• Adele sang “Happy Birthday” to her boyfriend, Rich Paul, during his 41st birthday.
• The singer and Paul have been together for a year and a half.
• They made their relationship known to the public in July 2021 while watching an NBA game courtside

Adele assisted Rich Paul in celebrating his 41st birthday.

During her Dec. 16 Las Vegas residency performance at Caesar’s Palace, the “Someone Like You” singer sang “Happy Birthday” to her lover of a year and a half.

In a video that @adelesdarling shared on Twitter, the “The 34-year-old singer of “Hello” declared, “Today is my boyfriend’s birthday, and I love him more than life itself. Can we give him a birthday greeting?” She then led the crowd in a passionate performance of the song before ending it with a hearty chuckle. (See the video right here.)

They made their relationship known to the public in July 2021 while watching an NBA game courtside. This was shortly after her divorce from Simon Konecki was declared complete.

The “Rolling in the Deep” singer had high praise for her sports agent partner over the summer. “I’ve never been in love like this,” she told Elle in August. “I’m obsessed with him. I’m just in loooove! I’m happy as I’ll ever be. I might as well be married.”

Adele—who shares 10-year-old son Angelo with Simon—kicked kicked off her 32-date Las Vegas residency in November after delaying it for a year.

“Thank you so much for coming back to me,” the Grammy winner told the crowd at the first show on Nov. 19. “It looks just like I imagined it would, it’s just perfect, thank you.”

And since she kicked off her Las Vegas residency, she’s been surprised by at least one famous face in her audience—fellow songbird Shania Twain.

Adele took to her Instagram Story on Nov. 29 and shared a candid photo of herself performing with the “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” singer watching her from the crowd, wearing a cowboy hat.

“Thank god you had a hat on… I would have self-combusted had I seen it was you,” Adele captioned the photo. “I adore you, I can’t believe you came to my show.”

Shania re-shared the Instagram Story and wrote, “Thank god we didn’t make eye contact, all I can think of is the reaction of all those fans to @adele combusting halfway through the show.”

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