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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.
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"They're all trying to kill me," screams the British songstress, when she is attacked by a scourge of mosquitoes during her Brisbane concert ... to the crowd's delight.
"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.
Adele, performing at Etihad Stadium, felt compelled to point out her big-screen image had some flattering filters on it. Photo: Getty Images
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.