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Adele dressed as an Adele impersonator, and managed to fool other Adele impersonators

Say ‘Adele’ again. Adele.

Nov 21st 2015, 9:02 AM 7,987 Views 0 Comments

9697557-low_res-adele-at-the-bbc Source: BBC/Guy Levy

LAST NIGHT, ADELE performed tracks from her new album 25 in a one-hour BBC special, hosted by Graham Norton.

In between songs, the singer chatted to Graham about her life and career, and played a prank on some of her biggest fans.

She went along to an audition for Adele impersonators, wearing a prosthetic nose and chin and calling herself ‘Jenny’.

BBC Music Source: BBC

fakechin Source: YouTube

Adele played Jenny as a nervous wreck, and faked missing her cue for To Make You Feel My Love. But then she actually started singing, and…

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As the impersonators slowly started twigging that it was the real Adele up there, the prank soon turned from funny to genuinely moving.

Source: BBC/YouTube

BBC Music Source: BBC/Tim Taggart

Adele. QUEEN.

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Adele dressed as an Adele impersonator, and managed to fool other Adele impersonators

Say ‘Adele’ again. Adele.

Never mind Adele, people are losing it over Enya’s new album… really>