Multi-millionaire Adele’s estranged dad scraping a living as a £50-a-day Yodel driver
ADELE’S estranged dad is scraping a living as a Yodel driver. Mark Evans, 55, who has not spoken to his daughter for years after a bitter falling-out, earns £50 to £100 a day delivering packages. The Sun snapped the reformed alcoholic on his rounds near Cardiff on Wednesday. It came as Adele, worth around £140million, […]
ADELE’S estranged dad is scraping a living as a Yodel driver.
Mark Evans, 55, who has not spoken to his daughter for years after a bitter falling-out, earns £50 to £100 a day delivering packages.
The Sun snapped the reformed alcoholic on his rounds near Cardiff on Wednesday.
It came as Adele, worth around £140million, was spotted at a New York recording studio, sparking rumours she is working on her fourth album.
Mark left Adele’s mum Penny when the singer was three and was hardly there as she grew up.
Adele, 30, cut him out of her life in 2011 after he spoke publicly about their lives and suggested his absence was to blame for her rocky love life. She said at the time: “He’ll never hear from me again.”
A pal said: “He knows he’s made mistakes but he’d love to patch things up and get a bit of forgiveness.
“He’s not after her money or anything, he just wants to be a normal grandad and buy his grandson ice cream and stuff.
“He’s heartbroken. He hasn’t got a life really, he’s just existing. He used to be a plumber but switched to the driving a few months ago.”
Mark, who lives alone in a small rented house in Bridgend, South Wales, has previously admitted being a “rotten father”.
He did not see her for three years after his dad died in 1999 and he hit the bottle.
He said: “I was putting away two litres of vodka and seven or eight pints of Stella every day.
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“I drank like that for three years. I was deeply ashamed at what I’d become and I knew the kindest thing I could do for Adele was to make sure she never saw me in that state. I made Oliver Reed look like a teetotaller.”
Mark is said to have desperately tried to patch things up over the years.
She ignored a plea from him in 2013 when he had surgery for bowel cancer, the disease that killed dad John.
Adele, who owns mansions in Sussex and London worth more than £10million, had son Angelo in 2012 with husband Simon Konecki, 44.
Last week she was pictured in New York partying with best pal Jennifer Lawrence in gay bar Pieces.
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