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Adele says Vegas residency will “absolutely 100%” happen this year
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 14 February 2022
Adele has said that her postponed Las Vegas residency will “absolutely 100%” happen this year, because she has other plans for 2023 already. Mainly having a baby.
Her run of shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was supposed to begin in January, but was pulled at the last minute. In a tearful video announcing this news the day before the date of the first show, she said that delays and staff shortages due to COVID-19 meant that the residency was simply not ready to launch.
No new dates have yet been announced for that residency, leaving many ticket-holders worried that they may have to wait years rather than months. But now Adele has insisted that they will go ahead in 2022.
“It has to happen this year because I’ve got plans for next year”, she told Graham Norton on his BBC One show last week. “Imagine if I have to cancel because I am having a baby!”
Speaking about the decision to postpone the run, she added: “I tried my hardest and really thought I would be able to pull something together in time. I regret that I kept going until that late in the day. [But had I gone ahead] it would have been a really half-arsed show and I can’t do that. People will see straight through me up on the stage and know I didn’t want to be doing it. I’ve never done anything like that in my life and I’m not going to start now”.
“We are now working our arses off, but I don’t want to announce a new set of dates until I know everything will definitely be ready”, she went on. “The sooner I can announce the better, but I just can’t in case we are not ready in time. It is absolutely 100% happening this year”.
Norton suggested that people would be happy if it was just her and a piano up on stage, but she said this would not be grand enough for Las Vegas, and that she wants the show to be a progression from her last performances. Maybe her, a piano and a juggler then?
