Lily Allen: Brits win was stitch-up and means nothing to me

Lily Allen declared that winning a Brit award earlier this year meant "absolutely nothing" to her.
The singer scooped the prize for Best Female Solo Artist in February, an accolade she described at the time as being the "perfect goodbye", having previously confirmed plans to quit music.
After being nominated six times for Brits in 2007 and 2010, it seemed to finally seal her success in the music business.
But Lily, who's now concentrating on her fashion emporium Lucy In Disguise with her half-sister Sarah Owen, said: "I got a Brit Award. That was something four years ago I would have died for.
"But when I got the award, it meant absolutely nothing to me. Because I now know that the Brit Awards is a TV show.
"Record company executives make deals with a TV channel and the producers about who wins what award in exchange for performance time.
"So it's become a non-award, like, 'Thank you for this'."
Lily marked her win by opening the show with her hit The Fear and donning a ginger wig as she giggled through her speech, admitting: "I only wore this orange wig because I thought it would make it harder for the cameramen to find me when I didn't win and made my sad face."
She later told reporters: "This hasn't changed my plans to quit. It's actually been really good as something to work towards for the last six months.
"It is the perfect way to say goodbye. I have so much I want to do now with my shop and record label."
At the time, it seemed certain the award would take pride of place alongside her 12 others, including two from NME, One Q Award and one for Glamour Woman of the Year.
But despite beating off tough competition from Leona Lewis and Florence Welch, the trophy is now worthless in her eyes.
Lily is up for two gongs at this year's prestigious Ivor Novello Awards alongside rapper Dizzee Rascal. Her chart-topping single The Fear will be competing against Girls Aloud's The Promise in the category for Most Performed Work.
The Fear has also been nominated for the award for Best Song Musically & Lyrically and is up against The Leisure Society's Save it For Someone Who Cares and Patch William's The Last Bus.
Lily, who is now gearing up for a reality TV series about her life in fashion, told fans after she was nominated: "So honoured, I cried a little."

Lily Allen goes Topless.

British singer Lily Allen is set to cause a storm Down Under - she will appear topless on the front cover of Harper's Bazaar Australia.

The Smile hitmaker, who is winding down her pop career to launch her own designer clothes hire store and record label, will grace the sleeve of the magazine's May edition.

The image shows her naked from the waist up, with one arm covering the right side of her chest but with her left breast clearly on show.

But magazine bosses have cleverly avoided any potential fallout from the risque cover - the image is a painting based on a photo from Allen's topless shoot for Harper's Bazaar Russia in January.