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"I'm so happy": Lily Allen will be back in the US

She was detained at Los Angeles airport and quizzed for five hours over her caution for attacking a photographer outside the Wardour club in Soho in March last year. Lily, 23, had to postpone her US tour and cancel a high-profile appearance at the MTV Music Awards.

She was out last night at the Saatchi Gallery launch party in Chelsea, where she posed up for photos with Nigella Lawson, before heading off to the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane to receive a BMI award.

She told us she was delighted that she has finally ironed out her differences with our Atlantic cousins.

She told us: "Yeah, I got my visa today so I'm allowed back. I can go out there and finish off what I started, which is something that I really wanted to do for a very long time. I'm so happy."

Lil was picking up an award for her hit Smile, and added: "It's a special song - it's the first song I ever wrote. It's so nice to be awarded anything ever, which I don't experience much of. Unfortunately I think I've only won one award before, which was the Glamour special editor's award. And we all know brilliantly that went. Hopefully there will be no repeat of that this evening."

Yes, who could forget the Glamour Women of the Year awards, when the London Eye came to Lily's rescue and carried her out of the venue when she collapsed. She later claimed that her drink was spiked.

Last night Lily told us that she has changed the title of her upcoming album again, having originally changed it from Stuck On The Naughty Step to Brilly Allen.

She added: "It's now called It's Not Me It's You. I just think I lived with the title for too long. I just got a bit bored with it. I think I'd be leaving myself open to criticism. "The album is done and is out on 9 February. I'm incredibly excited.

"I took my time with it. It wasn't like I did loads and loads and had to cut it all down. I always know when I start writing a song whether it's going to be a good one of not. Sometimes it takes a while to get to that one song - I can't work on something that I don't think is good enough to be on the album."