Exactly 10 years ago today, a nervous 22-year-old Adele took to the stage of the BRIT Awards and delivered her debut performance of 'Someone Like You' which would change her life forever.
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By Mark Savage
image captionCeleste won the BBC s Sound Of 2020 and the Brits Rising Star award last year
Celeste has become the first British female artist to top the chart with their debut album since 2015.
The singer beat competition from rapper Fredo and indie songwriter Arlo Parks to reach number one with her sumptuous, soulful record Not My Muse.
Earlier this week, she received a a Golden Globe nomination for Hear My Voice, which features in the Aaron Sorkin film The Trial Of The Chicago 7. This has done the world of good for me, said the Brighton-based singer.
Hoda Kotb doesn t know when her postponed wedding will actually take place, but she does know what song she wants for her first dance with fiancé Joel Schiffman. I love Van Morrison s Someone Like You, Kotb told Jenna Bush Hager on Wednesday morning s episode of
Today. That is such a beautiful, beautiful song. I think that ll be our wedding song.
The couple s Mexico wedding was most recently scheduled for November 2020, but they postponed it indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Kotb, their plans to say I do remain up in the air. I don t know, she told Hager. We can t fly anywhere, what are we supposed do? It was supposed to be last November. Maybe this November coming up, that s it. Put it on the calendar.