Adele almost never does public events, but her 13-year-old son Angelo’s Formula 1 obsession pulled her trackside at Silverstone on Sunday for the British Grand Prix. She’s spent years dodging the spotlight, so a Sunday in the paddock counts as a real sighting.
Adele almost never does public events, but her 13-year-old son’s Formula 1 obsession pulled her trackside at Silverstone on Sunday. She turned up in a fan tee for McLaren’s Lando Norris and a fine necklace spelling “Mummy,” and watched Charles Leclerc take his first British Grand Prix win.
Adele, 38, has spent years dodging the spotlight, so a Sunday afternoon in the Silverstone paddock counts as a real sighting. The reason she was there traces back to her only child, Angelo, who she shares with ex-husband Simon Konecki.
Two days before the race, she gave a rare interview admitting they’ve bonded over a shared F1 “obsession” after he got into karting, the entry point most drivers use to reach the sport.
“I don’t know many teenagers who have a passion so I’m really trying to encourage it,” she said. “He’s obsessed but I’m also obsessed.”
The interview came out of an access-all-areas family visit to the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, where she took Angelo to meet Norris, team boss Andrea Stella, CEO Zak Brown, and driver Oscar Piastri. Piastri coached her through a simulator run. In Mission Control with Stella she played race engineer and pitched a cheeky alternative to the standard “Box, box” pit call. She joked her way into rooms she wasn’t sure she was cleared for.
Sitting down with Norris, she was asked whether she still enjoys singing. “I don’t sing very often anymore,” she said, before pulling on a driving headset and firing off a few lines of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time.”
“Sorry, I feel like Britney Spears,” she added. She also called it “ridiculous” that her job is being a singer, saying she’d once wanted to work in A&R and never thought of herself as the talent.
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