Music: Well damn?!?! Look at Adele after her divorce...UPDATE: ENGAGED TO RICH PAUL!

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I'd she weren't famous and papered up nobody would notice her in the mall. Skinny or fat.

Rihanna would still get hollared at in the food court line.
 

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I'd she weren't famous and papered up nobody would notice her in the mall. Skinny or fat.

Rihanna would still get hollared at in the food court line.

You would holla at Rhianna if she was 250 lbs? Even if she wasn't a singer and had millions of dollars?
 

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She's a comedienne.

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Damn she's put on some weight. Guess her career is solid.
 

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When Adele’s Album Finally Drops, a TV Special May Be Close Behind
By Josef Adalian
Photo: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

If you believe the internet, Adele’s long-awaited new album could drop any day now. (We’ve heard there could be music as soon as next week.) But whenever it arrives, there’s a good chance said album will be followed shortly by something almost as exciting: Vulture hears Adele’s camp has approached multiple networks and platforms about the idea of staging a TV special tied to the new release. No deals are in place, and talks are still in the exploratory stage. But if it happens, sources say the televised event would likely debut before the end of the year — just in time for the holiday shopping season.


While our music and TV industry spies are certain Adele is strongly considering a TV event to hype her new music, what’s less certain is the form a special will take and where it will land. Adele promoted her 2015 album 25 with relatively intimate, pretaped televised concerts on the BBC and NBC in November and December of 2015, respectively. She could go with a similar format this time around, or perhaps shoot for something more ambitious, such as a live outdoor spectacle.

As for where any special might be seen, if history is a guide, it is likely Adele’s team is looking for a platform that can deliver a massive audience in a short time. On the streaming side, Netflix would certainly offer that — not just in the U.S. but on a global scale. The short turnaround time for this project, however, might not make it the ideal candidate, since Netflix music specials have tended to be long-in-the-works, almost-cinematic specials (think Beyoncé’s Homecoming). It’s unclear if the streamer is currently in talks for the prospective special; the platform doesn’t typically comment on projects before deals have been signed.

Amazon Prime Video could also be a contender: It has a long history of working with musicians on big projects, such as Rihanna’s fashion-forward Savage X Fenty Show, Kacey Musgraves’s Christmas show, and the Prime Day concert specials. Amazon also obviously has the ability to sell things, like CDs and digital downloads. It could put an Adele special on its free ad-supported streamer IMDb TV, ensuring an even wider audience. HBO too has a long history of music specials, and now it is looking to sign up subscribers around the world for HBO Max. And, of course, Apple, with its access to hundreds of millions of consumer accounts, could be home for an Adele event, most likely with some combination of coverage by Apple TV+ and Apple Music.

As for traditional broadcast TV, Vulture hears Adele’s reps have once again approached American networks about a special, indicating she hasn’t settled on a streaming-only strategy this time around. What’s more, all the U.S. broadcasters now have streaming partners, so in theory, Adele could do a deal to have her special run on multiple platforms owned by the same company, though likely with the broadcast network taking the lead.
NBC obviously has to be considered a candidate, given its past association with Adele as well as the presence of Lorne Michaels, who produced her 2015 special and holds the keys to SNL, which is an obvious promotional platform for the album. But Michaels can still have Adele host or perform on SNL in December even if she doesn’t do a special for NBC. As for the other U.S. networks, ABC’s Disney ownership would allow it to share any special with either Disney+ or Hulu, with the former being a more likely candidate given its broader international distribution. Disney+ could also pursue an Adele special on its own.

But CBS has a strong case to make: The Eye regularly delivers some the biggest weekly average audience numbers of any American broadcaster, and Adele’s target demo of People Who Still Buy Music overlaps with CBS’s core demographic of adults between the ages of 25 and 54 (yes, that includes you, millennials). CBS also has ties to fellow ViacomCBS-owned MTV and streamer Paramount+, both of which could be enlisted to get more eyes on Adele. The network has a demonstrated — and most important, recent —track record with aggregating big numbers for specials (Oprah’s royal chat with Meghan and Harry, with over 17 million viewers, is one of this year’s biggest broadcasts). And it probably doesn’t hurt that CBS is closely tied with James Corden and producer Ben Winston: The duo engineered the instantly iconic Carpool Karaoke with Adele and were also involved with the Emmy-nominated Friends reunion special for HBO Max earlier this year. That doesn’t mean they’d be involved in the event, but there would be obvious cross-promotional possibilities.

As noted above, Vulture has only heard chatter of Adele’s reps broaching the idea of a big fourth-quarter TV event to promote the new album. As far as we know, there is no closed deal, and it’s possible her team decides to go another way and opt against a televised concert. But special or not, count on this: Adele, like fellow famous Brit Roy Kent, will soon be here, there, and every-f***ing-where. Reps for Adele and Sony Music did not return calls and emails seeking comment.
 
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Adele said she moved to Los Angeles because she 'could never' afford the same 'kind of house' in London


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  • Adele told British Vogue that her family's decision to move to LA was because of expensive real estate.
  • "The kind of house I have in LA I could never afford in London. Ever," she said.
  • Adele owns three homes in LA, which cost an estimated total of $30 million.
While Adele relocated from London to Los Angeles years ago, she opened up in a recent interview with British Vogue that a main motivator for the move was pricey real estate.
In Adele's interview with Giles Hattersley for the British and US Vogue November 2021 issues, the singer said one of the key reasons she, her ex-husband Simon Konecki, and their 9-year-old Angelo, relocated was to improve their quality of life.

In London, she said that most of her time was "in a car or inside a building" and that she wanted to be in a place where there was "fresh air and somewhere I could see the sky."

The singer landed in LA, adding that "the kind of house I have in LA I could never afford in London. Ever."
Hattersley questioned Adele's statement, but Adele stood by it. "No, I looked at houses. It's like hundreds of millions of pounds. I don't have that much money at all. I'd throw up," she said.

Adele owns three mansions next door to one another in LA. The homes have a British cottage vibe and together cost about $30 million, according to The New York Post.

In 2016, she purchased her first LA home for $9.5 million, Insider previously reported. Since then, she's purchased two more homes, each costing an estimated $10 million. Konecki lives in one of the homes, so the family could stay together for their son Angelo after their divorce in 2019, Adele said in the interview.
While Adele doesn't own a sprawling, three-house compound in London, she does have real estate in the city that is "very European, " she told British Vogue.

 

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CBS Nabs Adele Concert Special Featuring an Interview With Oprah
By Josef Adalian
Adele Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
CBS has won the Adele lottery, beating out streaming rivals for rights to the singer’s first big TV special ahead of her new album 30. The two-hour event, dubbed Adele One Night Only, will air Sunday, November 14, and will feature the singer in concert from Los Angeles, where she’ll perform previously unheard new songs from the album as well as previous hits. And as if that weren’t enough, the CBS special will also weave in Oprah Winfrey interviewing Adele in what is being billed as the singer’s first extensive TV conversation about “the stories behind the songs, life after divorce, weight loss, and raising her son,” according to a press release from the network.
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As Vulture reported exclusively earlier this month, the Eye was one of several major outlets chasing after the Adele special. While streaming-only services are increasingly big players in the music space — think Beyoncé’s Netflix film or Mariah Carey’s 2020 Christmas special — the music industry still considers broadcast TV a good place to help launch an album, even if networks such as CBS don’t shell out as much upfront cash as the streamers. CBS always seemed a logical fit for an Adele event, given the network’s broad reach and the fact that it boasts a core audience of adults over 25 who still actually buy records. CBS is also giving Adele One Night Only a primo time slot on a Sunday night immediately following 60 Minutes and a late-afternoon NFL game. The special is set to air at 8:30 p.m. on the East Coast and 8 p.m. out West, allowing time for an expected NFL overrun. It will also be available to stream live and on-demand via Paramount+.

Two other factors no doubt helped CBS land Adele. Its head of specials and alternative programming, Jack Sussman, is an industry vet with deep connections in the music business, in part due to the Eye’s long-running association with the Grammy Awards. In addition, Ben Winston, exec producer of the network’s Late Late Show With James Corden, is a U.K. native who, along with Corden, helped engineer 2016’s massively successful Carpool Karaoke with Adele weeks after the singer’s 2015 album release. While Winston isn’t tied to CBS for specials — he produced the Emmy-nominated Friends reunion for HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video’s Kacey Musgraves Christmas special — it probably didn’t hurt that he had a preexisting relationship with both Adele and the network. And indeed, Winston is onboard to exec-produce Adele One Night Only for CBS via his Fulwell 73 Productions banner alongside Adele, her manager Jonathan Dickins, and Raj Kapoor. Onward Productions and Harpo Productions are also attached to the special. Adele’s new album will be released on November 19, five days after the special airs. One detail still not clear is whether Adele also plans to do a U.K. concert special to promote the album’s release, as she did with the rollout for 25. Back in 2015, the singer launched the album with a BBC concert special that aired in November and then followed it up a month later with a Jimmy Fallon–hosted concert for NBC.
 

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We Bet NBA Spectators Were Distracted When They Saw Adele's Date-Night Outfit
Adele and her boyfriend, Rich Paul, were back at their date-night spot for the NBA season and the singer wore quite the glamorous outfit to celebrate. I don't know about you, but if I was at this game, I'd be pretty distracted by her head-to-toe leather look.

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