Fun & Famous

PARTY: ADELE IS IN TOWN

These 9 things you probably didn't know about her

It took a bit long for you to return to the Netherlands, Adele. Five years. But tomorrow our patience will finally be rewarded. Since the British nightingale is giving a number of concerts here in the coming days and we want to get into the mood: 9 Adele facts in a row that you probably didn't know.

1. Adele owes her success – just like Justin Bieber – to social media. A good friend of hers posted one of her demos on Myspace (yes, that was cool back then) and shortly after came the call from XL Recordings. The rest is history…

2. Adele smokes like a chimney. This while she underwent throat surgery in 2011 and was strongly advised not to smoke again.

3. She has a miniature dachshund named Louis Armstrong and the photogenic four-legged friend has already posed for Vogue and Nylon. Just saying.

4. Adele really enjoys a drink and for that reason does not have the password to her own Twitter account. “I tend to tweet quite often when I'm drunk. So nowadays three people approve my tweets.”

”But tomorrow our patience will finally be rewarded”

5. The world-famous singer has quite a bit of stage fright. Just before the performance, she gets nauseous from the stress. In Amsterdam, she escaped via the fire ladder and in Brussels, she once threw up on stage… and on a fan in the front row… Yikes.

6. In Adele's class (At the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology), several talents were born. Adele was in class with Leona Lewis and Jessie J.

7. Lady Gaga is completely taken with the singer and even Beyoncé was so impressed by her voice that she used Adele as an inspiration for her album ‘4’.

8. The singer managed to keep her son's name a secret for no less than 94 (!) days from the public. He was born on October 19, 2012, and only in January 2013 did the press get his name, as Adele wore a necklace with the name ‘Angelo’. Busted.

9. Adele was completely drunk while writing some songs. “A drunken tongue is an honest one,” she described her writing process.