BEYONCE: TWINS ON TOUR Concert backlash leaves Adele in tears
The Carter family are hitting the road to support Jay Z She’s devastated, as fans take their anger out on her
It’s just two weeks since Beyoncé brought her twins home from the hospital to their new $54m rental house in Malibu, but heat can reveal she’s already making plans to leave and follow husband Jay Z on tour to promote his new album 4:44. Naturally, the newborns – whoare called Rumi and Sir, and whose names have already been trademarked – are coming, too.
“Beyoncé really wants to get on the road with Jay,” a friend of the couple tells heat. “They’re so close, and crazy for their new babies right now. Bey can’t bear the thought of being apart from him, and Jay feels the same way.”
Jay, 47, has several concerts booked in for the US and UK, including August’s V Festival, which means Beyoncé, 35, daughter Blue Ivy, five, and the twins can experience the sights of both Staffordshire and Essex. “Playing live is where Jay rakes in the money – on the last tour, he and Bey made over $100m. When you generate that kind of profit, you can spend what you like, so they’re planning to rent out an entire floor at every hotel they stay at,” says the friend. “Beyoncé has already hired six nannies, so they’ll be bringing them.” The insider adds that the family will also have a private chef, personal trainer and private gym travelling with them, as the couple “wouldn’t be seen dead” in a hotel gym.
Last week, heat reported that Bey and Jay had moved a medical team into their Malibu mansion to care for the twins, and the source says they’ll be hitting the road, too. “The twins are so cute – they’re not identical, but they look a lot alike,” says the friend. “They’re already calling Rumi ‘Ru’ for short and it really suits her. They chose the name Rumi after their favourite poet.” That’ll be 13th-century Persian poet Jalaluddin al-rumi –and Sir’s name is reportedly taken from a line in his work, too.
The insider adds, “As well as the hired help, they’ve also asked Bey’s mum, Tina, to go with them. She went on most of their last tour and really enjoyed herself. It’s going to be a big family vacation.”
She can normally do no wrong in the eyes of her fans, but for the first time in her career, Adele found herself facing a huge backlash after she was forced to cancel two of her concerts last minute. And insiders have told heat how the 29 year old was left in tears as disappointed concert-goers aimed their anger at her, after she pulled out of her final two Wembley dates.
“It was such a tough decision and Adele was absolutely devastated by it,” our source says. “The last thing she wanted to do was upset her loyal fans. And when she saw the tweets and messages criticising her, she started crying. She knew people would be disappointed, but she didn’t expect this.”
Adele had been due to perform at Wembley on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July, to close her 15-month, 123-date world tour in style. But hours before, she posted a heartfelt statement saying she had to cancel upon medical advice after damaging her vocal chords.
Although she promised fans refunds if the concerts weren’t rescheduled, many weren’t impressed. One fumed, “Thanks @Adele. What about the hotel and travel I have paid for. Disgusting”, while another wrote: “Great job @Adele! It’s not easy to anger 200,000 people, but not for you!” Fans also questioned her decision to add extra dates to the London leg of her tour, branding it “greedy”, as it meant she had already played two shows before Saturday’s gig, putting extra pressure on her voice.
Adele, who underwent vocal chord surgery in 2011, hinted the Wembley concerts would be her last for a while, as she wants a break from the spotlight to concentrate on life with her husband Simon Konecki and their four-year-old son Angelo.
However, she is determined to do right by her fans. “Adele isn’t sure when she’ll be able to sing again and whether it’s feasible for her to do new shows at Wembley,” our source adds. “This will take her a long time to get over, as she’s not known criticism like this before. But, somehow, she will make it up to them.” n KATE RANDALL