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Tom Hanks’s son Chet Haze asks Adele to ‘hit my line ASAP’ after viral Notting Hill Carnival photo

Haze debuted his Jamaican accent at the 2020 Golden Globes

Isobel Lewis
Thursday 03 September 2020 10:01 BST
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Chet Hanks dances to Adele after viral Carnival picture

Tom Hanks’s son Chet Haze has asked Adele to call him after she shared a picture of herself from Notting Hill Carnival.

The “Hello” singer broke the internet this week after posting a photo to Instagram wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and her hair in Bantu knots.

The picture caught the attention of Haze – real name Chester Hanks – who also made headlines earlier this year after a clip of him speaking Patois while attending the Golden Globes with his parents went viral.

In response to the picture, Haze, 30, shared a tongue-in-cheek video as he listened to Adele’s 2011 song “Set Fire to the Rain” in his car.

Singing and fist-pumping along to the track, Haze then turned the music down to compliment Adele in Patois while gesturing at his phone for her to call him.

Rapper Chet Haze (left) had praise for Adele (Getty/Adele/Instagram)

“@theshaderoom please someone tell Adele to hit my line ASAP!!! I need to talk to her about something,” Haze captioned the video, adding a collection of Jamaican flag emojis.

Adele originally shared the photo over the bank holiday weekend when Notting Hill Carnival would have taken place, with the Tottenham-born singer writing: “Happy what would be Notting Hill Carnival my beloved London.”

The picture was the cause of much debate online, with some accusing Adele of cultural appropriation, and one of her followers commenting: “Black women are discriminated against for wearing cultural hairstyles like bantu knots and locs but white people are not, that’s not fair and that’s why people are pissed off.”

However, others didn’t mind the hairstyle, as one fan wrote: “I am Jamaican and I don’t mind this at all. We have bigger things to worry about. The internet is a cesspool of people having too much thoughts. Go vote. Register to vote, focus on your mental health. This is a non-issue.

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