Lilly: 'Madonna is over-rated'

Singer Lily Allen has branded Madonna "the most over-rated person in pop history". The 21-year-old reckons the Queen of Pop is past it.

In a typically outspoken interview with GQ magazine, Allen also revealed she had a same-sex "snog" with a Stringfellows stripper when she was just 15.

Asked the question: "Who, in all pop history, is most over-rated?", she replied: "Madonna. I haven't got anything against her at all but I don't think anything she's done since the early Eighties has really been, like, 'wow'.

"She might have meant something once but I don't know many people my age who care."

On drug addict Doherty she said: "I do think he has to be exterminated. It is a bit dull, isn't it? I've always been surrounded by smackheads anyway. It's like, 'get over it'."

And asked for her opinion on James Blunt, Allen replied: "It rhymes with his surname."

She named her favourite Girls Aloud member as: "Nicola, the ugly one. For that reason."

The singer, daughter of actor Keith Allen, then spoke about her lesbian kiss with an older woman.

"When I was 15 I kissed a 35-year-old stripper called Cheryl, at Space in Ibiza," she said.

"She had a necklace saying she'd won the Stringfellows Stripper of the Year contest and she was kind of showing it off. It was a proper snog."

Allen, who had a number one with debut single Smile, also said she was unlikely to become a footballer's wife.

Asked if she would ever consider dating a footballer, she said: "I can't rule it out, if there was one who was less idiotic than the rest, and I fancied him. But let's face it, they don't really come across as that intelligent, do they, in the post-match interviews?"

:: The full interview is in the new issue of GQ, on sale tomorrow.