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Adele dressed as an Adele impersonator, and managed to fool other Adele impersonators

Say ‘Adele’ again. Adele.

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LAST NIGHT, ADELE performed tracks from her new album 25 in a one-hour BBC special, hosted by Graham Norton.

In between songs, the singer chatted to Graham about her life and career, and played a prank on some of her biggest fans.

She went along to an audition for Adele impersonators, wearing a prosthetic nose and chin and calling herself ‘Jenny’.

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Adele played Jenny as a nervous wreck, and faked missing her cue for To Make You Feel My Love.  But then she actually started singing, and…

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As the impersonators slowly started twigging that it was the real Adele up there, the prank soon turned from funny to genuinely moving.

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Adele. QUEEN.

Written by Valerie Loftus and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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