Adele Reveals The Truth Behind Her Most Viral Meme

Adele has set the record straight on a viral meme of her sitting courtside at an NBA basketball game.

In February 2022, a video of the singer looking disinterested and avoiding eye contact with the camera made the rounds online. On Feb. 17, during her “Weekends with Adele” Las Vegas residency show, she shared the real story behind the viral video.

“Do you remember that viral meme of me looking like I don’t give a flying f***?” she asked the audience. “It sounds crazy, but I really don’t like being famous, right?”

Adele, who attended the NBA game with her boyfriend, Rich Paul, went on to reveal that she was in fact “looking for Michael Jordan” and had requested not to be filmed. “The people with the camera came and asked me twice,” she said. “They were like, ‘Do you mind if we film you? Can we put you on the screen?’”

Revealing that she “didn’t realize they were airing it on TV,” Adele disclosed that she purposely looked “everywhere but the camera.”

“I was very annoyed because I had asked not to be filmed... I was like, ‘These motherf****** have come back and are filming me against my will!’” she added.

Speaking to the crowd at Caesars Palace, Adele also addressed claims that she had used lip filler in the video, clarifying, “The reason my lips looked like I had filler — because I’ve got naturally big lips, I don’t need filler — was because I was sulking.”

Adele’s European Residency

Audience interactions have become a staple part of Adele’s ongoing Las Vegas residency, which is set to conclude in June 2024, a couple of months before she launches a European residency in Munich, Germany on Aug. 14.

Announcing the 10-date residency on Jan. 31, she wrote in a statement, “I couldn’t think of a more wonderful way to spend my summer and end this beautiful phase of my life and career with shows closer to home during such an exciting summer. Guten Tag babes.”