Adele turns her back on $300m mega-deal to spend time with her family
Adele concluded her Munich shows last weekend by telling fans: ‘I will not see you for an incredibly long time.’
The star added: “I just need a rest. I have spent the last seven years building a new life for myself and I want to live it now.”
And it can be revealed that the superstar singer is as good as her word, and then some.
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It would have been similar to her Weekends With Adele gigs at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Those started in November 2022 and will finish on November 23rd this year, by which time the singer will have played 100 gigs — reputedly for nearly $1 million a show.
But I am told the Macau gigs would have been ‘far better paid’.
The singer, whose hits include Rolling In The Deep and Hello, was also offered a stadium tour of Europe, Asia and South America.
A source said: “There have been a lot of offers but she has turned them all down because she wants to be home with her kid. The Chinese deal put millions of dollars on the table, but she did not want to do it in the end.
“She’s put her kid and boyfriend — and herself — first.”
For much of the past year the 36-year-old superstar, rumoured to be worth £165 million, has been shuttling from her huge new home in Beverly Hills to Vegas by private jet, returning to spend the week with sports agent Rich Paul — now her fiance — and son Angelo, who’ll be 12 next month.
The ten Munich shows, which she’s just finished, were highly lucrative, with Adele getting nearly $10 million per performance (and that’s not counting her cut of the merchandise).
In a radio interview in July, she revealed she wanted to focus on family and ‘other creative things’ after her residencies ended.
“I don’t have any plans for new music at all,” she said.
“I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.”
It’s understood she’s planning to relocate to the UK, where she has a luxury apartment in central London, later this year, as she’d prefer to raise Angelo in London.
