Lily Allen tenant says she IS moving out after singer stuns with homeless tweet
LILY Allen's tenant has insisted she IS planning to move out of the millionaire singer's flat - and said she was stunned at the suggestion that she was refusing to do so.
Allen sparked a Twitter-storm when she alerted followers to the inconvenience she was facing as landlord of her very lucrative flat – made worse by the fact she claimed she would give a home to asylum seekers earlier this year.
The woman tenant, an Italian photographer called Maria, who lives in the £2 million Notting Hill flat with her three children, said she was "really astonished" by Miss Allen's claims, made on Twitter on Monday.
She said: "I'm very sorry I had her as a landlord because all this has happened. We are still living here today but we are leaving."
She explained that she and her family would be moving out tomorrow (Wednesday), having initially asked to stay on for an extra two days beyond the end of the lease.
I'm very sorry I had her as a landlord because all this has happened. We are still living here today but we are leaving
She added: "I don't know why she did this. We are diplomats. But I don't want to make trouble to our embassy. This is so stupid. I can't believe this."
Miss Allen, 32, has been the subject of widespread scorn after she tweeted: “Meant to be moving back into my flat this week, but my tenants just dropped that they can't find anywhere to go up to their standards.
“Then they said they're diplomats and have diplomatic immunity and there's nothing I can do about it. So, who fancies a family of 3 for Xmas?”
Fellow Twitter users took the opportunity to have their say on the matter, with one branding her "the epitome of a champagne socialist,” while another claimed: "Next she'll be moaning about getting her turkey from Waitrose."
Another asked: "Why do you have paying tenants in your flat, Lily, when you could be housing Syrian refugees?”, a clear reference to Miss Allen's offer to house a refugee, made during her now-infamous tearful apology to Calais migrants on behalf of Britain earlier this year.
Miss Allen, the daughter of comedian Keith Allen and brother of Alfie Allen, alias Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones, bought the ground-floor two bedroom flat for £900,000 in 2008.
She will be spending Christmas with her daughters Marnie and Ethel.
She split with builder Sam Cooper, her husband of four years and the father of her children, in 2015.
The Diplomatic Immunity Act 1964 grants legal immunity to diplomats except in extreme circumstances, meaning that some landlords are wary of accepting such tenants.