George Lamb has defended Lily Allen's outbursts

George Lamb has defended Lily Allen's outspoken nature.

George - who used to manage the Fear singer - said she had intense media pressure to deal with and it was up to her whether she makes her opinions known.

"For whatever reasons she doesn't feel comfortable enough keeping her mouth shut and letting things be," he said of Lily, who recently told her Twitter followers she thought Britain's Got Talent hopeful Susan Boyle was overrated.

The Big Brother's Little Brother host continued: "Let her do it - what can you do? People are gonna do whatever they wanna do anyway. I wouldn't do it - I choose not to slag people off, but that's her prerogative."

He added: "She's done a lot of things at 23 that I couldn't say (I've done) at 29.

"It's difficult, success coming young to you, growing up in the kind of celebrity culture we're in at the moment, the people who want you to act and react and poke you and prod you and they want her to be this character and they manifest it almost."

George also praised Lily for the way she's come back with a hit album despite criticism of her behaviour in the media.

"I don't think she could have come back with a cleverer, more versatile, smart smart album," he said. "She polarises people and there's a lot of people against her, a lot of people want to vilify her and a lot of people want to put her down."