Adele turns 30: From flipping the finger at the Brits to marrying Alan Carr here's the Hello singer's biggest moments

Adele performed to a sold-out crowd
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Emma Powell5 May 2018
The Weekender

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Adele has eighteen Billboard Music Awards, fifteen Grammy Awards, nine Brit Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe among others. She's dropped three albums and sold over 100 million records.

She's also been named one of the world's most influential people, not once, but twice by Time and has a five-year-old son - all before she hit 30.

So in celebration of her milestone birthday, we've rounded up some of her biggest moments from flipping the finger at the BRIT Awards to rapping to Nicki Minaj with James Corden.

1. Carpool Karaoke with James Corden

We all know Adele can belt out a ballad – but who knew she could rap? The British chart-topper perfectly spat out Nicki Minaj’s hit Monster after jumping into the front seat with Corden.

As with her music, her stint on the Late Late Show skit broke records to become the most viral video any late-night TV show has produced since 2013 after amassing 45 million views.

2. Meeting the Grenfell Tower firefighters

Rob Petty/ London Fire Brigade

Adele may be one of the biggest artists in the world right now – but she proved fame hasn't gone to her head after she popped in for a ‘cup of tea and a cuddle’ with the heroic firefighters who battled the devastating Grenfell Tower blaze.

The “wonderfully grounded” singer posed for photos with the crew at Chelsea Fire Station days after attending a vigil in Kensington for the victims.

3. She paid for Alan Carr’s wedding – and got ordained to officiate the ceremony

If you thought you had a great best friend, ask yourself this: would they pay for your wedding and get ordained to officiate the ceremony? That’s exactly what Adele did for Alan Carr when he tied the knot with his partner Paul Drayton in the back garden of her LA home. Oh, and she flew the couple out to Las Vegas to watch Celine Dion live in concert. #friendshipgoals.

4. She disguised herself as an Adele impersonator to surprise fans

Adele went incognito as childminder Jenny who talked “very calm and slow” to surprise a group of Adele impersonators. The singer covered her tattoos, smoothed out her bum chin and wore a prosthetic nose. No eyebrows were raised as she mingled with the group, until she took to the stage to sing and left the women in tears on clocking that they were watching the real Adele.

5. When she flipped the bird after getting cut off at the BRIT Awards

Take note – no one ever interrupts Adele. James Corden had to awkwardly cut her off midway through her Best British Album acceptance speech at the 2012 BRIT Awards. How did she respond? Told everyone she’d be back next year then flipped the finger to the camera.

Don’t. Mess. With. Adele.

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