What could Adele do next after announcing break from music?
Adele has announced she is planning to take a "big break" from music.
The Rolling In The Deep star is currently on tour in Germany after spending the last two years doing a residency in Las Vegas. Adele, 36, has said her "tank is empty" and she doesn't even sing at home anymore. So when her Vegas show at Caesar's Palace ends in November, she'll be taking time off.
Will the Easy On Me singer simply put her feet up? She may have plans to take a new path in her life. Here are some of the possibilities Adele may explore during her break.
Back to school
Adele graduated from the BRIT School in 2006, having studied music at the prestigious stage school in Croydon, South London. She quickly shot to fame with her debut album 19, which took its title from the age she was when she wrote it.
The 36-year-old has spoken several times about wanting to go to university. The Chasing Pavements singer had been due to attend Liverpool University in England turned down her place when she was offered a record deal.
Adele has said she would love to study English and has always wished to get back the uni experience she missed out on. She said: "I really want to get a degree in English literature. If I hadn’t made it in my singing, I think I would definitely be a teacher. I think I’d be an English lit teacher."
The singer has previously spoken about he favourite teacher Miss McDonald, who taught her aged 13 at Chestnut Grove Academy in south London and inspired her love of English Literature. The pair were reunited on stage when Adele played the London Palladium in 2021.
Family plans
Adele is mother to 11-year-old son Angelo, from her marriage to Simon Konecki. The Skyfall singer has previously admitted she had mixed feelings about having another baby. In 2016 she said on stage during a concert: "My womb is starting to ache a little bit. It’s like, ‘Baby, baby, baby. Need a baby, need a baby.’ I’m not pregnant. I won’t get pregnant until the end of the tour." But just a few months earlier she said: "I don’t think I can have another child. I mean, I can. But I don’t think I want two."
Adele has been in a relationship with sports agent Rich Paul since 2021. In 2023 it was reported they had got married. Earlier this year Adele told the audience at her Vegas residency that she planned to have another baby once the show wrapped up at the end of the year. And she added she was hoping for a baby girl.
TV presenting
Making music is not Adele's only talent. The singer has a sharp wit and is appears confident on camera, some of the reasons that have made her Vegas residency and her Audience at the London Palladium so successful. Her hilarious appearance on James Corden's Car Pool Karaoke was perhaps one of the most celebrated and he invited her back to be part of his very last Car Pool Karaoke when he left The Late Late Show.
Back in 2016 Adele revealed what a great actor she is, when she went undercover - as an Adele impersonator for a sketch on the Graham Norton Show. With the help of a little prosthetic make-up she fooled a room full of Adele tribute acts into believing she was nanny called Jenny. She then wowed them with her voice and confessed she was the real Adele.
Adele knows how to laugh at herself. She once shared a bloopers reel from her music video on social media. She is a close friend of comedian and TV presenter Alan Carr and the pair have a great rapport together on screen.
So could a TV presenting or acting role be in the cards? Watch this space.
Pen to paper
The Someone Lile You singer has spoken openly about how important she has found therapy in her life, as well as being a big fan of self-help books. She once said: "If my voice ain't top-notch that's alright, but my soul is top-notch, I'll tell you that - that's what I try to say to my therapist."
Having coped with fame at a young age, come through a divorce, experienced successful weight-loss and found love and happiness again - not to mention all her massive musical achievements - Adele has a lot to write about. An Adele self-help memoir would surely be best seller.
Chasing inspiration
Adele might feel like her tank is empty and she doesn't "have any plans for new music at all" right now. But the singer has always said she needs a lot of time to work on an album. Her albums 19, 21, 25 and 30 have all been named after her age and period in her life that inspired the songs that went into them.
Adele revealed 30 took three years to write. She said: "It was bl**dy hard work to make. I was singing things I didn’t even realize I was feeling or thinking. But I’m really, really proud of it and I feel like I can’t unlock a door for my own mental health and take the key with me." And afterwards she told fans: "I just don’t think I’m gonna write an album for quite some time."
So while a "big break" may sound like Adele is taking time off from music, once she's done a bit more living, the next album could well be on the way. Is 40 her next big milestone to make into an album? Only time will tell.
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