Stranger Things actor David Harbour appears to be back on the dating game after the breakdown of his marriage to singer Lily Allen. According to sources close to the couple, he’s now reportedly dating 27-year-old aspiring actress and model Ellie Fallon.
Poor Lily, 39, allegedly knows all too well about the new love interest in the latest blow for the Smile hitmaker, who has experienced many ups and downs in her love life. Here, The Mirror revisits the mother-of-two’s rocky dating history.
Lily dated London-based DJ Seb Chew for two and a half years before calling it quits in 2007. She told The Sun at the time: “Seb and I aren’t together any more. I split with him a month ago so I’m single now. I’m back on the market, and I need to practice. I don’t know if I can pull any more.”
However, romance was in the air soon after the split as Lily began dating Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons that same year. They announced they were expecting their first child together in December 2007. Sadly, Lily confirmed she’d suffered a miscarriage and their relationship ended in 2008.
She told Q Magazine: “We never were not friends, it just became… difficult. Because there was so much pain associated with everything that happened, for me I just needed to get away, you know?”
Later that year, she was romantically linked to Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, with the pair being spotted leaving a London restaurant together.
A source told the Daily Star: “After Lily’s split from Ed [Simons], Rupert offered a shoulder to cry on. Last week they enjoyed a Japanese meal together. They had a really long and intense talk, but also lots of fun, too.
“They get on really well, and he makes her laugh… Rupert drove Lily to the restaurant in his black mini and sheltered her from prying eyes. She is still dealing with the terrible start to the year she’s had to face, losing her baby and splitting with Ed, but these two would really work as a couple.”
She was connected to Jay Jopling in 2009 after being pictured kissing the art dealer on a yacht in St Barts. However, the Mail Online reported their whirlwind romance was over in a matter of weeks.
Lily claimed in her memoir, which was released in 2018, that she slept with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher on a flight to Japan in 2009. Liam’s never commented on the allegation.
In 2009, Lily struck up a romance with a builder called Sam Cooper, and they became pregnant the following year. However, Lily tragically had a stillbirth following complications during her pregnancy.
She told Woman’s Hour with a heavy heart: “The hardest thing about that was losing a child, but there were complications with the actual delivery. He was so small he actually got stuck halfway in and halfway out, so to speak, during the delivery. I went into trauma and I don’t think I’ll ever really recover from that.”
Lily went on to welcome two daughters with Sam, named Ethel and Marnine. Ethel was born in 2011, and Marnie was born in 2013.
The lovers tied the knot at a romantic ceremony in Gloucestershire after getting engaged on a trip to Bali in 2010. However, Lily confirmed they’d divorced in 2018 and were sharing custody of their girls.
According to reports, Lily started dating Meridian Dan in 2015. They reportedly managed to keep their romance a secret, but it emerged in court documents related to a home intruder that they’d been dating since 2015.
She addressed their break-up in 2019 on the How To Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, telling the author: “I’m single, for the first time since I was about 15.”
It wasn’t long before she met husband number two, David, on a dating app called Raya. After dating for months, they tied the knot at a Las Vegas wedding in September 2020.
David told People in 2021: We can share this experience of walking through life together. I’m always so overcome with gratitude for that because I’ve been alone for most of my life.”
However, it wasn’t meant to be. In recent weeks, news broke that the pair were going their separate ways, with a source telling People, “She’s devastated and not in a good place.”
In light of rumours swirling about David’s new love interest, a source told Mail Online: “Lily is aware of the romance and is very upset. Seeing the picture Ellie posted of herself smoking a cigar, taken weeks before Lily and David called it quits, has convinced her that Ellie and David had been seeing each other before they split.”
David’s representatives have been contacted by The Mirror for comment.
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