Exclusive: Phil Collins Says Daughter Lily and Nick Jonas Are ‘Just Friends’-
Deciphering
the love life of Nick Jonas takes some work these days. The “Jealous”
singer had been flirty with Kate Hudson at the end of 2015 and has now
reportedly moved on to another pretty actress, Lily Collins.
Luckily, Lily’s famous dad Phil helped clear things up while speaking to The Insider With Yahoo’s
special correspondent TJ Jackson. The singer known for his ‘80s ballads
such as “One More Night” addressed reports that his daughter and Nick
were at California ski resort Mammoth Mountain for a romantic weekend in
late January.
Phil and Lily Collins attend a movie premiere. (Photo: Todd Williamson/Getty Images For Relativity Media)
“[I’m]
not sure what Nick looks like,” Phil said with a laugh. “But Lily
called me the other day and she was in Mammoth where all this was
happening. I’m here with a friend she told me and said it’s not serious.
It’s just friends.” Nick and Lily have been pals for years, but their
relationship only recently turned romantic, according to Us Weekly. Besides skiing, the magazine reported that the two spent a night “laughing together” on a bowling date in L.A.
“Nick
really likes Lily,” a source told the mag. Still, things aren’t
serious. “Nick’s single and having fun,” he said. “Right now it’s not
exclusive.”
The
proud dad also lamented that his little girl — who’s now 26 — has to
deal with more scrutiny than he did while beginning his career.
“Yeah,
I mean, this is what I mean she is now in the public eye and has to put
up with all that kind of stuff and she can’t keep that stuff private
anymore. When I started in this industry there was no Internet. Now
things rattle all over the world. She is getting used to it.”
Still, he admires the way Lily is handling it all.
“She
just is remarkable,” Phil praised. “I really believe she can do
anything she wants to. Anything she sets her mind to. She’s very
grounded, knows what she wants to do. She’s done it without me. All I
said to her was be careful what you say.”
As
a child, Lily saw the celebrity drama surrounding her mom and dad’s
divorce, which was infamously hashed out over fax, play out in public.
She’s explained that this early experience made her want to keep her own
romances quiet. “I don’t feel the need to profess anything publicly or
confirm something that in a normal situation you wouldn’t have to speak
about,” she told Glamour
in 2013. “If I’m out and I’m photographed with someone, then it is what
it is… That’s always been my natural feeling. My family went through a
lot of public situations and I saw that side of it from a very young
age.”
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