She insists she hasn’t changed a bit — aside from
swapping grocery shopping in Tesco for the pricier Waitrose. Worth £51million
($79million) and rising, singer Adele Adkins this week embarked on a round of
publicity for her forthcoming album, 25, by talking about fame and how she’s
still the same working-class girl who was raised by a single mum in Tottenham,
North London.
She told Radio One’s Nick Grimshaw: ‘I like the way
I have lived my life always, so that’s why I’ll carry on living it like that.
No one else in my life is famous, so they’d think I’m being an idiot if I was
ever to try to get carried away with myself.’
She added: ‘I shop at Waitrose these days. I know,
I’ve moved up in the world. I still love you, Tesco, but Waitrose. That’s
probably the biggest change, honestly. That’s about it, really. I got a plasma
[television ]. I used to have that big thick one up until recently.’
But is everything really so unaltered? For upon
closer inspection, it turns out Adele’s life today is about as exclusive and
monied as it gets.
Since the global success of the album 21, she has
spent a cool £16million ($25m) on property. She lives a life of untrammelled
luxury which features a permanent security presence, bespoke gold jewellery
gifts from her Old Etonian boyfriend and winter coats from Stella McCartney.
Her hair is cut by the same Mayfair crimper who attends to David Cameron. Her
first car — she recently passed her driving test — is a £100,000 (155k) Porsche
with a bespoke interior.
None of this, however, features in her publicity
material. For, as the singer told the magazine i-D this week, it is vital for
her to still seem to be the ‘normal’ person whose songs so appealed to
millions. She said: ‘I want to have a real life so I can write records. No one
wants to listen to a record from someone that’s lost touch with reality.
So I
live a low-key life for my fans.’
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