Yahoo Movies Adele Chokes Up As She Plays Homecoming Hyde Park Gig: 'I'm So Happy To Be Here'
Adele performs on stage at BST Hyde Park (Photo: Gareth Cattermole via Getty Images)
An emotional Adele said she was “so happy” to be back playing for her home crowd as she fought back tears while performing her first UK live show in five years.
The singer headlined the first of two nights at British Summertime festival in London’s Hyde Park on Friday, where she treated the sold-out crowd to array of hits from across her four number one albums.
Taking to the stage, Adele became overwhelmed as she sang the opening lyrics to her hit Hello.
Choking up, she stopped singing and remarked: “I’m so happy to be here,” before asking the crowd to help her with the vocals.
Adele getting choked up the minute she got on stage 😭 such an incredibly special show!!! ❤️ #BSTHydeParkpic.twitter.com/XV7HIpvGQN
— Sabrina Barr (@fabsab5) July 1, 2022
Adele got emotional opening to Hello 🥺🥺 pic.twitter.com/uPjs4ABXPo
— Upu ³⁰ (@imyadele) July 1, 2022
She later said: “Guys, I’m back at home, also where I know. The amount of times I have been up there drunk off of my face, singing along to other artists at these shows.”
She added that she was “thrilled” to be back on stage but that she found it “strange to be in front of a crowd again”, which included her son and one of her best friends.
Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Luke Evans, Gavin & Stacey star James Corden and former One Direction singer Niall Horan were also in attendance.
Tom Cruise was photographed in one of the VIP areas backstage (Photo: Joe Maher via Getty Images)
During the two-hour set she performed classics tracks and new hits including Rumour Has It, One and Only, To Make You Feel My Love, Rolling In the Deep and Easy On Me.
Adele also stopped her performance of Bond theme Skyfall to help a fan in need of assistance, calling for security.
Just wanna say mad respect to Adele for stopping the show and making a scene when she thought someone was in trouble and needed help from security. That was a crowd of 65,000+ and she still did it. it really is that easy. #AdeleBSTpic.twitter.com/PBXdJChNuP
— kieran (@Kieran_sw) July 1, 2022
To close the show, Adele sang Love Is A Game accompanied by a spectacle of fireworks as she told the crowd: “I love you so much London.”
Adele is performing across two nights at the festival (Photo: Gareth Cattermole via Getty Images)
Ahead of her last song, she appeared to refer to the last-minute postponement of her Las Vegas residency earlier this year.
“I know that a lot of things have happened with this album and I’m sure a lot of you feel that you’ve been let down and stuff, which is mortifying really and upsetting to me,” she said.
“But I take my singing very seriously and the last thing I would ever want to do is let people down but I had to do that, it just wasn’t right.”
Adele sang a plethora of her biggest hits for fans (Photo: Gareth Cattermole via Getty Images)
Adele pulled the plug on the US dates at the last minute in January due to the show not being ready.
In an interview on The Graham Norton Show the following month, she said she is “working her arse off” to reschedule the dates, and that it will “100% happen this year”.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost UK and has been updated.
