Adele has given a very rare interview about son Angelo on Friday as she revealed they have bonded over their joint ‘obsession’ with Formula 1.
The megastar, 38, made a surprise appearance at the McLaren Racing headquarters where she chatted to chief executive Zac Brown and F1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Adele couldn’t contain her excitement as she gushed that she has created a close ‘bond’ with her 13-year-old son, who she shares with ex-husband Simon Konecki, after he took an interest in karting, which is how F1 drivers progress into the sport.
She said: ‘So my son is really into karting and things like that. I don’t know. He just sort of asked about it a couple of years ago and I was like, “All right.”
‘I don’t know many teenagers who have a passion so I’m really trying to encourage it. He’s obsessed but I’m also obsessed.
Adele has given a very rare interview about son Angelo on Friday as she revealed they have bonded over their joint ‘obsession’ with Formula 1
The singer, 38, made a surprise appearance at the McLaren Racing headquarters and gushed that she has created a close ‘bond’ with her 13-year-old son after he took an interest in karting
She continued: ‘But just like when your kid has an interest, you have to lean into it. More importantly, I think you have to be interested in it.
‘And I don’t think I ever expected to bond with my soon to be 14 year-old son about something so passionately where we like argue about drivers, you know.
‘But it’s fun to have that interaction with a teenage boy in 2026, I wasn’t expecting it’.
The 16-time Grammy Award winner later sat down for a candid chat with 2025 F1 World Champion Lando, who asked, ‘Do you actually still enjoy singing?’
Adele admitted: ‘I don’t sing very often anymore’, but as she pulled on the driving headset she couldn’t help but belt out a few lines of Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time.
The Hello singer went on to discuss how ‘ridiculous’ her job is as she opened up about her ‘struggles with fame’.
‘Oh my god. I think it is ridiculous that my job is being a singer. No, never believed [it would happen]’, she said. ‘I wanted to be an A&R. I never thought that I was the talent.
‘I knew I was really good with music, which is why I thought I’d be so good at discovering new talent.
‘It is incredibly unlikely that a girl from Tottenham is going to go on to have any kind of career in England, let alone sort of universally and stuff like that. So, it was never an option.
‘It’s very well known that I struggle with the fame side of it. If I remind myself like it’s a joke that my job is being a singer, I just always try and lean into that.’
She said: ‘So my son is really into karting. I don’t know many teenagers who have a passion so I’m really trying to encourage it. He’s obsessed but I’m also obsessed’
She continued: ‘But just like when your kid has an interest, you have to lean into it. More importantly, I think you have to be interested in it. And I don’t think I ever expected the bond’
The 16-time Grammy Award winner later sat down for a candid chat with Lando Norris who asked, ‘Do you actually still enjoy singing?’ Adele admitted: ‘I don’t sing very often anymore’
It comes after Adele’s partner Rich Paul gave a rare insight into his five-year relationship with the singer.
The sports agent, 45, was first linked to the music superstar, 38, back in 2021 after they attended an NBA game together, with Adele then confirming their engagement three years later.
But while the couple are usually quite private about their romance, a new interview has seen Rich open up about his high profile relationship, spilling the beans on how they met and what turned their ‘cordial’ bond into something more.
During a recent appearance on Craig Melvin’s Glass Half Full podcast, Rich revealed that the pair had met ‘through a friend’, adding that he ‘had known her for some time’ before they began dating.
Expanding further, he explained: ‘You know, just when you’re in these circles, man, you’re in these circles. But I never tried to get fresh with people that’s in comfortable circles because they always have to deal with that, so that was never my thing.
‘It was really something that happened very organically, really.’
When pushed further to reveal how they got together, Rich told how they had bumped into each other on numerous occasions, which led to them becoming closer.
He told Craig: ‘We’re all in the same vicinity, we’re all in the same circles, and, you know, we’re hanging and whatnot.
‘We just used to always see each other, laugh and joke. It was just cordial, really, just cordial.’
The entrepreneur, then joked that things between them remained cordial ‘until it became not so cordial’, before he eventually became a ‘person of interest’ for the iconic British singer.
The Hello singer went on to discuss how ‘ridiculous’ her job is as she opened up about her ‘struggles with fame’
The Easy On Me songstress shares 13-year-old son Angelo with ex husband Simon Konecki; pictured 2013
It comes after Adele’s partner Rich Paul gave a rare insight into his five-year relationship with the singer; pictured together in 2023
During the chat, Rich also admitted that he wasn’t an active listener of Adele’s music, although he ‘can’t help but to hear the monster hits’.
He said of his partner, who has sold over 120 million records worldwide: ‘Obviously, you know, I’m pretty on the pulse of a lot of different things, and so, you know, some of the songs, the big songs, but I didn’t know all of the joints that I know now.’
It comes after Adele opened up about wanting to have more children with Rich.
During one of her shows, she made a candid confession, telling her fans in the audience: ‘I really want to be a mum again soon, so every time I see a name I like, I write it down in my phone.’
She shared two particular names she liked, Parker and Spencer, before adding, ‘I can’t say Parker because Rich likes that name.’
She later added: ‘You know what else, I like Ray for [a girl] spelt like a boy’s name.’
