Adele’s Ex Who Inspired ’21’ Is Reportedly Photographer Alex Sturrock
Adele’s first LP, 19, was released in 2008. At the time they were reportedly together, Sturrock took these photos of the singer for the Guardian while she was doing promotion and touring in America in 2009. Heat says that Adele appointed Alex as her official tour photographer for the US that year.
The mag’s source goes on to state the following:
“He went with her to the States in January and they shared hotel rooms and he was on her tour bus, all the time photographing her [the pictures were released as part of an official tour book that year]. He went to the Grammys with her [in February] when she won her first awards – it was the start of her career kicking off outside the UK and Alex was with her every step of the way. He’s a very normal guy and they’d laugh a lot together, eat junk food and ignore the fact that her career was about to go stratospheric. Adele relied on him a lot, he was her best mate as well as her boyfriend and he was very protective of her. He’d say no one knew her like he did.”
Anyway, if you want to see any of the other artists Sturrock has worked with — such as Lil Wayne, Kreayshawn or Justin Bieber — or simply want some portraits shot, hit him up at his official website.
Warning, though: getting emotionally involved may lead to winning a Grammy or six.