Lily Allen Denies Anti-US Attitude

Lily Allen has rubbished suggestions that she doesn’t like Americans – despite admitting her distain for the American President George Bush is as strong as ever.

Allen made a number of comments about America during her performances at this weekend’s V Festival in Staffordshire and Chelmsford.

Before her song, ‘Everything Is Wonderful,’ Allen said: "This next one is about people who are awkward on the train, U.S. immigration officials and George Bush in general."

Allen was recently held at an American airport by customs and immigrations officials because of an alleged incident involving a photographer in London in March.

Writing on her myspace blog, however, Allen was keen to stress that her anger is vented at George Bush, rather than the American public.

“I have called George bush a c**t at pretty much every show I have played over the past year, that is because I think he is one and I stand by that,” explained Allen. “You can make up your own mind as to whether you agree with me or not, that’s just how I feel.”

Just because I hate George Bush doesn’t mean I hate America, quite the opposite, I think the US is a great place and I am really sad that I cant be there for my commitments scheduled for the near future .”

Allen added: “What I said about George Bush this weekend bears no relation to what happened a couple of weeks ago with my visa, that is an issue with the US immigration service. I just wanted to let you all know that my "foul mouthed tirade " so widely reported over the past couple of days is actually pretty rehearsed and I’ve been saying it long before all this visa issue.”