Lily Allen in Hot Water Again

When she's not spending time with her new boyfriend this week, Lily Allen is busy doing damage control for her latest screw up.

A self-professed Britney Spears fan, Lily thought it would be fun to cover Britney's hit 'Womanizer' this month. 

Only the innocent gesture kinda backfired after Mark Ronson aired the track on his weekly New York show last Friday - instigating peopel to spread the single accross the web. 

And, given that Lily didn't consult either her own or Britey's lawyers about the remix, her label is pissed at her again. 

So, naturally - she's taking to her myspace to provide a full excuse explanation: 

'Some of you may be wondering why I covered Womanizer - simple really, I love Britney and I love the song. It wasn't my intention for it to have whizzed round the world like it has.  Mark Ronson asked me for something no one had heard to play on his radio show, and Womanizer was the only song I had as an attachment on my Blackberry, and I couldn't get home to send him anything else in time. 
I had asked him to talk all over it so it wouldn't get ripped, but he didn't. Thanks Mark - for getting me in serious trouble with my record company.' 

Ah, the joys of having a scapegoat.  Lucky Mark!

Click any image to enjoy photos of Lily looking surprisingly carefree in London yesterday...