ELTON JOHN'S AWARDS ROW WITH LILY ALLEN WAS 'A JOKE'

LATEST: LILY ALLEN has laughed off her onstage row with SIR ELTON JOHN at a London awards show on Tuesday (02Sep08), insisting they were joking and are still friends. The pair made headlines by bickering throughout their gig as co-hosts of the GQ Men of the Year Awards. She told the music legend to "f**k off" on several occasions after John had made sneering remarks about her alcohol consumption on the night.

But the Smile singer insists the acid-tongued barbs between the pair were in good humour. She writes on her MySpace blog, "Elton John and I are still friends... Trying to make me out as being some rude little girl with a drink problem is just unfair. Elton and I exchanged jokes and there were no hard feelings at all, in fact neither of us gave it a second thought."