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Last updated at 12:33pm on 05.12.08

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Question: Lily Allen takes her elderly grandfather to see the ballet. Who is the most likely to fall asleep? Wrong - it was actually the young and sprightly Lily, 23, who nodded off at the Coliseum in Covent Garden during the opening night of the English National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty (with no hint of irony).

Sleeping Beauty: Lily Allen couldn't stay awake

Our spy in the stalls said: "She fell asleep soon after the production began, and her granddad had to tap her to wake her up. They both had a bit of giggle about it."