Adele's team are said to be negotiating a deal with Live Nation and Ceasars Palace in a bid to salvage her Las Vegas residency, it has been reported.
Singer Adele, 33, tearfully announced her decision to postpone her residency show dates at the eleventh hour last week in a Instagram video.
Adele, who tearfully FaceTimed fans who had travelled to Sin City for her shows, explained that staff sickness and delivery delays had caused her decision to postpone the shows.
Following the superstar's announcement, there has been speculation Adele's equipment requests could have sparked the delay.
But, now according to TMZ, the singer's boyfriend Rich Paul is said to be involved in negations as Keith Urban was drafted in to replace Adele in March and April.
And, the publication reports that Caesars Palace sources have claimed they're "not sure if they can reach an agreement with Adele" due to a "significant conflict" over "numerous issues" with these how.
Meanwhile, Adele's Weekends With stage set is said to have been removed from the Las Vegas hotel's Colosseum venue.
It's also been claimed that in the month-long run up to the residency, Adele was reportedly unable to complete a full rehearsal.
And, the star is said to have had tearful phonically to Rich Paul as issues with the set continued to mount.
Adele is said to have clashed with designer Esmeralda Devlin over the stage production while her team also wanted an overhaul of the sound a video systems provided.
A source told The Sun: "In spite of the set costing millions to put together, Adele was unhappy with the result, and she made her feelings very clear to Es.
"She was already nervous and the falling-out sent her spiralling into a panic because she was desperate that everything should be perfect."
Adele was reportedly supposed to sing in the middle of one swimming pool while performing the residency shows, but it was claimed she likened the final design to an "old pond" and refused.
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A source said: "When she saw the finished design, she refused to take part."
They added: "Adele described the pool as a ‘baggy old pond’ and refused, point blank, to stand in the middle of it.
"The intention was to fill it with water on the set as she was lifted up on a crane-type mechanism, creating the illusion she was floating on water."
But, Adele blamed staff falling ill with Covid-19 in a video as she told her fans: "Hiya, listen, I'm so sorry but my show ain't ready.
"We've tried absolutely everything that we can to pull it together in time and for it to be good enough for you but we've been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid."
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