Who IS the ex that Adele just can't get over? As the singer hints she is still heartbroken in lyrics from her third album, her love torment with revealed
- Adele teased 30-second clip of her first song in four years on Sunday
- Lyrics expose 27-year-old's hurt as she sings, 'I ain't done much healing'
- Sources allege that the man in question is her ex Alex Sturrock
Adele has stoked rumours that she still struggling to get over her ex-boyfriend as she continues to pour out her heartbreak in new song lyrics.
The 27-year-old London-born singer catapulted back into the limelight on Sunday night when she teased a 30-second video featuring a new ballad from her highly anticipated third album - rumoured to be called 25 - during The X Factor commercial break.
The deeply private songstress hinted in the eerie-sounding preview that she is finding it difficult to move on from a relationship and that she 'ain't done much healing'.
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Adele catapulted back into the limelight on Sunday night when she teased a 30-second video featuring a new ballad from her highly anticipated third album - rumoured to be called 25 - during The X Factor commercial break, pictured in 2013
The deeply private songstress hinted in the eerie-sounding preview that she is finding it difficult to move on from a relationship and that she 'ain't done much healing', pictured in 2013
Warbling in an emotion-filled voice on the preview of the track, the Grammy-award winning Adele sang: 'Hello. It's me. I was wondering if, after all these years you'd like to meet to go over everything. They say that time's supposed to heal you, but I ain't done much healing.'
Industry insiders told The Sun newspaper that the much-anticipated ballad is a sequel to her BRIT Award-winning ballad, Someone Like You.
The tabloid reports that Adele's lyrics are believed to relate to meetings she had with a former love, who she wrote much of her second album 21 - which was released in 2011 - about.
While it has never been revealed who put her through so much emotional strife, media reports have previously named fashion photographer Alex Sturrock, 34.
Adele has been dating Simon Konecki, a 41-year-old Old Etonian and charity worker at Drop4Drop, since 2011. The pair have a three-year-old son called Angelo, pictured together in 2012
Music industry insiders told The Sun that the much-anticipated ballad is a sequel to her BRIT Award-winning ballad, Someone Like You, pictured at the awards in 2012
On his text-sparse website, Alex states that he has worked with brands such as Nike, JD Sports, Sony, American Apparel, Vice and NME. There is a section of candid snaps of Adele on her US tour with images of her smoking in bed, sitting next to an 'I love you' balloon and with heart-shaped stickers all over her face.
Heat first linked the pair back in 2012 with an unnamed close friend claiming the couple had dated in secret from summer 2008 to April 2009. The source said they 'hit it off straight away' and 'spent all their time together', with the photographer joining Adele on her US tour in 2009.
The friend told the celebrity magazine: 'He’s a very normal guy and they’d laugh a lot together, eat junk food and ignore the fact that her career was about to go stratospheric.'
They are said to have avoided 'doing things as a couple' and being photographed together.
Describing the relationship as 'volatile', the pal claimed they went their separate ways after Mr Sturrock started seeing someone else.
Adele was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2013, which was presented to her by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace, London
Around this time, The Sunday Mirror linked Tottenham-born Adele to part-time DJ Ned Biggs, while The New York Post named musician and actor named Slinky Sunbeam as the mystery ex behind Rolling in the Deep.
Adele previously told The Guardian that she will never reveal the identity of the man behind her wounded love songs: 'Who cares? Nobody famous, just old boyfriends. I don't date celebrities. I ain't f****** Taylor Swift, dyouknowhatImean?'
However, while keeping the man anonymous, Adele has been publicly unabashed about hiding her feelings towards him.
In 2011 she spoke of her regret over their romance breakdown: 'I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for not making my relationship with my ex on 21 work, because he's the love of my life.'
Adele holds the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance for her song, Set Fire To The Rain at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in 2013
Viewers took to Twitter to express their excitement after hearing a snippet of the song accompanied by lyrics on a black screen. It began: 'Hello/It's me/I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet'
The Grammy award-winning singer has not released her own music since October 2012 when she made a comeback with James Bond theme tune Skyfall, which won her an Academy Award
The lyrics on the black screen continued: 'They say that time's supposed to heal ya/But I ain't done much healing...'
Adele has been dating Simon Konecki, a 41-year-old Old Etonian and charity worker at Drop4Drop, since 2011. The pair have a three-year-old son called Angelo.
The new lyrics have put a spotlight on their relationship with a source telling The Sun newspaper: 'She's written a sequel to Someone Like You, which is what everyone has wanted but no one believed she would do because she's in a long-term relationship with a man who she has a child with.'
The source added the 'whole process is clearly going to be very difficult for Simon'.
In 2012 Adele - who has an estimated worth of £50 million - gushed about her 'wonderful' partner Mr Konecki, telling Vogue: 'He's proud of me, but he don't care about what I do or what other people think. He looks after me.'
When asked if there is a limit on how honest she can be in her songs and what emotions she decides to put out to the public, she told Clash Music: 'I dunno, because sometimes I’m like, "No, I like being honest", and sometimes I’m like, "I wish I hadn’t written that", so I really don’t know.
It has widely been rumoured that Adele's new album is due out next month but no official announcement has been made
In August it was reported that she had been working on new music with the likes of OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, who produced and co-wrote Rumour Has It on 21
Reaction: Fans were whipped into a frenzy on Twitter, tweeting their excitement after hearing the short clip
'I think it just depends on my mood. Sometimes I don’t want anyone knowing any of my business, and other times I’m like, "Maybe I’ll just say it how it is".'
But remaining defiant on the inspiration behind her music, she told Vogue that the mystery man has had 'the biggest impact' on her and has changed her life.
'I can do things that I never dreamed I’d be able to do,' she said. 'If I hadn’t met him, I think I’d still be that little girl I was when I was eighteen. And the best thing is, I now know what I want for myself and from someone else. I didn’t know what I wanted before.'
Adele told Vogue that the mystery man has had 'the biggest impact' on her and has changed her life, pictured in 2013
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