While Adele takes centre stage at the Oscars next month to perform Bond theme \u2018Skyfall\u2019, back at his South Wales home part-time plumber dad Mark Evans has revealed that it will be too painful to watch his daughter on stage.<\/p>\n
Instead he will go to bed and make do – as he has done with news of her pregnancy and the recent birth of her first child – with reading about his daughter\u2019s success in the next day\u2019s papers after being cut out of Adele\u2019s life following a family rift in 2011.<\/p>\n
In spite of repeated phone calls, letters and even an attempt to contact Adele by turning up at her record company offices in London, Evans said that his efforts to repair the rift have been stonewalled.
\nNow, after exhausting every other avenue, the 49-year-old says he is speaking publicly, simply to appeal to his daughter to get in touch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve left messages on her phone, I\u2019ve written to her and I\u2019ve sent her birthday and Christmas cards but it\u2019s like I\u2019m dead to her,\u201d he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
He said that he is not interested in her celebrity status or her money. He just wants his daughter back, and wants to be a proper granddad to the little one.<\/p>\n
Evans, who became a grandfather for the first time when Adele gave birth in October, added that not only did he hear he was going to be a granddad for the first time via the media, he found out the same way that she\u2019s calling the baby Angelo James.<\/p>\n
He had hoped that she\u2019d put his late dad\u2019s name, John, in there somewhere, but it looks as if it is not going to be.<\/p>\n
If only she\u2019d called him John, that would have meant so much to him – and to his dad, he said.
\nHe said that he thinks of his dad when he sees Adele on television now, and says his father would have loved to have seen her succeed..\u2019<\/p>\n
Evans said that the current situation meant he was \u201cmissing out on so many of the joys of being a grandfather.\u201d Simple pleasures like taking the kid out for a walk in his buggy along the promenade at Penarth like he used to with Adele, then stop off for an ice cream on the way back, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to do all the grandad stuff with him – feed the ducks in park, skim pebbles in the sea, splash around in the surf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then there\u2019s all the music we could listen to together. I\u2019d play him my old blues records and sing him lullabies to help him close his eyes at bedtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want normality. I want to be like any other grandad. I\u2019ve got mates who I see with their grandchildren and I can\u2019t bear to watch. It shows me what I\u2019m missing out on,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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