Adele Is Taking a Break from the Spotlight — Here's All the Times She's Done It Before30

Mar. 15, 2025

Adele in Los Angeles in December 2023.Photo:Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Adeleis gearing up to go on hiatus once again.

At a recent concert in Munich, the “Hello” singer, 36, told fans in the audience she would bestepping away from the spotlight"for an incredibly long time" after her Las Vegas residency ends in November.

Adele is set to perform the final 10 shows of her Weekends with Adele residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace from Oct. 25 to Nov. 23. The residency began in November 2022.

The “Easy on Me” singer has gone on various breaks from the spotlight in the past, including the six-year gap between her albums25and30.

Here’s all the times Adele has disappeared from the public eye.

Between ‘25’ and ‘30’

In 2020, Adele was captured announcing her return to music while performing at herbest friend’s wedding. In the Instagram video, she told friends to “expect my album in September.”

In the years between, Adele remained out of the spotlight. She did, however, make headlines over her weight loss.

“She looked like herself but also so different — beautiful but almost unrecognizable,” a source told PEOPLE of Adele’s appearance at an Oscars afterparty.

During this hiatus, she also confirmed hersplitfrom exSimon Koneckiafter more than seven years together.

In November 2021, Adele released30. When she announced its official release date, she opened up about what she went through in the recent years.

“I was certainly nowhere near where I’d hoped to be when I first started [this album] nearly 3 years ago,” shewrote on Instagram. “Quite the opposite actually. I rely on routine and consistency to feel safe, I always have. And yet there I was knowingly - willingly even, throwing myself into a maze of absolute mess and inner turmoil!"

She added, “I’ve learned a lot of blistering home truths about myself along the way. I’ve shed many layers but also wrapped myself in new ones. Discovered genuinely useful and wholesome mentalities to lead with, and I feel like I’ve finally found my feeling again. I’d go as far as to say that I’ve never felt more peaceful in my life.”

Adele performs in Las Vegas in January 2024.Kevin Mazur/Getty

Kevin Mazur/Getty

Between ‘21’ and ‘25’

This post marked Adele’s subtle return after she released21in 2011. The album earned her six Grammys.

In those four years, Adele was busy raising her now-11-year-old son Angelo.

Earlier that year,Phil Collinssuggested she’d be back in the spotlight soon. He toldInside South Floridahe was working on writing songs with Adele.

“I live in a cave, but she’s achieved an incredible amount,” the musicianreportedly said. “I really love her voice.”

At theHollywood Reporter‘s Women In Entertainment galain December 2023, she opened up about the break she took.

“The real reason that I’ve only had four albums and I don’t think that many people know this – they know that I have a child – my son is 11 years old," she said.

“So, if you do the maths, that means that at the height of 21… I fell pregnant. To many that would be, and it was, considered career suicide."

She added, “It was there and then that I chose to reject the scarcity of success, and the idea that you have to be constantly relevant to be successful.”

source: people.com