Adele lights up Glastonbury's Pyramid stage as she overcomes nerves for triumphant set

'I've wanted to do this my whole life but I've been too scared!' Adele lights up Glastonbury's Pyramid stage as she overcomes nerves for triumphant set

By JOANNA CRAWLEY FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 23:15, 25 June 2016 | UPDATED: 00:27, 26 June 2016

She once said her music would never work at a festival.

But Adele proved herself wrong on Saturday night, drawing a crowd of thousands to Glastonbury's famous Pyramid Stage for her headline slot at the 2016 festival.

The Hello singer dressed to impress for her big moment in a stunning sequin gown, showing little sign of the nerves which have previously stopped her from agreeing to a performance at the world famous festival.

Rolling in the mud! Adele drew a crowd of thousands to Glastonbury's famous Pyramid Stage for her headline slot at the 2016 festival on Saturday night

The singer chose a dazzling dress for her big night, with the gown studded in sequins and featuring dramatic winged sleeves. 

Playing to a crowd stretching back as far as the eye could see, the chart-topping star opened with her smash hit Hello, the lead single from her latest record breaking album 25.  

The star changed one of the lyrics to say 'I've been Glastonbury dreaming,' prompting a huge cheer from the crowd.

Heartwarming moment Adele brings up young girl fan on stage

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Stunning: The singer chose a dazzling dress for her big night, with the gown studded in sequins and featuring dramatic winged sleeves

Hello, is anyone there? Playing to a crowd stretching back as far as the eye could see, the chart-topping star opened with her smash hit Hello, the lead single from her latest record breaking album 25

Glam: The singer dressed to impress for her big moment in a stunning sequin gown

She told her fans they looked 'amazing', before emotionally admitting to the thousands who had turned out to see her: 'Oh my God, this is the best moment of my life. Glastonbury means the world to me, I'm not even lying. I've always wanted to do this my whole life but I've been too scared.'

She then pointed out a young girl in the crowd and told her she'd been coming to the festival 'since I was your age' and invited her on stage for an impromptu selfie.

The star has previously declined to play at Glastonbury because of her fear of performing in front of large crowds.

In 2011 she told Q magazine: ''I have anxiety attacks, constant panicking on stage, my heart feels like it’s going to explode because I never feel like I’m going to deliver, ever.

What a moment: The superstar pointed out a young girl in the crowd and told her she'd been coming to the festival 'since I was your age' and invited her on stage for an impromptu selfie

A moment to remember: Adele's new pal could barely contain her excitement as she was invited on stage

She's done it! The star showed little sign of the nerves which have previously stopped her from agreeing to a performance at the world famous festival

'I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

'I don't think the music would work either. It's all too slow.I’d hate to book a festival and have a f****** anxiety attack and then not go on stage.'  

According to The Sun newspaper, Adele's manager Jonathan Dickins was overheard telling a pal ahead of the 28-year-old's set: 'She's nervous. She hasn't got here yet. I think anyone would be nervous playing in front of that crowd. I'm nervous myself. I've got a twinge!'  

Party time! The star proved her critics, and herself wrong, with her electrifying atmosphere 

Finally made it: The star has previously declined to play at Glastonbury because of her fear of performing in front of large crowds

What a welcome: In 2011 she told Q magazine: 'I have anxiety attacks, constant panicking on stage, my heart feels like it’s going to explode because I never feel like I’m going to deliver, ever'

'Best moment of my life': The star became emotional as she thanked the 'amazing crowd'

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Adele's mother is camping at Glastonbury.

The 'Hello' hitmaker's mum Penny Adkins has been put up in the luxury Green Fields campsite, because she insisted on experiencing the music extravaganza 'in full' and wanted to be close to the action.

A source told Mirror Celeb: 'Penny loves a party just as much as Adele and she wouldn't miss her headlining Glastonbury for the world. She wants the full experience and is camping in the Green Fields with some of the staff.'

Not on her own: Adele was backed by an orchestra and singers for her epic set

What nerves? Despite being vocal about her battles with stage fright, the star's practice with her world tour seems to have worked wonders for her nerves

Sing it back: There was plenty of interaction with the audience as they sang along to her catalogue of hits 

Drama: The star got into the spirit of the festival with her epic collection of smash hits

Penny could easily have opted to stay with her daughter in a five-star hotel off-site and sleep in a comfy bed, but the enthusiastic mum wanted to get stuck in and mingle with the fans who have flocked to the site this weekend.

The source added: 'She always supports Adele at her gigs but this is going to be a special night for her watching her daughter headline the Pyramid Stage.

'Penny is very laid back and even though she could have been put up in a house nearby she chose to really get involved.'

Happy to be here! The star laughed and joked with the crowd of thousands

Atmosphere: All eyes were on her as she hit the world famous stage

Someone like you! Adele belted out her love and heartbreak classics 

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Jennifer Lawrence says she wants body image in Hollywood to change as she poses topless for magazine shoot

JENNIFER LAWRENCE: TRUTH AND BEAUTY

Armed with an Oscar, an independent spirit, and sheer self-confidence, the actress is as powerful a voice as she is a star​.

By Laura Brown and Photographs by Mario Sorrenti; Fashion Editor: Alastair McKimm

Apr 7, 2016

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It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Jennifer Lawrence is the mayor of New York's Greenwich Hotel. Sure, Robert De Niro owns it, but Lawrence owns it. Sitting on a corner couch, with her tiny dog, Pippi, running around the room, she is as at home as is possible when you're an Oscar-winning movie star orbited by guests at a Manhattan hotel.

As is now legend, Lawrence is a talker. "I was thinking we should start in silence," I say, presenting her with the challenge of a lifetime. "No!" she yelps. "That would make me want to talk more than anything. All of a sudden a million words would flood into my head." She looks genuinely panicked.

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Lawrence is in town for a few days before heading to Montreal to finish shooting X-Men: Apocalypse, out this month. She tries to be a low-key presence in New York, but the city finds her anyway. A couple of nights earlier, on Valentine's Day, she went out for dinner in Brooklyn with her friend comic Aziz Ansari. Lawrence's dinners—Adele! Emma Stone!—and friends—Amy Schumer! Lena Dunham!—are manna for media heaven, but this one was special order. According to breathless tabloid reports, Lawrence ate a "sandwich dipped in ketchup." ("Um, a sandwich dipped in ketchup is a cheeseburger," she observes.) "It was the one night I could see Aziz. For Valentine's he got me a stuffed animal, and I got him a 'That's So Raven' Valentine's Day card."

That, it would seem, is the extent of Lawrence's "romantic" life at present. However, ask if she's having a frisson with anyone and she goes pink, and is suddenly, strugglingly, silent. "There's frisson all over my face," she jokes. "I can't! Anything I say about boys gets picked up." She will admit that she doesn't have a type. "I don't think so because patterns are the work of the devil." She lets out her bellowing laugh. "If I think about all of my ex-boyfriends, they are all so uncomparable." Lawrence has been single for a while, although from her demeanor perhaps this will be short-lived. But as of now: "Sex? Someone explain to me what it is."

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Lawrence doesn't need anything explained to her—she is at the peak of her powers. Her confidence is palpable, her conversation both bantering and impatient. You can understand why her friends are so famed, such ballers, because to be Lawrence's friend, balls are a requirement. "I can feel people sometimes are intimidated by me, but I try to do the best I can to offset that," she says. "There is zero reason to be intimidated by me. At all. But I also understand it."

Lawrence's outspokenness reached a crescendo with her essay for Lena Dunham's Lennynewsletter last year about equal pay in Hollywood. "I had no idea it was going to blow up like that," she recalls. "And I obviously only absorbed the negative. I didn't pay any attention to the positive feedback. My parents get really upset. They do not like me speaking out about anything political because it's hard to see your kid take criticism. But, really, people who criticized it are people who think women should not be paid the same as men. So I don't really care what those people think." At the Golden Globes, host Ricky Gervais cracked, "Jennifer Lawrence … demanded equal pay for women in Hollywood, and she received overwhelming support from people everywhere. There were marches … with nurses and factory workers saying, 'How the hell can a 25-year-old live on 52 million?' " The camera switched to Lawrence laughing appropriately. "I try not to be too sensitive to the 'poor rich girl' jokes," she explains. "I was saying my reality is absolutely fabulous, but it is not the reality of a lot of women in America. That's what I'm talking about."

"There is zero reason to be intimidated by me. At all. But I also understand it."

Lawrence wrote in Lenny, "I'm over trying to find the 'adorable' way to state my opinion and still be likable." That said, she doesn't think being a pleaser equals being weak. "There's nothing wrong with being a pleaser if you're smart about it," she says. "As long as you're getting what's fair. You know, I want my employers to be happy. I want to please anyone I'm working for as long as they pay me the appropriate amount. I'll make them as happy as they want."

On feminism, she argues, "I don't know why that word is so scary to people; it shouldn't be, because it just means equality. If we are moving forward in a society, you are feeling stronger as a woman, and you want to be taken more seriously. You don't have to take away the wonderful traits that come with being a woman: We are sensitive. We are pleasers. We're empathetic. All those things that can keep you from asking for what you want or making mistakes."

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Lawrence will readily admit to making a mistake or two, although her stories have more of a bawdy, good-time flavor. Everyone, you see, wants to hang out with J.Law. In what ways, though, is she a social disappointment? "Ha! That's good." She grins. "I don't really stay out late. I'm kind of a bummer. I'm a nana. It's hard to get me out, and when I do go out I don't really stay out late. If I do stay out late and I'm partying hard, I will throw up. I don't have the tolerance to black out; I just start puking."

By way of a witness, she adds, "Ask Emma Stone. It was the night we saw Adele in L.A. She just started rubbing my back. She was really sweet. I was like, 'Get out of here. It's so gross.' " Add to that party compadre Woody Harrelson. "Woody cut his foot. He stayed over in one of my guest bedrooms, but that's where I started puking. I broke a candle because I can't just puke like a normal person—I flay my arms everywhere. And I didn't clean it up because I'm an asshole. The next day he cut his foot open. I was like, 'Fuck, am I going to get sued?' And he's like, 'Are you going to ask if I'm okay?' " She demurely sips her tea. "That night got crazy." I suggest that the next time Lawrence embraces the porcelain, Adele should be in the corner singing as a distraction. "Yeah!" She laughs. "She would be totally up for it."

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Lawrence has a technical term for such behavior: "Mis-drinking. Mixing 'time with Woody' [insert wink] with time at the bar." She shakes her head. "And I'd gone so long without making a mistake."

Even though she is a huge, megaton celebrity, Lawrence says she makes new friends easily. "Yeah, I do, which is actually surprising. There were a few years where I had to get used to everything, but now I am. I don't have to be wary of people; it's fine."

A typical day for Lawrence when she's not working entails the following: "Wake up. I take Pippi on a running hike. I'll probably do Pilates or something. Then I'll hang out with a friend to count down the hours of my wasteful life. Then I watch TV, and then I'll go to bed. There's my day." What makes her laugh? "The Onion headlines. Get me every time. The last one that made me laugh was 'Ugly Girl Killed.' "

"I think we've gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal weight it's like, 'Oh, my God, she's curvy.'"

Thankfully for her survival on an Onion-ruled earth, Lawrence has become a real beauty. She has eased into a streamlined style—trousers and heels for day, and clean, feminine pieces for the red carpet. "I think I started paying attention to fashion as soon as paparazzi started happening a few years ago," she recalls. "I was not ready. I was like, 'What do I wear?' I had to start paying attention. When I turned 25 it got easier because I know, 'This is you, this is not you.' " The last thing Lawrence bought for herself was a "pair of earrings. I don't have a boyfriend, so I have to do that shit on my own."

A great aid to her fashion ascension has been Lawrence's relationship with Dior. "I could not believe it when they signed me [to be in their campaigns]," she says. "They fly me to Paris and get me hotel rooms, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me? You don't have to be so nice!' " She adds, as an aside, "I couldn't renew my contract quickly enough."

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On the red carpet, Lawrence has been a veritable Dior show, her most successful looks being, like Lawrence herself, bold and no-frills. Like the red cutout gown she wore to the Golden Globes in January. "That was my plan-B dress," she says. "Plan A was a dress that I couldn't wear because awards season is synced with my menstrual cycle, and it has been for years." The red won because "it was loose at the front. And I didn't have to worry about sucking anything in. The other dress was really tight, and I'm not going to suck in my uterus. I don't have to do that."

Aesthetics are also an element of the film industry that Lawrence would like to change. "I would like us to make a new normal-body type," she says. "Everybody says, 'We love that there is somebody with a normal body!' And I'm like, 'I don't feel like I have a normal body.' I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person. I think we've gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal weight it's like, 'Oh, my God, she's curvy.' Which is crazy. The bare minimum, just for me, would be to up the ante." That earthy laugh returns. "At least so I don't feel like the fattest one."

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'I don't want to feel like the fattest one': Jennifer Lawrence says she wants body image in Hollywood to change as she poses topless for magazine shoot

By SHYAM DODGE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 18:51, 7 April 2016 | UPDATED: 19:45, 7 April 2016

Jennifer Lawrence says she doesn't want to 'feel like the fattest' actress working in Hollywood.

The 25-year-old admitted, during an interview with Harper's Bazaar, that she doesn't believe she represents a normal American woman's body type despite being viewed as 'curvy' in showbusiness. 

'I would like us to make a new normal-body type,' the star said. 'Everybody says, "We love that there is somebody with a normal body!" And I'm like, "I don't feel like I have a normal body." 

Not keepng quiet: Jennifer Lawrence admitted she doesn't want to 'feel like the fattest' actress working in Hollywood in a new interview with Harper's Bazaar

'I do Pilates every day. I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person,' she explained.

'I think we've gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal weight it's like, "Oh, my God, she's curvy." Which is crazy. The bare minimum, just for me, would be to up the ante. At least so I don't feel like the fattest one.'

She also talked about the response to her gender equality essay published last year: '[P]eople who criticized it are people who think women should not be paid the same as men. So I don’t really care what those people think…I try not to be too sensitive to the "poor rich girl" jokes. I was saying my reality is absolutely fabulous, but it is not the reality of a lot of women in America. That’s what I’m talking about.' 

 'I would like us to make a new normal-body type,' the star said. 'Everybody says, "We love that there is somebody with a normal body!" And I'm like, "I don't feel like I have a normal body."

'I think we've gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal weight it's like, "Oh, my God, she's curvy." Which is crazy. The bare minimum, just for me, would be to up the ante. At least so I don't feel like the fattest one.'

Meanwhile, JLaw also revealed she learned the hard way that her pal Emma Stone is a girlfriend for life after she spent the night vomiting following an Adele concert.

The Joy star recalled her night of hard partying during an interview with Harper's Bazaar as she admitted to being a bit of a lightweight. 

JLaw said she got up to some antics at Adele's show, revealing: 'I don't really stay out late. I'm kind of a bummer.

'Ask Emma Stone!' JLaw revealed her pal spent the night rubbing her back as she vomited after an Adele concert (Pictured in November in NYC)

JLaw said she got up to some antics at Adele's show, revealing: 'I don't really stay out late. I'm kind of a bummer' (Adele seen in concert last month in Manchester)

'I'm a nana. It's hard to get me out, and when I do go out I don't really stay out late. If I do stay out late and I'm partying hard, I will throw up. I don't have the tolerance to black out; I just start puking.'

'Ask Emma Stone,' she said. 'It was the night we saw Adele in L.A. She just started rubbing my back. She was really sweet. I was like, "Get out of here. It's so gross".'

She also revealed that Woody Harrelson was staying in her guest room at the time and stepped on a piece of glass she failed to clean up after breaking a candle during her fit of vomiting. 

'That night got crazy,' she concluded.

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• Jennifer Lawrence Harpers Bazaar Interview - Jennifer Lawrence Talks X Men, the Wage Gap In Hollywood and Body Issues

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