Lily Allen reveals she's back on the dating scene after split

It's been a challenging year for Lily Allen following her split from husband David Harbour, after it emerged he had a three-year affair with a costume designer.

Now, the singer, 40, who dropped her fifth studio album West End Girl last week, has revealed she's back on the dating scene.

However, it seems her celebrity status is proving a problem when it comes to using dating apps in a bid to find love. 

When asked if she was currently seeing anyone, Lily laughed before teasing Interview Magazine: 'Maybe.'

Opening up about navigating online dating while healing from heartbreak, she admitted: 'They're awful, especially if you're going through heartbreak.

'There is nothing more depressing than hundreds of people that are nothing like the person that you're missing. It's just like, "No, that's not him. That's not him. That's not him".'

The Smile hitmaker also revealed she was banned from Hinge for 'impersonating herself', explaining that her name doesn't match the one on her ID, meaning she couldn't verify her profile.

It comes after Lily dropped a huge hint that she has mended her relationship with David, 50, as she insisted she doesn't want 'revenge' on him in a new interview.

The singer, whose new album is about her ex-husband's affair and their split, insisted that her new music isn't meant to be 'cruel' and said she didn't feel like she was being 'mean' by sharing an insight into their break-up publicly.

During a chat with Interview magazine, Lily claimed she now feels 'differently' about their marriage breakdown, after first penning the record in 10 days last December. 

Lily's new insight into her former relationship came as her former partner was spotted with her children, Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 12, at Epic Universe in Orlando, Florida, leading to speculation that there had been peace talks between the former couple.

When asked whether the new album is a 'revenge tour', Lily said: 'It isn't. I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December, and I feel very differently about the whole situation now. We all go through breakups, and it's always f***ing brutal.

'But I don't think it's that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you're in it.'

'That's what's fun about this record; it's viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things, and that's great in terms of the album, but I don't feel confused or angry now. I don't need revenge.

'It's not a cruel album. I don't feel like I'm being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time.'

Lily's interview comes as David was said to have been seen with her daughters in a video believed to have been taken on Sunday.

It was an astonishing turn of events considering the same weekend he's looking after her children, Lily released her fifth studio album, West End Girl, which publicly humiliates David and brands him a cheating 'sex addict'.

But this marked the first public sign of easing tension between the former couple, as it appeared David is still a part of her children's lives despite their bitter break-up.

Lily, who claimed the album is a mix of both fact and fiction, was previously asked by Vogue if David was planning on continuing his stepfather role to her kids. 

Lily replied 'You'll have to ask him', but the outing suggested that David still has an active role in her daughter's lives.

Lily has caused a huge stir with her no-holds-barred record West End Girl, which details the breakdown of her marriage to the Stranger Things star.

The fallout from their split is revealed in explicit and brutally honest lyrics, where Lily recalls discovering he had cheated on her by finding messages on his phone.

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Lily Allen hints she has mended her relationship with ex David Harbour as she defends 'cruel' album and denies seeking revenge with explicit lyrics

Lily references a mistress called Madeline, who is apparently a construct of several people and seemingly lies at the heart of the issue between her and David.

Commenting on reports of David being seen out with the children while Lily promotes her new music, some shared their confusion underneath the TikTok post.

One person wrote: 'So while she's out there humiliating him, Harbour is on vacation with her kids? I can't cope with this.'

Another said: 'So he's there with Lily's children while she promotes an album.'

Already at the top of the UK iTunes album charts, the songs have been streamed more than eight million times worldwide on Spotify since their release on Friday. 

Their troubling relationship started as a dream come true for the unlucky-in-love singer.

A year after they met, the pair wed in Las Vegas, joined only by Ethel and Marnie, and Lily shared pictures of her daughters celebrating by eating hamburgers outside the chapel with their new step-father.

But, as she alleges in the 'tell-all' album, her landing a role in 2:22 A Ghost Story on the West End in 2021 cemented the beginning of the end, as he was unsupportive and asked for an open marriage, but eventually 'broke the rules' and cheated on her.

Now public enemy number one, the internet is awash with calls for David's whereabouts, imagining him hauled up in his Brooklyn apartment, ordering take-out to the Brooklyn townhouse they once shared [but are now selling] and cowering with shame.

David, who has no children of his own but grew close to Allen's daughters over their four-year marriage, was reportedly not keeping a low profile and chatting to fans at the theme park as he accompanied the girls and a group of their friends.

Meanwhile, Lily has been celebrating the release of the album, recorded in Los Angeles, by giving various interviews across the Atlantic, discussing David and her daughters.