Adele fans have raged that they’ve been left out of pocket after the singer postponed the next leg of her Las Vegas residency due to sickness.
Days after revealing she’d been placed on vocal rest, the singer, 35, shared the sad news that all 10 of her March shows would be pushed back to a later date after being ordered to rest on ‘doctors orders.’
Adele is due to wrap up her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in June, and is thought to be earning around £1.5 million per show.
Many fans have been left frustrated that they can’t make the rescheduled dates as they have already spent money on plane tickets and hotels for when they thought it would be.
Fans won’t be able to get a refund as she hasn’t cancelled the shows – just rescheduled them.
One said in reaction on Twitter: ‘I really feel for all the Brits and Aussies who are in Vegas this weekend and spent a lot of money to see Adele. What a s**t thing to happen. She’s so flaky.’
Another penned: ‘Oh man. This is the second time this has happened to me and my wife. First time in London 2018. Total bummer. Get well soon. :-(.’
A third said: ‘This was a gift to myself for my birthday. My family made plans & we bought tickets/booked the hotel. I’ve been through 3 Ticketmaster headaches & it was all for nothing. I want to say I’m shocked but I’m not, just disappointed. I don’t want crocodile tear apologizes anymore.’
Someone else said: ‘Adele this has become a norm. Not finishing your shows. Do better. If you’re don’t like doing plenty shows, then stop doing them.’
A fifth said: ‘So who’s paying me back for the expenses of my trip that are non refundable?.’
Another tweeted: ‘I want to say I’m shocked but I’m not, just disappointed. I don’t want crocodile tear apologizes anymore.’
Someone else wrote: ‘Well, this is not fair. We have tickets, rooms, airlines, everything paid […] So not right Adele, you should’ve did this two months ago [instead] of people buying everything to Vegas.’
Whilst one person said: ‘She did this last year. She shouldn’t commit to dates if she can’t handle that number of shows.’
One said in reaction on Twitter: ‘I really feel for all the Brits and Aussies who are in Vegas this weekend and spent a lot of money to see Adele. What a s**t thing to happen. She’s so flaky’
Another penned: ‘Oh man. This is the second time this has happened to me and my wife. First time in London 2018. Total bummer. Get well soon. :-(‘
Another penned: ‘You should not have booked so many shows. Who is paying for flights and hotels that are already booked.’
Posting a statement on Instagram. Adele wrote: ‘Sadly I have to take a beat and pause my Vegas residency. I was sick at the end of the last leg and all the way through my break.
‘I hadn’t quite gotten the chance to get back to full health before shows resumed and now I’m sick again, and unfortunately it’s taken a toll on my voice.
‘And so on Doctors orders I have no choice but to rest thoroughly. The remaining five weekends of this leg are being postponed to a later date.
‘We are already working out the details and you will be sent the information ASAP.’
Adele went onto list the dates of her residency that would be postponed, which included every weekend in March.
Over the weekend, Adele revealed she was taking several days of vocal rest after suffering a scare during her Las Vegas residency.
Stessed and emotional Adele complained of suffering voice issues, which made her sound like the cartoon villain ‘Ursula’ from The Little Mermaid.
The Londoner apologized to the audience at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace admitting she had concerns about hitting notes over a chest issue.
However the self confessed motormouth, 35, will have to ‘lock herself away’ to stop chatting with her sociable son and partner Rich Paul.
Adele, who underwent surgery for polyps in her throat in 2011, made it clear to Saturday’s packed house of those concerned about her performance at the start of her show.
The star, who has battled cord issues in the past, admitted: ‘In the middle of last night – I’m sure you can hear it in my talking voice and my singing voice a little bit. Your girl was tired. I didn’t sleep very well…
‘And Ursula from the ocean has come from my chest tonight. I can’t hit my headnotes properly. I didn’t sleep very well and my chest is on fire.. I can tell I’m going to have a coffee in like 10 days, but I’m still here.’
She added of her delight at the audience’s ‘energy’ being so positive it aided her mood.
But then she declared: ‘Straight after this show I am going on voice rest. Can you imagine how hard now me not talking for three days is? So I’m going to be in bed coughing my guts up on complete voice rest…
‘And not only is my partner an absolute chatterbox, so is my son. So I am going to have to lock myself in a cupboard or something like that.’
Adele lasted for a 100 minutes in her song, often sipping honey and hot water in between tunes.
Welling up on stage, Adele seemed to feel a little better, but acknowledged her voice issues as she ended the sold out show: ‘My voice came back about four songs ago…
‘You’ve been amazing. The show. Thank you, thank love, magical, magical, all putting it together from the moment out. I’m so glad you had a good time. I look crazy, I feel crazy… I’m going to go on voice rest.’
Adele still has 20 Vegas shows left before heading off to Munich for summer stadia gigs. Her last world tour Adele Live saw her cancel her last two shows at Wembley Stadium in 2017 over vocal worries.
She underwent vocal cord surgery in October 2011 to alleviate recurrent hemorrhaging caused by a benign polyp.
Last month, Adele reportedly revealed to fans that she collapsed backstage before a performance due to a sciatica attack, according to The Sun.
She allegedly told fans: ‘They picked my whole body up off the floor.’
Adele also was forced to sit down during her Weekends With Adele performance, explaining: ‘I am going to sit down and rest my sciatica.’
Sciatica is a debilitating back condition that normally occurs due to a slipped disk, which presses against the sciatic nerve that runs from the lower back to the foot.
It can cause shooting pains, a sensation of cramp and can be so severe it leaves someone unable to walk.
Earlier this year Adele detailed her chronic back pain during another Las Vegas show as she hobbled across the stage.
While talking to the crowd as she fired T-shirts into the crowd using a handheld cannon, she said: ‘I’ve got two more, I’ve just got to get over to the other side of the stage.
‘I have to waddle these days because I have really bad sciatica,’ Adele added in the video obtained by the Daily Star.
Adele has previously discussed being in pain for ‘half her life’, prior to losing weight and how her body overhaul has helped her cope with her problems.
The Grammy winner began her Vegas residency in November 2022, after the shows were postponed by nearly a year.
Just hours before she was due to kick off her residency in January of that year, Adele revealed that the shows had been delayed, sparking fan uproar.
Adele’s initial video revealing that the show would not proceed led to pandemonium for fans who had already traveled to Vegas for the initial shows just before the last-minute announcement.
The Grammy Award winning songstress wept as she explained to fans that she had ‘tried everything’ to get her show up and running but Covid had ‘destroyed’ everything.
She said in a video shared to her social media channels: ‘I’m so sorry, but my show ain’t ready.
‘We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid.
‘Half my crew and team are [ill] with Covid and still are, and it’s been impossible.’
Although she claimed in her tearful video that many of the people on her team had contracted Covid-19, subsequent reporting indicated that the hitmaker wasn’t happy with the stage show.
Several sources claimed that the British star had issues with the set design, and they singled out an on-stage pool that she was set to sing over during one of the numbers.
‘When she saw the finished design, she refused to take part,’ an insider told The Sun. ‘Adele described the pool as a ”baggy old pond” and refused, point blank, to stand in the middle of it.
‘The intention was to fill it with water on the set as she was lifted up on a crane-type mechanism, creating the illusion she was floating on water.’
Adele went onto admit that staging issues forced her to postpone the residency in an interview with Elle in August of that year.
‘There was just no soul in it,’ she said. ‘The stage setup wasn’t right. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy. And maybe I tried too hard to give it those things in such a controlled environment.’
Although she was initially ’embarrassed’ after the failure, she eventually found a way to be ‘proud’ of herself for standing up for the best possible show.
‘The first couple of months was really, really hard,’ she said. ‘I was embarrassed. But it actually made my confidence in myself grow, because it was a very brave thing to do. And I don’t think many people would have done what I did. I’m very proud of myself for standing by my artistic needs.’
The shows were originally set for The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Vegas, but after the postpone, it was rumored that Adele might try to move the show to a larger venue, though one still owned by Caesars.
However, it was revealed to be staying put when the final dates were announced.
Even before her tear-streaked announcement that the shows were temporarily off, Adele fans were furious after presale tickets sold through Ticketmaster sold out within minutes.
Resale market options were out of the question for many fans, as the ticket prices were inflated to between $1,000 and $37,000 dollars.
