The whole world is Adele crazy at the moment, unsurprisingly as the singer has just released her first new material in six years.
As well as the chart-topper Easy On Me, which was unleashed on October 15, her new album 30 is now out – and she’s the subject of two new TV specials, including An Audience With Adele, which screens on ITV on Sunday night and sees her performing for a star-studded crowd.
The new TV event follows One Night Only, which aired in the US last week and which saw Adele being interviewed by Oprah – and as well as talking about her career, she also touched on topics including her parents, and her relationship with her late father.
Just who are Adele’s parents? Here’s what you need to know…
Who are Adele’s parents?
Penny Susan Adkins was born in 1968 in Islington, north London.
She fell unexpectedly pregnant with Adele at the age of 18 after meeting the singer’s father Mark Evans – and gave up on her dreams of university to raise her baby daughter.
Adele has previously said: ‘She fell pregnant with me when she would have been applying for uni, but chose to have me instead. She never, ever reminds me of that. I will try to remember it.’
Penny and Mark split up when Adele was nine months old, and maintained a friendly relationship until Mark spiralled into alcohol addiction in 1999.
After that she raised her daughter alone as a single parent – taking on various different jobs including a furniture maker and a masseuse in order to support the pair.
Although she remains private and lives her life away from the spotlight, Adele has described her mum as her ‘best friend’ and often credited her with her success – and has said she was the inspiration behind such tracks as Million Years Ago and Hometown Glory.
In 2013 she gifted her a £600,000 Notting Hill property as a thank you for everything she had done for her.
Adele’s dad Mark Evans sadly died this year aged 57 after battling bowel cancer.
Although he also largely remained private, he admitted in a 2011 interview that he wished he had been there for his daughter, telling The Sun: ’I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me.
‘I was putting away two litres of vodka and seven or eight pints of Stella every day. I drank like that for three years. God only knows how I survived it.’
He added: ‘I was deeply ashamed of what I’d become and I knew the kindest thing I could do for Adele was to make sure she never saw me in that state.’
Despite their strained relationship, Adele told Oprah Winfrey they had reconciled before his death, when she played him tracks from her new album.
‘I felt that huge gaping hole filled,’ Adele said during her One Night Only interview. ‘We forgave each other.
‘We found our peace together, and then I played the album to him on Zoom.’
An Audience With Adele is on ITV on Sunday night at 7.25pm.
MORE : Adele: How producers planned that adorable surprise proposal on One Night Only
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