Adele's out of debt by paying off the mortgage

Now Adele, 23, is enjoying the rewards of success by paying off the mortgage on her first flat — which has risen in value since she bought it.

Land registry documents show the star — brought up above a discount store in West Norwood, South London — has cleared the debt on her £380,000 (Dh2.21 million) flat in London's fashionable Notting Hill, which she bought in 2009.

Tottenham-born Adele, who last week won two more Brit awards to go with her record-breaking six Grammys, has now set up home with her old Etonian boyfriend Simon Konecki, 36, in a £7 million ten-bedroom mansion in Sussex.