‘DAD GIVES ME BOY ADVICE’
Even if you don’t recognise her face just yet, you’ll know the name – Molly Moorish Gallagher, 21, eldest daughter of former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. Her mum is singer, actor and eternal cool girl Lisa Moorish, she calls Pete Doherty her stepdad (he is her half-brother’s dad), Noel Gallagher is her uncle and she grew up running around Glastonbury Festival. But rather than follow in the family business, Molly is in her second year at Goldsmiths University, studying politics and sociology. She’s also an ambassador for homelessness charity Centrepoint and recently fronted an All Saints campaign.
For her first solo interview, she arrives at Beckenham Place Park in south London bang on time, dressed in cosy sportswear. Perfectly polite and sure of herself but just a little bit shy, she’s definitely still a Gallagher. ‘I’ve obviously got the eyebrows,’ she says with a laugh. ‘I mean, they’re big.’
Molly had always known Liam was her father (she was conceived two months after he married Patsy Kensit), but only met him for the first time when she was 20. Previously, she’d been in contact with her uncle Noel, though, and landed in the centre of a social media spat, with mum Lisa attacking Liam in 2017 – before backing Noel with the hashtag #FAMILYFIRST.
Molly’s pretty acquiescent about Liam’s absence. ‘It was normal because it was just what I knew,’ she explains, matter-of-factly. But even as a kid Molly was well aware of who her father was. So did she listen to Oasis? ‘I did. I think I went through a rebellious Blur phase, but yeah!’
Molly and Liam finally met in 2018, but she had already crossed paths with her two half-brothers, Gene, 18 – whose mother is Nicole Appleton of All Saints – and Lennon, 20 – from Liam’s first marriage to actor Patsy Kensit. She’d hung out with Lennon a couple of times when they were six (‘He doesn’t remember it, but I do!’) and was friends with Gene on Instagram before they came face to face at an event. ‘We were both like... “Oh, hi!”’
It was that meeting which led to Molly and her dad finally connecting, even though they’d both recently been at the same BRITS after-party. ‘I had no idea he was in the room until the next day. I read that and I was like, “That could’ve been awkward…”’
Though the big reveal of their eventual reconciliation came via an Instagram photo posted by Liam of him, Molly and his two sons backstage at a gig, they’d actually met up a couple of weeks previously, alongside his fiancée Debbie Gwyther, at Liam’s local in north London. ‘We went to the pub and got on so well,’ remembers Molly. ‘For the build-up, I was not really thinking about it. Then, for the first five minutes, I was like, “Oh, this is weird,” and then it just was fine.’
Eighteen months later, and Liam and Molly are incredibly close. Last autumn, she added ‘Gallagher’ to her name on social media – though she still needs to send off