Adele shares 'tears' over sweet Welsh childhood memory with fans in Vegas as residency comes to an end
In one of her final Las Vegas shows after two years performing in the iconic Caesar's Palace, Adele spoke fondly about going to visit her grandparents in Wales. Referencing the new documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a documentary film about the life of Superman star Christopher Reeve.
In a video shared by Guardians of the Galaxy and director of the upcoming 2025 Superman movie, James Gunn, on Instagram, Adele couldn't praise the documentary enough. The film on Reeve, who was paralysed after a horse riding accident in 1995, reminded the Rolling in the Deep singer of watching the actor's Superman films from the 1970s and '80s at her grandparents' house in Wales.
Talking to the crowd, Adele said: "It is probably one of my favourite documentaries I've ever seen actually and I couldn't recommend it enough... it was so beautiful, I cried my eyes out, it made me smile, it was just so very very beautiful and all those Superman movies remind me of my nanna and grampy in Wales.
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"Because yannoe, back in the day, you could put the cassette in, look at me bigging them up to basically say we were doing [breaching] copyright... you could record things off the TV so we had all four of them from when they would be on TV and I got to watch them every time I would go and visit them in Wales, so maybe it was a bit nostalgic for me as well but it was absolutely brilliant and so beautiful."
Her Welsh grandparents were the parents of Adele's dad, Mark Evans, who died in 2021 and the pair had a difficult relationship throughout her life. Previously, appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2022, Adele opened up about her experiences of being "smothered with love" when she visited her Welsh grandparents while growing up.
Choosing tracks like Dreams by Gabrielle and He Needs Me by Nina Simone on the BBC Radio 4 show, Adele lovingly recalled memories of trips to Penarth and how proud her 'grampy' would have been of her career. "He was a plumber, my grampy and he used to go to work all day and he'd come back and he'd be smelling of like, being a plumber and I loved it," said the singer.
"We'd have a cuddle, watch the six o'clock news - a bit dry - or I was baking with my nana and just... yeah, I was spoiled rotten and smothered with love. It just felt like a really great routine. You know, which I've always lacked in most of my life." Adele dedicated her 2016 Glastonbury set to her grandfather.
James Gunn, who is an American screenwriter, director and producer behind huge films like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad is currently working on the 2025 film Superman which stars David Corenswet as the ninth actor to play live-action, adult Superman in TV and film. Gunn was a keen supporter of the Reeve documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story which is available to watch on Amazon Prime and the documentary is presented in a non-linear narrative, alternating between before and after Christopher's horse-riding accident. For the latest TV & Showbiz news, sign up to our newsletter.
