Slinky Winfield a.k.a. Slinky Sunbeam Inspired Adele’s 21 Album?
February 16, 2012 by Hollywoodite
It would appear the ex-boyfriend who inspired Adele’s 21 album, for which she won all six awards nominated at the 2012 Grammys, has been named. According to The New York Post, the man in question is an “open secret,” British actor and singer Slinky Winfield, 25, who also goes by the stage name Slinky Sunbeam (incidentally, Adele’s current boyfriend, banker-turned-charity-CEO Simon Konecki, 36, is nicknamed “Swampy”).
For her Vogue March 2012 interview, Adele leaves Slinky Sunbeam unnamed but finally credits him with the success of 21. Adele did the same in her 60 Minutes interview, during which she noted he got engaged VERY soon after their split, leaving her heartbroken. And now NYP’s sources have more details in what’s stretched to a two-page report; including the admission that, yes, the relationship ended because of another woman.
He’s a musician and actor who goes by the [stage] name Slinky Sunbeam and hails from the [British] seaside town of Margate. Also known as Slinky Winfield, the 25-year-old became Adele’s lover after she was famous, introduced through her close-knit circle of art-loving friends in South London.
“Adele likes to keep part of her life back for herself, but it’s an open secret that Slinky was the guy who inspired 21,” a friend of the singer tells The Post. “He’s a seriously good-looking guy. He has a great body and likes to wear vests to show it off. And he has this crazy hair which reminds me of Jimi Hendrix; it’s really wild and untamed.”
“It’s easy to see what attracted Adele to him,” the friend adds. “He’s a really popular guy, the life and soul of the party, and he’s a musician as well. But while Adele has the knack for writing songs which the whole world can tap into, Slinky’s material is more underground and kind of art-school trendy.”
Adele claims that the couple simply “grew apart,” but friends say the real catalyst was Slinky developing a relationship with Burberry model Morwenna Lytton Cobbold. “Slinky isn’t the kind of guy you can tie down,” the friend says. “It was always going to end in tears, and those tears were always going to be Adele’s.”
Despite Adele’s assertion last year that she would “do anything” to rekindle the relationship, their affair was surprisingly informal. “They never lived together, and I can’t really recall Slinky ever describing Adele as his girlfriend,” says the friend. – via The New York Post.
Side note: The guy who inspired the 19 album is still unidentified. The 19 and 21 albums were written about two different men; the former is, as yet, unnamed but tabloids claim he demanded royalties for inspiring 19; the latter of whom was named this week as Slinky Sunbeam.
Below are photos from the @SlinkyWinfield Twitter and videos from the YouTube.com/SlinkySunbeam account (the Facebook.com/SlinkyWinfield account wouldn’t load at the time of posting).
** UPDATE: The NYP’s source is lying; Adele and SS never dated. From Adele’s blog dated 2008: “People keep saying i am/was/ seeing slinky sunbeam! im not and never have done. whoever this “source” is, theyre talking out their [butt]. he aint my type!thanks for your kind messages to comfort me being dumped by slinky.” Thank you AdeleFanArt on Twitter for the correction!
PHOTO CREDIT – SLINKY WINFIELD’S TWITTER
