Adele pregnant: Singer announces she’s expecting first child with boyfriend Simon Konecki

Adele announced Friday that she is expecting her first child.

Rumor has it that Adele is going to be a mom.

The Grammy-winning singer announced Friday that she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Simon Konecki.

“I’m delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together,” the singer, 24, wrote on her website.

“I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time.”
adelebfAdele and Konecki at the Grammy Awards in February. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

The British songstress made her relationship public in January when she was photographed out with Konecki, 38, in London.

Konecki, the CEO of Drop4Drop charity and divorced father, then accompanied Adele to the Grammy Awards in February, where the singer nabbed six trophies for her album “21.”

The “Rolling in the Deep” singer sparked engagement rumors later that month when she was spotted wearing a yellow diamond on her engagement finger at the BRIT awards.

Though she eventually denied the engagement rumors, Adele expressed her desire to have children.

"I really want to be a mum," she told People, adding that her goal was to have three sons by the age of 30. "I better start getting on with it!"

News Source: www.nydailynews.com

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Scientology Played a Part in Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' Split, Source Says

Scientology Played a Part in Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' Split, Source Says

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' marriage may have looked like the picture of perfection from the outside, but insiders say the couples' troubles were nothing new, stemming at least in part from Cruise's commitment to Scientology.

"She was never truly comfortable with the Scientology thing," a source close to Holmes told E! News. "It was something she accepted and put up with for many years because it was important to Tom, and for that reason, important to her. But over the past year, they had started to see things differently, and she was beginning to pull away."

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"It wasn't that she was against Scientology," the source continued. "She wasn't at all. She definitely saw its benefit, but she also didn't want it to be her everything, and for Tom, in some ways, it was. She wanted more freedom to make her own decisions."

But it appears Scientology wasn't the couple's only area of conflict.

Another source, who was close with Holmes when she first started dating the Rock of Ages star, said Holmes' personality changed significantly during their marriage…and not in a good way.

"She gave up everything to be with him," the source said. "When she met him, she stopped seeing all her friends and being the normal girl that she was before. She truly adored him. She was overwhelmed by his fame when he first asked her out. He was a huge movie star and suddenly he was giving her attention, and right from the start he was enamored by her. She couldn't believe her luck. He made her feel like all she needed in her life was him."

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"I saw her a few years into the relationship and she was not the same girl," the source continued. "Everything she had to say was ‘Tom this,' ‘Tom that.' It wasn't like she was in the first flush of love, when you can't stop talking about someone, it was past that point. It was as if he controlled her in a way just because she had barely anyone else in her life but him, and almost no one her own age. She listened to him so much that she didn't have her own opinion on things, it was weird. Maybe it was because she wanted me to believe she had given up her previous life and her friends for some perfect man, but it just didn't seem sincere."

Meanwhile, Holmes and Cruise managed to keep signs of a possible split under wraps—so much so that another source who spent time with Holmes recently said there was no way to tell that her divorce filing was coming.

"From what I have been told, no one on [a recent trip to China] had any idea anything was wrong," the source said. "She was absolutely normal in her demeanor. No one saw any signs at all. Katie seemed happy, upbeat, in a good mood...She was talking about Tom as if everything was normal. There were no red flags at all."

News Source: www.eonline.com

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Katy Perry Admits Her Divorce Needed To Be Acknowledg​ed In New Film

This Sunday's issue of PARADE features (a very star-spangled!) Katy Perry on the cover! The singer opens up about a number of things, including why her divorce to Russell Brand needed to be acknowledged in her new 3-D concert documentary "Katy Perry: Part of Me". She also reacts to Obama's support of same-sex marriage and chats about her new outlook on life.

Her new concert documentary chronicles Perry’s life onstage and off, through all her ups and downs—including her split from Brand after 14 months of marriage. Despite being addressed in the film, the breakup is understandably a sensi–tive subject for Perry. She refers to it only as “the situation”—as in,“I’m very aware that it’s inappropriate to give too much away, and that really the situation is just between two people,” she tells PARADE. When it’s noted that she and Brand have been respectful of each other in the media, she responds cryptically, “The universe will have its way.”

Read on for more highlights from her PARADE interview!

Perry admits her breakup needed to be acknowledged in the film: “I think if people walked out of the theater and that was completely avoided, they would be like, ‘Well, there’s an elephant in the room that’s still there.’ I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows. I wanted to show the complete spectrum.”

Perry’s musical collaborator Bonnie McKee on Perry’s new song “Wide Awake”: “When we wrote ‘Teenage Dream,’ it was really about your first love and how magical that is. I think Russell made her feel that way again, and she felt she hadfound the person she was going to spend the rest of her life with. And whenthat didn’t turn out to be what she’d hoped, it kind of made sense to talk about waking up.”

More on her 3-D concert film "Katy Perry: Part of Me": “There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect. … I’m okay with having bad dance moves. I’m okay with having horrible lower teeth. That’s what makes me me, and for some reason it’s worked out all right.”

On Perry’s reaction to President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage: “I was really happy; I probably went down to West Hollywood and had a shot. I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed. My viewpoint on all these things—equality for women, the choice to love anyone you want—hopefully, we will look back at this moment and think like we do now concerning [other] civil rights issues. We’ll just shake our heads indisbelief, saying, ‘Thank God we’ve evolved.’ That would be my prayer for the future.” '

Perry realizes how fortunate she is to call the United States home: “Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America—especially as a female.”

News Source: www.starpulse.com

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