Ricky WIlson has sided with Lily Allen - and branded her attackers "knobheads". So that'll be Cheryl Cole that he's talking about then.

The Kaiser Chiefs frontman is no stranger to battling the bulge and Hot's own Carl Stroud once got on the wrong side of the singer when he labelled Ricky "portly"

Speaking about Lily and Cheryl's recent exchange of vicious insults over weight and appearance, Ricky said "The thing is, when you start seeing yourself on TV and in the papers and you get snide comments like those from knobheads, you start doubting yourself. It's really hard not to give a damn. I've done it myself when I've seen pictures of me.

Lily doesn't need lipo or surgery and she knows that really. She is perfect as she is"

And the Lily - Ricky love-in has become so strong that she has even asked his band to star in her new video.

Ricky let slip on Chris Moyles' radio show "We are flying back from Austria to be in one of Lily Allen's videos. All of us will be sitting round a table in a club, but I don't know what else we will be doing. We have been assured we will not be doing any acting, which is a relief as we are rubbish"]