Lily Allen has confirmed that she was dropped from a planned appearance on News night in which she was supposed to discuss the Grenfell Tower fire.
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I'm sad to say @BBCNewsnight just cancelled me for tonight's show. They have someone from the council coming on instead.
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) June 15, 2017
She was supposed to be interviewed for the show last night, but planners decided to cut her segment just hours after she gave a controversial interview to Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
In their discussion, Lily accused the government of trying to “micromanage grief” by downplaying the amount of fatalities from Wednesday’s disaster. So far 17 people have been confirmed dead, whereas Lily argues that she has heard off-the-record figures of close to 150:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1TbRejDv80
It’s not confirmed why Lily was cut from Newsnight, but the decision did come shortly after her bold and outspoken statement for Channel 4. Are the two linked? We can’t confirm, but it seems likely when you see the way that she even managed to make even Jon Snow squirm and the way she has been speaking about the incident since it occurred:
I am politicizing #Grenfell tower because, it is governmental policies that have lead to so many unnecessary deaths. pic.twitter.com/9kqVMpiQkQ
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) June 15, 2017
To watch a Grenfell Tower resident explain why he thinks the fire was a deliberate attack from the government, click HERE.
