Adele looks utterly gorgeous on the cover of Vogue both here and in America, ahead of the release of her new single and album.
A total transformation from the fulsome young woman who back in 2015 wrote Hello: that anthem for broken-hearted girls everywhere.
Now she's moved from Tottenham to LA, ditched half her body weight, conquered her anxiety and divorced husband Simon who, she said, 'saved me' when she was struggling with fame and alcoholism.
A pop colossus with the world at her feet, she also has a hot new boyfriend who is not intimidated by her celebrity and fierce independence.
One of her songs, she says, is about the failings of men and might even become a wake-up call for wives to ditch their dull husbands.
'Can you imagine couples listening to it in the car?' she asks. 'I think a lot of women will be like: 'I'm done.' '
Of her own 'not very long' marriage, she says: 'I . . . knew looking around me at other couples [that] I could become miserable. I knew I'd break Simon's and my son Angelo's heart, but I had to put myself first.'
Well, she sure did that — and this is where I have to admit my concerns.
Adele says that she 'voluntarily chose to dismantle [Angelo's] entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness': a wound to her child that she rightly fears will never heal.
Adele looks utterly gorgeous on the cover of Vogue both here and in America, ahead of the release of her new single and album
She goes on to say that, inspired by her therapist, she recorded conversations with Angelo, eight, about the divorce on her iPhone, and that one of these will feature on an upcoming song.
'I wanted to explain to him through this record, when he's in his 20s or 30s, who I am and why,' she explains.
Why didn't you write him a private letter, Adele, instead of disclosing his pain to your millions of fans?
A pop colossus with the world at her feet, she also has a hot new boyfriend who is not intimidated by her celebrity and fierce independence. Above: Adele with new boyfriend Rich Paul
She's moved from Tottenham to LA, ditched half her body weight, conquered her anxiety and divorced husband Simon (pictured) who, she said, 'saved me' when she was struggling with fame and alcoholism
She puts her dramatic weight loss down to exercising three times a day. One wonders how much time she is leaving to devote to poor Angelo, who has to make new friends in La La Land and start all over again.
I admire this proud and talented artist and I salute her physical reinvention.
But I hope that, in years to come, Adele will not find herself ringing an estranged Angelo to say: 'Hello from the other side . . . I'm sorry for everything that I've done.'
Game, set and bling to Emma
Thank heavens Andy Murray has been reunited with his wedding ring, which he'd carelessly left tied to his shoes (it gets in the way when he plays tennis) while they aired outside.
Long-suffering wife Kim has forgiven him, yet it makes me wonder why he can't just play wearing the ring?
Our Emma Raducanu smashed the U.S. Open drenched in Tiffany jewels, including £4,500 diamond earrings, a £2,750 pendant, a £17,100 diamond bracelet and, er, a £3,275 white gold ring.
Emma Raducanu smashed the U.S. Open drenched in Tiffany jewels, including £4,500 diamond earrings, a £2,750 pendant, a £17,100 diamond bracelet and, er, a £3,275 white gold ring
Fears, surely, for Kylie's future happiness as she moves to Australia while boyfriend Paul Solomons remains in London — but she is determined to make their love work.
She should be so lucky, as I'm not sure we Aussie gals are cut out for long-distance romance.
I tried that once with a bloke who lived in Leighton Buzzard. It lasted five weeks.
She's only ten, Vic
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