Lily Allen finds the concept of intimacy coordinators 'weird'

Lily Allen finds the concept of intimacy coordinators "weird".

The 39-year-old singer and actress had an intimacy coordinator on the set of her six-part TV series 'Dreamland' when she filmed steamy scenes with her co-star Kiell Smith-Bynoe but admitted she wasn't a fan.

Speaking on her 'Miss Me?' podcast with co-host Miquita Oliver, she said: "I don’t know how helpful I found it [intimacy coordination] personally. I would have preferred to just have just thrown myself in the deep end and let it happen.

"But what I found difficult is you had to ask the person’s permission if they were okay with you putting your hand somewhere before you did it and I just couldn’t.

"I’d be like, 'Kiell, are you happy with me putting my hand on your… I just didn’t understand the format, it was a bit of a mind bog.

"I was like, can we just snog? It’s like you’re making it weird… this is making it weird."