Lily Allen has been spotted on a date with James Norton after both split from their respective partners.
Late last year the popstar, 40, started alluding to her marriage breaking down to Stranger Things star David Harbour, 50.
After meeting on celebrity dating app Raya in 2019, the couple married the following year.
However, in late 2024 Lily described ‘not being in a great place mentally’, before it was later revealed she’d split from David, who was then accused of having an affair.
A few months on, she’s now been spotted at a music festival with actor James Norton, best known for his starring role in Happy Valley but also now one of the favourites in the running to play James Bond.
Over the weekend the pair were spotted at Lido Festival in London, which was headlined by acts including Massive Attack, Jamie xx, Charli XCX and London Grammar.
On Saturday they were snapped shunning the VIP areas to go into the crowds and watch artists together, including Charli.
Weighing in on the pics, body language expert Judi James commented on what she suspected was a first date.
‘The body language here does suggests this is a date but it looks very much like a first date, when two people are maybe still just claiming to be friends,’ she explained.
‘There’s some mutually polite smiling here but it’s undirected smiling with some coy-looking smiles as they both look down rather than exchanging smiles with each other, using eye contact.
‘There’s an apparent lack of any easy-going touch rituals of the kind you’d expect to see from a closer or more established relationship. When Lily struggles to get into her jacket James doesn’t leap to the excuse for a touch ritual by helping her with it.’
She went on: ‘There is some torso proximity as they watch the stage but no actual touch visible to the camera here. They do share twinned, slightly smug-looking facial expressions though.
‘James looks politely eye-attentive as Lily talks and smiles charmingly at her words, which must be a huge box-tick for her given previous comments about past relationships.’
A source had told The Sun that the pair were ‘together for the day and were chatting and laughing together as they watched Charli XCX’.
‘Lily was leaning into him at one point. She and James seemed really relaxed together and she was really making him giggle,’ they said.
‘They were drinking non-alcoholic beer and queued at the bar like all the other punters. People were doing double-takes when they saw them together. Because they’re both on Raya it seems like they might have matched with each other. And Lido is a great first date because there is so much to do.’
After reactivating her Raya account in the wake of her break-up, Lily joked she was ‘looking for someone to start couples therapy with’.
Meanwhile James, who was previously engaged to actress Imogen Poots, briefly dated model Charlotte Rose Smith, 25, but they split earlier this year. He was later also spotted on Raya too.
Metro has contacted representatives for Lily Allen and James Norton for comment.
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