile the organisers of the £30,000 Orange Prize for fiction admitted that they had to drop Lily from the panel of judges after she failed to turn up to meetings.
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Racy lady: Lily roared up in her BMW Z4 sports car, complete with top down, and blonde hair flowing
Black look: Lily was dressed head to toe in black, and even drove a sleek black sports car to the art gallery
Kirsty Lang, chairman of this year's panel, defended Lily as a good choice of judge. She told The Times: "Life got in the way.
"She lost a baby, her boyfriend left her and she was launching a new TV show. She was under a hell of a lot of pressure.
"She found the pressure of judging a major book prize on top of everything else too much."
Miss Lang said Lily had taken part in drawing up the longlist "by phone" and heaped praise on her, dismissing critics who disparaged her as "being snobby and elitist".
She added: "She reads, she writes her own songs. She's a wordsmith."
Think pink: Lily has been through a tough time and the chairman of this year's Orange Book Prize panel came to her defence saying 'She reads, she writes her own songs. She's a wordsmith'
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