Adele reacts to winning an Emmy: “Trust me to officially have an EGO”

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Adele has shared her reaction after winning a Creative Arts Emmy Award over the weekend for her recent One Night Only show.The US TV concert special aired last November, and saw the star perform tracks from her album ’30’ at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles while also being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey.It won five awards, including Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), meaning Adele is now one step closer to EGOT status – more specifically a small handful of people who have won the four major Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.

Adele already has 15 Grammys, and won the Best Original Song Oscar for ‘Skyfall’.Posing with her statuette, Adele wrote on Instagram: “Bloody hell I’m pleased as punch!

Thank you @mrbenwinston for dropping this round to me this afternoon!! Trust me to officially have an EGO [cry laughing emoji].A post shared by Adele (@adele)“Thank you so much @televisionacad , I’m so so honored to receive this.

Big up to everyone involved. @griffithobservatory thank you for letting me sing up on your mountain and big love to all the other nominees x”.Other winners at the Creative Arts Emmys – which comes ahead of the main Primetime Emmys ceremony next weekend – included The Beatles for Peter Jackson’s Disney+ docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, which took home five awards.The Superbowl Halftime Show earlier this year, which included Eminem, Dr.