The owner of the anti-Kanye West flag that was strategically burned by Lily Allen over the Glastonbury weekend has hit back at the pop star, saying she had “every right” to make the banner and told her not to vandalise people’s things.

Allen, 30, who attended the three-day festival in Somerset last weekend but wasn’t one of the performers, posted a series of videos to her Instagram account that showed her burning the flag that read “F*** off Kanye” so that it simply read “Kanye”.

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On Wednesday, however, the owner of the flag contacted the NME to call the pop star out for her actions. Calling herself only Aoibheann, she said that she and her party of friends were “gutted” to find that it had been pinched and that it made locating their tent at night a lot more difficult – and that they initially had feared their tents had been burgled.

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She also disagreed with Allen’s decision to burn their flag. “I thought it was hilarious until I saw that she'd burned it and gotten all self-righteous about it. I don't care who you are, you have no right to steal my stuff and vandalise it. Get off your high horse and stop nicking things.”

Kanye’s booking as the Pyramid Stage’s Saturday night headliner was one of the talking points of the weekend, with one festival-goer creating an online petition to cancel his appearance that attracted 134,000 signatures.

The flag’s owner was also asked why she’d made it in the first place. “Glastonbury is all about peace, love, good vibes and positivity. The guy [Kanye] is an egotistical narcissistic and self-deluded idiot who's still basking in the light of his one good album” she responded. “His stand out attribute is his commercialism and self-promotion which completely contradicts the socialist ethos of Glastonbury festival. So I reckoned he could just f*** off.”

Lily Allen – who called her 2014 album Sheezus in reference to Ye’s 2013 album Yeezus – has long been a big fan of the rapper. She had written as a caption underneath one of the videos: “Don’t go for dinner at someone’s house and tell them their food sucks.”

So - who's in the right?

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