After a deluge of stadium concerts and films, Styles's capable if drippy 2022 adult-contemporary opus Harry's House managed to upset Beyoncé's Renaissance for Album of the Year at the Grammys. The 31-year-old then grew about as scarce as he had previously seemed ever-present. He guest hosted The Late Show With James Corden in 2023, memorialized late One Direction cohort Liam Payne and Fleetwood Mac icon Christine McVie in 2024, and ran a three-hour Berlin Marathon last fall but avoided any official business entirely.
In 2012, Adele began renting a country mansion in West Sussex known as Lock House, which boasted a nearly 20,000-square-foot main house with 13 bedrooms nestled into acres and acres of private woods and rolling hills.