Adele forks out millions renovating £46million Beverley Hills home – but keeps Sylvester Stallone’s beloved Rocky statue
ADELE forked out £46million when she snapped up Sylvester Stallone’s Beverly Hills mansion two years ago.
But I can reveal she still hasn’t moved in despite spending millions more gutting the home, renovating it and adding a whole new floor.
It already had eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms but the singer has extended it skywards, as well as building a garage for up to five luxury cars.
In the most recent building permit application last month, which suggests the pad is now nearing completion, Adele’s team said they are putting a “cool roof” on the structure to comply with strict specifications of properties in a “very high” Fire Hazard Severity Zone.
A source said: “When Adele bought the house she didn’t intend to change too much. But she has a team of Hollywood experts on board who suggested the extra floor.
“The house will be absolutely gigantic by the time it’s done. But it is looking incredible and she thinks it’s worthwhile. She wants it to be her forever home with her son Angelo and partner Rich Paul, and she dreams of extending her family there.”
The mammoth building job is being handled by celebrity construction company Valle Reinis.
It was founded by Brian Valle and TV actor Rob Reinis, son-in-law of Henry Winkler, who have featured in Elle Decor and Architectural Digest.
Her renovations are so major that one of the only things that is staying is a statue by the pool of Sly’s boxing character Rocky, with his fist raised aloft.
Sylvester said last year that he intended to take the figure with him when he moved, but he recalled: “She said, ‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal’. She wanted the statue.”
On Saturday, Adele performed the final night of this leg of her Las Vegas residency, ahead of shows in Munich in August.
She will return for ten concerts in October and November, before wrapping her Weekends With Adele series.
By then she will have performed 100 shows there — and hopefully her dream home is finished.
SAM BIG ON MUM UNDIES
SAM SMITH’s mum was driven round the twist by the singer growing up — because she could never find her underwear.
The Brit Award-winning singer, who came out as non-binary in 2019, revealed: “I would get in my mum’s bra and knickers and just dance every night after school when I’d had a s**t day.”
Speaking on The Pink House podcast, Sam said: “Weirdly, the only annoyance I remember from my parents was my mum was just p***ed off because she couldn’t find any of her bras.
“They would always be with me.
“There was maybe a little bit of annoyance with the clothing part of taking the clothes, but it was celebrated. I was very, very lucky.”
Shaun’s got home support in hate call
I ALWAYS knew Shaun Wright-Phillips was a talent on the football pitch – but he’s showing what a top bloke he is off it.
The former Man City winger has has teamed up with EE to front its “Hate. Not In My Shirt” campaign along with his daughter Raphaella.
Shaun said he hopes he can teach the new generation of football fans that abuse is never acceptable, at a time when research shows 37 percent of kids aged six to 15 have experienced at least one form of hate.
It’s time to stamp it out.
BETTY WILL BRING US SUNSHINE
BETTY BOO has summed up the feelings of a nation waiting for the warm weather to finally kick in
She played a gig at Islington Assembly Hall in North London on Saturday – and spoke for us all by performing her new song, Bring On The Summer.
Given the thunder, lightning and rain of recent days (and it hammered it down during my holiday in Mallorca) that’s certainly a message I can get behind. Betty, above, had a run of hits in the early 1990s including Doin’ The Do.
The latest track will be on her new album, Rip Up The Rulebook, which is due out at the end of August.
But I’m hoping she drops that song sooner.
I’ll get behind anything that can bring us some sunshine.