I tend to agree with others that the “audience with” format is hugely self-indulgent and embarrassing. It was basically just a big promo event for her record company - may well have been paid for by them too, IDK. I also doubt that all those celebs turned up for free. Plus the “surprise” (

) teacher thing. It was just a massive group bum-lick.
And Emma Thompson was a complete
bleeping embarrassment - as usual, she is a huge sycophant. Even her husband looked mortified by her (and he danced to the Macarena very badly on Strictly, so you’d think his embarrassment threshold would be pretty high).
As for Adele - I wouldn’t be too surprised if her next career move is a year-long residency in Las Vegas (huge amounts of money, just singing the classics to punters eating their dinner).
p.s. I acknowledge I’m a bit of a miseryguts.