Singer/trainwreck-in-the-making Lily Allen tightened her grip on the title of Britain’s Sweetheart at last night’s GQ Men of the Year Awards, where her performance as emcee of the event made Britney Spears’ VMA appearance look as elegant as a Pablo Casals solo. The 23-year-old stood at the dais tossing down glass after glass of champagne, getting visibly sozzled in the process. Finally, when Lily announced, “And now we reach a very special point in the evening,” her co-host Sir Elton John replied, “What, are you going to have another drink?” Lily snapped back wittily, “Fuck off Elton, I’m forty years younger than you, I have my whole life ahead of me.” She scattered a few more f-bombs through the evening—for example, telling the world, “I’d still fuck him,” when Sir Elton introduced 82-year-old Tony Bennett.

This whole story really has me torn. On the one hand, Lily seemed sort of charming when she first appeared a few years ago, and she’s been getting scuzzier by the day—nowhere near Amy Winehouse territory, but still pretty crass. On the other hand, she told Sir Elton John to fuck off, and that’s something that needs to happen much, much more often.