Adele celebrated her 36th birthday on Sunday. I always forget that she’s a Cinco de Mayo baby. Adele has been pretty quiet lately, she’s still doing her Las Vegas residency and spending the rest of her time in LA, cohabitating with Rich Paul and raising her son Angelo. In 2022, she was exerting public pressure on Rich to propose to her, and I still believe that he told her to cool it with that and to stop telling people that they were engaged or planning to get married. Rich released a book last year, and during his promotion, he really did not want to talk about Adele or whether or not they were already married (Adele referred to him as her “husband”). Well, sources in Adele’s camp gave People Magazine an update on her birthday:
Happy Birthday, Adele! The musician turns 36 on Sunday, May 5, and she couldn’t be happier with her career, relationship with Rich Paul and life as a mom to her 11-year-old son Angelo, sources exclusively tell PEOPLE.
“Adele loves to perform and loves her audiences,” a music insider says of her recent Las Vegas performances. “She is happy with her residency.”
The insider also says that in terms of how things are going with Paul — a 42-year-old sports agent to clients like LeBron James — their “relationship is solid.”
“They help each other and are good partners,” the source says, adding that Adele “loves being with him.”
Another source echoes this, telling PEOPLE, “Adele has been happy and enjoys her life as a parent and her time spent with Rich.”
Giving insight into the couple — who took their relationship public in July 2021 — the insider says that the singer and sports agent “like to laugh.”
“They inspire each other,” the source adds.
Ahead of her 36th birthday, the “Rolling in the Deep” hitmaker announced new dates for her Weekends with Adele residency in Las Vegas. The move comes after she previously postponed several of her shows in late February.
Rich and Adele have been out together recently so there’s every indication that they’re still together and still living together too. Adele is such a secret squirrel, she and Rich might have gotten married and simply not announced it. But I didn’t get that impression from his interviews last year. Given that Adele has said over and over again that she wants to get married again and have another kid, I do wonder if she’s sort of wasting her time with Rich, because he absolutely gives off the impression that he doesn’t want the same things? I don’t know though, as I said, Adele can go so undercover, maybe this isn’t as it looks from the outside.
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That’s not a man in love. The way he looks at her. The body language. The refusing to speak of her, even to praise her. Pure contempt. Speaking from a place of decades of time wasted married to a man like this, Adele is wasting her time, absolutely. Very sad, because men like this do so much damage to a woman’s sense of self. I hope for Adele’s sake I’m wrong about this, but body language and eyes don’t lie. Get out and heal, then find someone who will praise and adore you, starting with yourself.
He always came across like she stinks, and she’s coming across as someone who’s in love with someone who doesn’t return it..
I agree, I’ve been there too. Girl, he is just not that into you. And that’s ok if he is honest about not wanting anything serious. But I think he is stringing her along.
If we look on the bright side, there’ll be another interesting album down the road. I think a lot of that proposal pressure put him off a bit. Can’t say I blame him. She’s got issues and he’s probably now just trying to not become immortalised in music form. He probably should have thought that through before giving her the time of day. No fair leading her on, whatever sort of macadamia she is.
Sunk cost fallacy. She’s in love with someone who’s just not that into her. We know people who are in those kind of relationships, some of us have been in those relationships, and its just kind of sad overall.
If he’s not into her then why is he with her?
In her leaks, she’s always gushing about how she’s “obsessed” with him. She needs to play it cool and give him a little room. That “chasing” energy repels people. Beyond that, maybe he’s not just that into her anyway but for sure she’s too much of a pursuer in this relationship from what’s been leaked.