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By Zachary Swickey

BOO!

We recently told you about Adele’s new jaw-dropping digs – a 10 bedroom mansion in West Sussex, England – but all is not well with the singer, who now believes the home is haunted!

The British chart-topper had been living it up in her multi-million dollar mansion that rents at the pricey tag of $24,000 a month, but now she fears staying there alone due to possible paranormal activity – reportedly telling her friend that the house “gives me the creeps” after hearing one too many peculiar sounds in the night.

The security industry is getting a boost from Adele being so spooked – she’s moved her female bodyguard into the house for 24/7, monitoring at the low annual rate of £100,000. Additionally, she’s hired two new security guards to add to her task force and protect the 25-acre property. The creepy estate used to a be convent and even has a private chapel on the grounds – adding to the possible haunt factor.

“Adele was so excited to be renting such a lavish property, but it has not turned out as happily as it should have,” a source told The Sun. “She is convinced it is haunted. She knows about its religious history – and it’s a big place to be in on your own in the dead of night.” Read More...

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By Zachary Swickey

While Adele hangs around her multi-million dollar mansion, we know of one person who is still clearly not welcome: her father.

The British songbird told Vogue that she has absolutely no interest in keeping a relationship with her father, Mark Evans (who abandoned the Grammy-winning singer when she was three), following his story that he sold to The Sun last year that discussed his personal alcoholism and split from Adele’s mother.

“I was actually ready to start trying to have a relationship with him again. He’s f**king blown it. He will never hear from me again,” she told Vogue. “Because there is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It’s like, ‘Just let them run it, then. Don’t you give them ammunition.’”

She had plenty more left to say: “It makes me angry! To come back after ten years and be like, ‘Maybe her problem with men comes down to me.’ It’s like, ‘F**k off! How dare you comment on my life?’ It makes my blood boil.”

Adele feels her father doesn’t realize the consequences of publishing his story. “There’s consequences other than just getting a bit of f**king money that lasts you half a year. It blows my mind," she said. "‘I love her so much.’ Really? Why are you telling me that through a newspaper? If I ever see him, I will spit in his face."

In other, brighter, Adele news, the powerhouse singer has tied the late Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" soundtrack's 20 weeks at #1 with her smash-hit 21. The singer has also backtracked on her much-publicized quote about taking a break “for four of five years” – saying that’s simply not the case. (Thank goodness!)

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What an awfully big house you have, Adele!

One of the things we love so much about Adele is that she seems like a down-to-earth girl you'd like to go to the bar pub with for a few drinks. She's neither pretentious nor exhausting and seems like an all-around normal person.

But there's one element of her life that is far from normal – her new digs! Rolling deep in some cash from her blockbuster album 21, the pop star is currently renting a MASSIVE, 10-bedroom multimillion dollar mansion in West Sussex, England, for nearly $24,000 a month.

"Fed up with paparazzi staking out her home in London, she's just rented this very large, but very private home in the English country side," Anderson Cooper said during Adele's pre-Grammy "60 Minutes" interview as the British songstress gave the anchor a tour of the home.

"This is just safety, this house," Adele said. She even called the mansion, which Cooper revealed remains mostly unfurnished, a "cliché" but it's sadly apparently a necessary one. The paparazzi and tabloid press in her native England have become so intrusive that she sometimes plants semi-fictional stories within her own entourage to root out the rats. Once she sees the falsified details splashed across the papers, she knows who around her is talking to the press and fires them. Her new palace is really more of a hideaway so she can escape all the bull.

Having snitches in your midst is an unfortunate byproduct of notoriety (everyone wants a piece of you), but as you'd expect, Adele seems to have her head on straight about the whole thing.

Take a tour of the house, after the jump. Read More...

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By Zachary Swickey

Adele had a stellar year in 2011. Despite persistent voval chord problems that required surgery, she still managed to have the best selling album of the year with 21, which has moved more units than any release since Usher’s 2004 effort Confessions. So it’s pretty safe to say most of us are familiar with the heartache Adele channels on the album, which makes us happy to hear that she’s supposedly got a new beau to start the New Year with.

According to reports from The Sun (along with photographic evidence), Adele was seen kissing on her new boyfriend Simon Konecki while they were enjoying themselves at Florida’s Everglades National Park – indulging in an airboat ride together through some marshes, while both donning aviator shades. She may have gotten better about choosing a gentleman too, because Konecki sounds like a pretty stand-up guy – he’s the head of Drop4Drop, an English charity that is devoted to solving the world’s current water crisis. Perhaps his good karma will keep any songs from being written about him if things don’t work out.

Not that Adele was particularly harsh about her ex who is the main lyrical inspiration behind 21. The album progressively showcases all sides of the emotional rollercoaster that everyone goes on when ending a relationship. For example, album-opener (and smash hit) “Rolling in the Deep” is basically Adele’s big “f*** you” to her former lover, who reportedly called her weak and told her life without him would be boring for her (we’re sure it’s pretty easy for her to laugh that comment off at this point). Read More...

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By Sterling Wong

It wasn’t supposed to be like this: 2011 was supposed to be the year of Lady Gaga. Coming off a mammoth first album and incredibly successful world tour, the 25 year-old was expected to rule the world with her massively hyped and eagerly anticipated sophomore album, Born This Way.

Make no mistake, Gaga’s Born This Way was a success, debuting on the Billboard 200 with over 1 million copies sold and putting four singles in the top ten. But the real zeitgeist this year was unexpected: a humble, English, 23 year-old soul singer who we know simply as Adele.

The songstress found success with her first album, 2008's 19, but it was she, and not Gaga, who enjoyed sophomore success the likes of which have not been seen since… well, ever!

The key to Adele’s success is simple: Her soaring, soulful vocals, coupled with heartfelt lyrics and elegiac production, stood out and struck a chord in the hearts of everyone from teenagers mourning the loss of love to grandmothers enjoying the throwback feel of her songs.

Here’s a gander at some of the impressive numbers Adele’s racked up this year (there were so many we couldn’t begin to list them all!): Read More...

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