Lily Allen With Busy Child

Lily Allen picked either a really really good time or really really bad time to announce she’s pregnant – from a publicity stand point that is. Now that a media mailstorm has whipped itself off its axis at the news of the Spears family scratching teen pregnancy off the list of “How to Become America’s Number One Dysfunctional Family” (What, oh what do I tell my 7-year-old niece about what happened to Zoey 101??) now comes word that the “Smile” singer is also knocked up.

Allen’s publicist confirmed “the pregnancy is at such an early stage, the couple will be making no further comment but they are obviously both thrilled by the news.” My questions is, if it’s at such an early stage why would you announce this to the entire world so soon? I don’t know if the Hollywood Planned Parenthood’s offices are off for the holidays or what, but you don’t have to shove your HPT pregnancy test in my face the first chance you get (or in the Spears’ case, the biggest check that comes your way.) Surely I’m not suggesting you wait until your spread out in the delivery room to tell the world your pregnant a la Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera but for goodness sake people, it’s obvious these weren’t planned!

The father of Allen’s accident child is Ed Simons - one half of electronic duo The Chemical Brothers, who Allen has only been dating since September. That’s a way to keep your boyfriend around! Furthermore in her own boring make-shift web of baby irony, Allen recently flaunted a new slimmer body thanks to diet and exersize (yeah sure) coming off the heels of last year's blogdebacle where she claimed she had been crying for hours while researching liposuction.

Spears, by far, takes the cake for who won this publicity stunt. Sorry Lily, it just can’t compare to 16-year-old Jamie-Lynn and her 19-year-old no-name boyfriend who had supposedly been living together despite Mama Spears’ claim that she "“never misses curfew.” Oh yeah and just because she’s such a complete mess – Britney Spears yelled out to paparazzi last night that her sister is not pregnant. What?

Maybe some good could come out of this for Lily. It might take away some attention from the picture of her smoking a cigarette with the early tell-tale signs of her bump clearly showing. Way to go girls!