Adele, Dad Drama: Singer's Estranged Father Pleads for a Reconciliation

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Adele's estranged father is once again talking to the press, pleading with his daughter Adele to forgive him and let him meet his new grandson.

Mark Evans has tried to reach his daughter since the birth of her son in October, even showing up at a record studio where she was, but has been unsuccessful. He's hoping his new pleas will finally reach his daughter and spark a reunion, but Adele was famously mad at him before for talking to the press.

In the new interview with Britain's Daily Mail, he says, "I've left messages on her phone, I've written to her and I've sent her birthday and Christmas cards but it's like I'm dead to her. I'm not interested in her celebrity status or her money, I just want my daughter back and I want to be a proper grandad to the little one."

Evans continues that it's been hurtful to hear about what is happening in his daughter's life, including the speculated name of her son, from second-hand sources.

"Not only did I hear I was going to be a grandad for the first time via the media, I found out the same way that she's calling the baby Angelo James," he shares. "I'd hoped so much that she'd put my late dad's name, John, in there somewhere, but alas it looks as if it is not going to be. I'm not sure why she's chosen James, other than a reference to James Bond, and God alone knows where ! Angelo has come from. It's very LA, isn't it? If only she'd called him John. That would have meant so much to me -- and to Dad, God bless him. He'd have been so touched."

Evans hopes that he can enjoy being a grandfather before it's too late.

"[I'm] missing out on so many of the joys of being a grandfather," he explains. "Simple pleasures like taking him out for a walk in his buggy along the promenade at Penarth like I used to with Adele, then stop off for an ice cream on the way back. I want to do all the grandad stuff with him ... I just want normality. I want to be like any other grandad."

It'll be a surprise if Adele does reach out. After he talked about her life and his in 2011 to UK's The Sun, she told Vogue she was cutting him out for good.

"There's consequences other than just getting a bit of f---ing money that lasts you half a year," Adele said to the mag in 2012. "It blows my mind. 'I love her so much.' Really? Why are you telling me that through a newspaper? If I ever see him I will spit in his face."

But Evans hopes his daughter reconsiders.

"It's so sad it's come to this, and all over an honest account of my feelings for her," he said. "I've never said a bad word about Adele and I'm absolutely gutted she's cut me out of her life."

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