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EVeN though she hasn ’t re­leased any new mu­sic or toured in the last 12 months, Adele’s for­tune is re­ported to have grown by £15mil­lion over the past year.
The Lon­don-born singer is said to now be worth £140 mil­lion, up from £125 mil­lion the pre­vi­ous year. A 121-date tour which ended in the sum­mer of 2017 net­ted her £42 mil­lion alone.
Now al­most en­tirely res­i­dent in Los An­ge­les, she trav­els by £50 mil­lion pri­vate jet, favours pricier yel­low di­a­monds rather than bor­ing white ones and is thought to have a staff which in­cludes a stylist, per­sonal trainer , as­sis­tant and a body­guard — or two.
Her house is around the cor­ner from close pal Jen­nifer Lawrence, the Os­car -win­ning ac­tress, and her 30th birth­day party this spring was themed around the film Ti­tanic and fea­tured a spe­cially made set to look just like the ball­room from the film.
The cost? es­ti­mated at £250,000. The flow­ers alone for the wed­ding bash she threw for her pal Alan Carr in Jan­uary were said to have cost around £10,000 — and were ap­par­ently cre­ated by the K ar­dashi­ans’ favourite florist, Jeff Leatham.
And all that’s be­fore you get into her stu­pen - dous de­signer hand­bag col­lec­tion, which is worth more than £50,000.
In Los An­ge­les this spring , her man-moun­tain was seen car­ry­ing her bags back to the car, along with a woman who is be­lieved to be her per­sonal as­sis­tant.
There is a larger team when she is tour­ing. The se­cu­rity is said to be co-or­di­nated through Gavin de Becker , who runs Hol­ly­wood’s lead­ing close pro­tec­tion out­fit and also runs se­cu­rity for Sir P aul McCart­ney and the Beck­hams.
It would be highly un­usual if she didn’t also have a chef and nanny in the staff quar­ters of her home, just like her close friends Rob­bie Wil­liams and his X F ac­tor judge wife Ayda Field, whom she sees a lot.
Some of her staffing ex­penses will be met by her record com - pany and tour pro­mot­ers, but in all this will cost not less than £250,000 a year.
ADeLe loves de­signer hand­bags and was seen out this sum­mer with a clas­sic Ophidia de­sign Gucci bag cost­ing £765. She also has the mas­sive Gucci hound - stooth tote, which costs £2,000.
Other bags in her col­lec­tion in­clude a ca­pa­cious patch­work leather num­ber by Ce­line, a Jimmy Choo Ros­abel (£975), a jumbo padded Chanel bag (£1,200) and nu­mer­ous smaller Chanel over-the- shoul­der bags, plus ones from Louis Vuit­ton and Mul­berry, as well as a Burberry Pror­sum Knight stud­ded hand - bag, which costs £1,156. She’s also been seen car­ry­ing what looks like a clas­sic Birkin in tan leather, cost­ing around £15,000.
She loves de­signer shoes and boots, too. even the low- key can­vas sneak­ers she wore out to din­ner in May were de­signer — by Yves Saint Lau­rent — and cost £600. She has a pair of leather lace-up Chloe boots which she loves and set her back £920.
Stylist Daniela Neil did her fa­mously bouncy hair for the video for Hello, but she more of­ten turns to Hol­ly­wood’s ‘It hair stylist Chris Ap­ple­ton, who also looks af­ter the K ar­dashi­ans and Jen­nifer Lopez, and does Ari­ana Grande’s pony tails.
She has ses­sions with per­sonal trainer P ete Geracimo, par­tic­u­larly when pre­par­ing for her tours.
ADeLe has been named as a client of the Drip Doc­tors in Los An­ge­les who give in­tra­venous vi­ta­min boosts. Their pop­u­lar Lim­it­less drip con­tains an­tioxi - dant glu­tathione and vi­ta­mins C and B-com­plex, and costs £180 — but you can dou­ble that price if you re­quire a house call.
Adele has had at least two cour­ses of hypnotherapy to try and help her stop smok­ing , one with Su­san Hep­burn and one with Max Kirsten.
For a time she used the food com­pany Pure P ack­age in an at­tempt to lose weight. It pro - vides calo­rie - con­trolled meals de­liv­ered to the doorsteps of the rich and fa­mous at a cost of thou­sands a year.
This plan pro­motes eat­ing foods high in the pro­tein sir­tuin. This in­cludes ap­ples, cit­rus fruits, pars­ley, ca­pers, blue­ber­ries, green tea, soy, straw­ber­ries, turmeric, olive oil, red onion, rocket and kale. Red wine and dark choco - late are per­mit­ted.
More se­ri­ously, Adele has twice suf­fered se­ri­ous and po­ten­tially ca­reer- end­ing is­sues with her voice, and has turned to lead­ing spe­cial­ists in Bos­ton for surgery. In 2011 she had a haem­or­rhage
to her vo­cal cords af­ter sing­ing live on a French ra­dio show. She had vo­cal cord mi­cro­surgery car­ried out by Dr Steven Zei­t­els, whom she thanked a few weeks later from the stage at the Em­mys.
She is sing­ing again — she came to Lon­don this sum­mer for a cou­ple of months and worked on ma­te­rial for a new al­bum which might come out next year.
How­ever it seems very un­likely that she will risk strain­ing her voice again with a tour, now mat­ter how lu­cra­tive.
The prof­fered pay is said to be a stag­ger­ing £ 500,000 a night and she dis­cussed do­ing it with singer Ce­line Dion when they met in Ve­gas in Jan­uary this year. But at the mo­ment the an­swer seems to be no.
How does a su­per­star travel? By pri­vate jet, of course. While on tour in 2017 she was seen us­ing a white Gulf­stream G650 — the ne plus ul­tra of pri­vate jets.
It seats around eight pas­sen­gers, de­pend­ing on how the in­te­rior is con­fig­ured and can fly long range, i.e. from Los An­ge­les to the UK or New Zea­land. They cost £50 mil­lion new and £35 mil­lion sec­ond­hand, but its likely that it will have been hired for her and this costs around £12,000 an hour. Adele passed her driv­ing test in oc­to­ber 2013 and within weeks she vis­ited the Porsche Cen­tre in Chiswick, West Lon­don, to or­der a Porsche Cayenne 4x4. The £100,000 car is black with a leather in­te­rior, has per­son­alised stitch­ing. Within six months she bought a black Range Rover. She seems to have a se­lec­tion of black Range Rovers on both sides of the At­lantic.
PO­LICE to­day launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter thieves stole a mo­tor­cy­cle in a North-east town.
The Aprilia RSV 1000 has dis­tinc­tive paint­work, in­clud­ing a red un­der­side which fea­tures the word APRILIA in large let­ter­ing.
Grampian Po­lice to­day said they would like to speak to any­one with in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ing to the theft of the mo­tor­cy­cle or any­one with in­for­ma­tion which may as­sist with their en­quiries.
At 23-2, Lan­cashire were star­ing down the bar­rel. Liam Liv­ing­stone and Alex Davies lifted them high though
SCAR­LETS head coach Wayne Pi­vac was not a happy man af­ter his side threw away their lead against Ed­in­burgh on Fri­day night.
The Welsh side led 21-17 af­ter 49 min­utes but they let Ed­in­burgh back in with No.8 Vil­iame Mata and wing Tom Brown both scor­ing try-dou­bles.
“We should have kicked on when we went ahead,” Pi­vac said. “In­stead we let Ed­in­burgh score a try when they had 14 men and then made silly er­rors with ball in hand for the rest of the match.”
Op­po­site num­ber Richard Cock­er­ill, miss­ing 22 of his squad through in­jury or Scot­land duty, said: “Given the play­ers we were miss­ing I am proud of the team’s ef­forts to get this win.”
Ed­in­burgh took the lead when Fijian Mata pow­ered over in the eighth minute. Si­mon Hickey con­verted.
Dan Evans missed a penalty for Scar­lets and on 12 min­utes there was a long stop­page when Scar­lets back row Blade Thom­son was knocked out when his head con­nected with an op­po­nent’s knee.
When play re­sumed it was his team who lev­elled things up. A nice move saw winger Mor­gan Wil­liams go in on the left and Evans nailed the con­ver­sion to make it 7-7.
War­riors re­gained the lead 10 min­utes later, Mata go­ing close again be­fore wing Tom Brown straight­ened up and made it over the try line.
Hickey missed the con­ver­sion, but six min­utes later a floated pass by Ed­in­burgh skip­per Henry Pyr­gos saw Brown in for his sec­ond try.
Scar­lets closed the gap to three points at the break, cen­tre Paul Asquith latch­ing onto a neat Jones kick to score.
Scar­lets s grew in con­fi­dence and with Ed­in­burgh on the back foot, Hickey was yel­low carded for not re­leas­ing in the tackle.
Scar­lets took ad­van­tage with full-back Johnny Mc­Ni­choll go­ing over for a con­verted try in the 49th minute.
Scar­lets prop Si­mon Gar­diner was yel­low carded for a re­peat team of­fences and Mata’s sec­ond try made the win safe.