Lily Allen Returns to SNL with Album Songs

British singer Lily Allen made a triumphant return to Saturday Night Live on December 13, 2025, performing two songs from her latest album, West End Girl, 18 years after her debut appearance on the NBC sketch comedy show. The London-born artist, joined by actress Dakota Johnson for a surprise cameo, delivered an intimate set that highlighted themes of heartbreak and betrayal drawn from her recent separation from Stranger Things actor David Harbour.

Allen's performance opened with "Sleepwalking," the third track on West End Girl, set against a vintage dressing room backdrop with neon signage. Dressed in a mint green silk romper accented by lace trim, sheer black tights, and layered necklaces in emerald and orange tones, Allen evoked a retro theater-star aesthetic with her hair styled in a half-up beehive and sharp eyeliner. The song, like much of the album, explores the emotional fallout of her marriage's collapse, which Allen has described as a catalyst for breaking through a period of writer's block. "I thought I didn't have any good songs left," she told The Times in October upon the album's release. "My writing had been really bad, and it took something to happen in my life,...