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It’s no secret that Adele mined her love life to pen her Grammy-winning album 21, but there have been no details about the guy who broke the singer’s heart and inspired all those songs — until now.

A source told the New York Post that the alleged cad is a man named Slinky Winfield. Also known as Slinky Sunbeam, the 25-year-old musician was fingered as the inspiration for the 21 songs including “Rolling in the Deep,” and “Someone Like You.” Though Adele has indicated that she and the man who inspired those songs simply “grew apart,” the source tells the Post that the romance failed because Slinky got involved with a Burberry model named Morwenna Lytton Cobbold.

“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,” the source told the Post, describing him as a “seriously good-looking guy…(with) a great body” and “crazy hair (like) Jimi Hendrix” who was “the life and soul of the party.” The source goes on to say, “It’s easy to see what attracted Adele to him,” but noted that the relationship “was always going to end in tears, and those tears were always going to be Adele’s.”

Adele has since said that she’s forgiven Mr. 21, Slinky or otherwise. She’s also moved on and is now dating Simon Konecki, a 36-year-old divorced entrepreneur who now heads the charity Drop4Drop.

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One man. One coupon. Two baristas and 31 ounces of imagination. That's what it took to create the most expensive Starbucks drink ever made.

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Logan Warren, a 22-year-old tech entrepreneur and student, can't afford to drink at the coffee chain daily. "At the rate I consume coffee, I'd be a pauper in a month," the Texas-based college student tells Shine.

So when he landed a coupon for a free drink, of any size with any additional add-ons, for his birthday (a company gift if you sign up for their rewards program), he took it as a personal challenge. What's the biggest, priciest Starbucks drink money can buy?

It all starts with a Trenta, the super-sized coffee cup introduced by the company last May.

When Starbucks announced the 31-ounce option, the reaction was largely dismay. Consumerist's bloggers discovered it was larger in size than the average human stomach. Esquire writer Todd Carmichael said the concept alone made him "shudder." But almost a year later, caffeine addicts are still forking over at least $3.45 for an iced coffee the size of a big gulp.

That's without the add-ons. Warren spent a half hour with a couple of "surprisingly cheerful" baristas devising the equation for the most expensive powders, syrups and shots to fill an entire Trenta cup.

Here's how his one drink bill broke down: one Java Chip Frappucino ($4.75), plus 16 shots of espresso($12), a shot of soy milk(.60), a drop of caramel flavoring(.50), a scoop of banana puree($1), another scoop of strawberry puree(.60), a few vanilla beans(.50), a dash of Matcha powder(.75), some protein powder(.50) and a caramel and mocha drizzle to cap it off(.60).

Altogether, Warren's Franken-Frap cost $23.60, making it the most expensive Starbucks concoction money (or coupons) can buy. That's not counting the well-deserved tip for his barista co-conspirators.

But how did it taste? "Tolerable," according to Warren, "but not good. Imagine a coffee-based health food smoothie that will put you in the hospital if you drink it all."

Warren definitely didn't drink it all. With 1,400 mg of caffeine and a seemingly incalculable amount of sugar, it's literally a recipe for disaster.

Still, Warren's experiment, though extreme, is a reminder that coffee is pushing our personal budget too far. A recent survey estimated that the average American spends about $1000 on coffee a year. That number is expected to spike in 2012.

In January, Starbucks announced it would be raising prices in parts of the country by an average of one percent. With coffee drinkers already splurging between three and five bucks on a morning jolt each day, that extra one percent isn't bound to make making the 99 percent too thrilled.

While it still requires an obscene amount of espresso shots alone to inch up to a $20 Starbucks order, a few more price hikes and a creatively rejiggered recipe could change that. If you can build it now, does that mean the day will come when a cup of coffee will cost the same as two large pizzas? Start saving those coupons.

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She may not be as curvy as the original, and he not as metrosexual, but the new Mattel Duke and Duchess of Cambridge versions of Barbie and Ken are regal – and just a little kitschy – enough to make any true collector drool.

The toy company is releasing the figurines in time to mark the real-life royal couple's one-year wedding anniversary, which explains why they are outfitted in their wedding finery: he in dashing red military jacket with a blue sash, and she in a mini-version of her Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen gown, replete with tiny tiara and sapphire engagement ring, reports InStyle.

Kate's been a doll before, if you remember. Last year, the Franklin Mint issued a royal engagement edition.

But now for the bad news. When the Barbie-and-Ken dolls go on sale for $155 from Amazon.com U.K. come April 7, they will not be offered in the United States. Shoppers throughout Europe, on the other hand, can swoop up all they want. Doesn't seem cricket. 

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