Lily Allen said she wants to add “introduction to divorce” to the school curriculum to teach children about the “dangers of marriage”.

The 30-year-old, who has been married to Sam Cooper since 2011 and shares two young children with him, called in to Shelagh Fogarty’s radio show on LBC to discuss her Twitter argument with Education Minister Nick Gibb.

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Lily Allen called the show to discuss her thoughts on the curriculum (Ian West/PA)

Asked about her ideal Lily Allen curriculum, she replied: “A beginner’s guide to getting food, an introduction to divorce, I don’t know, things that everyone needs to know about.”

Shelagh quickly asked: “An introduction to divorce? Is there something you need to tell us, Lily?”

But the pop star breezed over the question and said: “The dangers of marriage. I don’t know, life skills, isn’t it?”

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Lily married husband Sam Cooper in 2011 (Ben Birchall/PA)

She added: “It certainly wasn’t something I was taught at school. It seems people get themselves into all sorts of difficulties and have to pay extortionate amounts to accountants and lawyers to sort it out.”

Shelagh’s question may have been in response to reports that Lily’s marriage to Sam is over, however the singer has not publicly commented on speculation.

She did refer to her parent’s separation during the interview, saying, “I had quite a difficult education, I changed school lots because I changed location and my family splitting up.”

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Lily. with her dad Keith Allen, who split with her mother Alison Owen when she was young (Ian West/PA)

Lily went on the show to talk about her Twitter debate with Nick Gibb, in which she said she had been met with a “rude response to a perfectly reasonable question” about why students aren’t taught personal finance.

She explained: “I left formal education at 15 and went on to enjoy what’s been an amazing, successful career, but I’ve never been able to get my head round my finances.

“I’m terrible at maths. I’ve had an accountant in my employment since I was 19 years old and if my daughter came to me with a question about any of this stuff, I would not have a clue.”

She continued: “It’s more about my children and them having to enter the big bad world without necessarily having the tools to do so.”

Lily revealed that she has put her three-year-old daughter on the waiting list for both a state and private school for September.

“I’m hoping she gets in to the state school but there’s a really long waiting list,” she said, but refused to comment on her thoughts on private education.

But she did comment that she thought the lack of financial education “reinforced the gap between the rich and the poor, which is getting worse and worse and worse every second”.