Adele `mistook record-exec emails for Internet pervs`

The interest came flooding in after a friend set up a MySpace page for the Someone Like You singer when she was just 14 and studying at the famous Brit School in Croydon, but Adele didn't take it seriously until she was 18.

She told The Sun, 'My friend set up a MySpace page for my music in 2004, but I was 14 or 15 and I wasn't really interested in it.

'But it was part of my course at school to learn how to use recording equipment, so I'd record these demos then I'd give them to my friend Lyndon, because I don't listen to my own music, and he started putting them on there.

'He kept saying to me between 2004 and 2006, 'I think you've got an email from someone at Sony.' But I kept saying, 'Oh, it's probably just an internet perv,' so he didn't reply.

'Then the day after I finished college, when I was 18, he gave me the website password and said, 'You should go on this now. I don't think they are internet pervs, I think they are serious'.

'I went on there and had all of these emails from record companies. Then three days later I was in the offices of XL Recordings, who ended up signing me.'