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Adele feels the heat but lays on the charm at first Melbourne concert

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Adele wants you to know that although she looks like a glamorous superstar, she's just human – and a bit hot and bothered.

"That's not what I look like in real life," she insisted during her first Melbourne concert on Saturday night, the second last before she concludes her Australian tour on Sunday, again at Melbourne's Etihad Stadium.

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"I don't look like the way you can see me on the screen," the singer said. "These poor f--kers down there (at the front) you can see what I really look like.

"For everyone out there," she said with her special talent for channelling impeccable glamour while appearing disarmingly down to earth, "there's contrast (in the image treatment on the screen), there's so much make-up on."

Australia's steamy nights – even now we're into autumn – have been a point of contention for the English rose during her Australian tour, not to mention those pesky mozzies.

Adelaide had been cold, she said, and she'd never been anywhere as hot as Perth in the world. But she wasn't expecting the weather in Melbourne – usually the butt of jokes to non-Victorians – to be quite so roasting. The mercury reached over 30 during the day.

"I thought Perth and Brisbane was the hottest," Adele said, "but I got here today and I thought 'oh my god, it's so hot!'" she said.

"But in Perth – Perth exposed me because all my make-up dripped off!"

By the time the singer had taken to the stage in Melbourne about 8pm the conditions were perfect, with 75,000-odd fans enjoying the open roof of the stadium with a gentle breeze and a show that included fireworks bursting from the top of the circular stage apparatus in the centre of the arena.