Lily Allen
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Pop star Lily Allen has called on celebrity website bosses to axe their comments sections in a bid to end online bullying.
The outspoken singer often gets involved in Internet spats with her critics and has to frequently deal with torrents of abusive remarks about her music and appearance.
Allen is adamant she no longer even looks at the comments left by readers but she is now urging the owners of celebrity gossip sites to take down their comment boards and put a stop to the harassment.
The “Smile” hit maker tells British magazine Notebook, “I don’t find it difficult to deal with. I just don’t read it any more, I don’t Google myself. … Why else would a website have a comments section if it wasn’t for people to be horrible? It doesn’t serve any other purpose, and it’s not something I want to be part of. …
“I don’t care about it for me as a person, I care about mankind and the future, about the world my kids have been brought into. I hate that culture and I hope it stops. I’m sure people will get bored, but it’s what they seem to like now.”
