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Adele, Dad Drama: Singer's Estranged Father Pleads for a Reconciliation

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Adele's estranged father is once again talking to the press, pleading with his daughter Adele to forgive him and let him meet his new grandson.

Mark Evans has tried to reach his daughter since the birth of her son in October, even showing up at a record studio where she was, but has been unsuccessful. He's hoping his new pleas will finally reach his daughter and spark a reunion, but Adele was famously mad at him before for talking to the press.

In the new interview with Britain's Daily Mail, he says, "I've left messages on her phone, I've written to her and I've sent her birthday and Christmas cards but it's like I'm dead to her. I'm not interested in her celebrity status or her money, I just want my daughter back and I want to be a proper grandad to the little one."

Evans continues that it's been hurtful to hear about what is happening in his daughter's life, including the speculated name of her son, from second-hand sources.

"Not only did I hear I was going to be a grandad for the first time via the media, I found out the same way that she's calling the baby Angelo James," he shares. "I'd hoped so much that she'd put my late dad's name, John, in there somewhere, but alas it looks as if it is not going to be. I'm not sure why she's chosen James, other than a reference to James Bond, and God alone knows where Angelo has come from. It's very LA, isn't it? If only she'd called him John. That would have meant so much to me -- and to Dad, God bless him. He'd have been so touched."

Evans hopes that he can enjoy being a grandfather before it's too late.

"[I'm] missing out on so many of the joys of being a grandfather," he explains. "Simple pleasures like taking him out for a walk in his buggy along the promenade at Penarth like I used to with Adele, then stop off for an ice cream on the way back. I want to do all the grandad stuff with him ... I just want normality. I want to be like any other grandad."

It'll be a surprise if Adele does reach out. After he talked about her life and his in 2011 to UK's The Sun, she told Vogue she was cutting him out for good.

"There's consequences other than just getting a bit of f---ing money that lasts you half a year," Adele said to the mag in 2012. "It blows my mind. 'I love her so much.' Really? Why are you telling me that through a newspaper? If I ever see him I will spit in his face."

But Evans hopes his daughter reconsiders.

"It's so sad it's come to this, and all over an honest account of my feelings for her," he said. "I've never said a bad word about Adele and I'm absolutely gutted she's cut me out of her life."

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godgivemestrengthheather

Just listen to how he speaks of what she chose to name her baby, and how 'he' is missing out on so much. What an idiot! He can't even get through the interview without spouting off on her choice of baby names?

He's self-centred and egotistical. Just from how he spoke in that interview speaks volumes.

Do what you need to do for yourself and your family, Adele. You're better off without him by the sounds of things.

January 28 2013 at 5:01 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
valerieolafson

did not read whole article but what exactly is it that she wont speak to him for? i had an alcoholic father who when i ended up in a wheelchair at 11 (i have spina bifida walking on crutches gets harder as your getting older and want to keep up) told me i was gonna get secretarial spread, told me its my fault my parents faught all the time , my fault my sister hates me cause i didnt want her at wheelchair sports (she went just not all the time) and told me my mother didnt think i deserved xmas gifts never once stopped my sister from verbally or physically abusing me and my mother well the list goes on and i still tried to have a relationship with them. I dont get along with my mom cause she just doesnt understand what that familys done to me and well my dad cant ask him why he hated me so much cause well he\s passed away almost 7 years! so again what has her dad done thats so terrible?

January 28 2013 at 3:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mag

Adele needs to be more open minded. I'm surprised her mother has not helped her to understand. Alcoholism is not a game. Also, he did her a favor keeping away. To be involved with an alcoholic parent is traumatic. She could look at it that way. Also, her mother, Penny, apparently was dating someone else and got married eventually. That is another reason which might have played a part in the bio dad's estrangement. For Adele to respond such as she did, shows she is hurting too. There should be a meeting of the minds between him and her. He has 30 plus years to make up for the time he missed. She could give him a chance or continue to be in a fog. Her mother should ultimately allow Adele to forgive him.

January 28 2013 at 12:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
starsndots

Dude, you obviously jerked up her life, stop trying to ride the money train now. You just look like a pathetic old fool.

January 28 2013 at 10:55 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
SNOOD LOOOOOSER

Adele needs to grow up...

January 28 2013 at 9:48 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
intel13

he just wants your money.. if he was any kind of a father it would not be like this now...

January 28 2013 at 9:32 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Robert Brooks

I WANT MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!!

January 28 2013 at 9:32 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Suncatcher

You can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives.

January 28 2013 at 7:52 AM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
Mgo113

Adele, darlin" Get a restraining order.

January 28 2013 at 7:27 AM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
Stacey

If he was so concerned about being part of her life, he would have never walked out on it before... Just because she now has a child of her own, doesn't mean the door to reconciliation should be open and certainly not because he thinks this is now the right time to come knocking... And please, questioning what the new parents named their child? And seeminging put out because she didn't name it after his late father? This guy isn't saying anything that would garner any of my sympathy. He made his choice many years ago... It's clear that for now Adelle has made hers.

January 28 2013 at 7:26 AM Report abuse +4 rate up rate down Reply