Piers Morgan has not held back regarding his opinion on Adele postponing her Weekends with Adele Las Vegas residency at such short notice. And as expected, he was less than complimentary! The 56-year-old controversial British journalist has always had very strong opinions on the 33-year-old “Easy On Me” singer, and he made it very clear that he found her postponing her show – which was due to kick off on Friday, January 21st this year at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace – “a disgrace.”
If you’ll recall, the Oscar-winner broke down in tears in a video posted to her Instagram on Thursday, January 20th, as she told fans that her highly-anticipated show wasn’t ready due to a number of different reasons. The 15-time Grammy winner told fans that the main reason was because the majority of her crew had tested positive for COVID-19, but it was later discovered that that was only the start of it, as the show wasn’t ready due to endless arguments with everyone from the set designer to Caesars Palace itself. As you can imagine, the former Good Morning Britain presenter wanted everyone to know that he wasn’t buying her excuses!
"So, it seems Covid was just a convenient excuse for the more likely truth, which is that Adele didn’t prepare properly and didn’t visit the stage before it was too late — and then threw an extended diva fit of Biblical proportions that culminated in her throwing her Meghan-like 'What Adele wants, Adele gets!' toys out of the pram and abruptly scrapping the entire residency a day before it was due to start," Morgan wrote in The Sun on January 25th, while also ensuring he didn’t miss an opportunity to take another dig at Meghan Markle in the process. Two birds, one stone and all…
"And by doing so, she destroyed God knows how many dream trips by die-hard fans who had shelled out not just on tickets, but flights and hotels, too," the former America's Got Talent judge continued, before adding that he believes the "Oh My God" singer should have made the best of what she had – even if it wasn’t perfect and to her high standards – so as to not disappoint her fans entirely, many of whom would have had to spend a lot of money to fly to Sin City (with all the added expenses of taking such a trip) just to watch her perform.
"Adele’s great gift used to be her rare relatability to those fans," the Life Stories presenter continued. "They believed in her because she was a working-class girl who treated them as equals. But now she has morphed into just another staggeringly rich, privileged, pampered prima donna who thinks it’s fine to pull the plug on months of shows at a moment’s notice because she can’t get everything she demands."
"The show didn’t go on for Adele — last seen on British TV a few weeks ago lapping up nauseatingly sycophantic compliments from a drooling celebrity audience — because her ego is now writing cheques her fans couldn’t even dream of cashing. And frankly, it’s a disgrace. If Freddie Mercury can make an album as he was literally dying, then she could probably have found the inner strength to pocket $500,000 a night to sing a few songs even if the set design wasn’t absolutely perfect. That would have been the right thing to do for the fans she professes to love so much. But sadly, it would appear health-obsessed Adele’s disappeared up her rapidly diminishing celebrity backside, and no amount of weeping and wailing can change that very disappointing fact."
