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October 11, 2016 POLO

Ex-area couple, baby take stage with Adele Cute kid gets them photo op with pop star

moment, said, “Hi.� “The place kind of went crazy,� Carroll said. The couple’s grown accustomed to breezing past celebrities on the city’s sidewalks, at the subway and the like. “I never get star-struck, but this was different,� Carroll said. “I’d like to say I wasn’t star-struck, but I couldn’t get off that stage fast enough.� But first, a selfie. A testament to Carroll’s state of mind, he couldn’t manage to unlock his iPhone, so they used Huston’s. Carroll did have the presence of mind to tell Huston to send him the picture immediately. He posted it on Facebook, but wasn’t going to put it on Twitter – “I figured, ‘I never use Twitter,� – until he turned on the app and saw messages, and lots of them, including an interview request with a top40 radio station the following morning. New York has a way of making the extraordinary feel more ordinary, so Carroll was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love to his (@grover5678) and Huston’s (@Jon_Huston) Twitter accounts. He expected to hear from folks back home, like his dad, Norm Carroll, and sister, Shelli Wolf. But for a Huffington Post Canada video posted yesterday to get a half-million views in less than 24 hours was a little shocking.

BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN

NYACK, N.Y. – You might say little Jackson Huston-Carroll had Adele at “Hi.� His dads, Jon Huston and Steve Carroll, made an impulse-driven decision to fly to Toronto to celebrate their 5-year anniversary by seeing the world-renowned singer in concert for the first time Tuesday at Aire Canada Center. Carroll bought fifth-row tickets on StubHub, and they turned out to be third-row seats. Lo and behold, after her second song, she said there was one person she absolutely had to bring up on stage. “She was talking about our son, and I had no idea,� said Carroll, 38, who lived with Huston, 35, in Polo until moving to New York in 2002. “She said, ‘Bring me that baby.’ That’s what she said.� After hugs and kisses were exchanged – “I forgot she was European, and I only gave her the one kiss. I should have kissed her on both sides,� Carroll said – Jackson snatched the microphone and, unfazed by the

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Adele, Steve Carroll, Jon Huston, and Jackson Huston-Carroll take a selfie during the pop star’s concert Tuesday night at Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Besides, Adele’s warmth is part of their daily life. When Jackson gets fussy in the car, they put on “Hello.� Her albums, actual albums – “We’re a vinyl family,� Carroll said – are part of his bedtime routine. Still basking in the afterglow, Huston has returned to the daily grind of running their doggy day care in the city, Paws and Relax, and tonight, Carroll will be back on second shift as a critical

care nurse. He’s originally from Polo and worked as a paramedic at CGH Medical Center while Huston taught seventhgrade math at Challand Middle School in Sterling. While everyday life has resumed, Tuesday night is “still very surreal,� Carroll said. So surreal he said he remembers little of the show after get-

ting off the stage. Similarly, Jackson fought to stay awake for the whole show, but zonked out a couple of tunes before its close. So, soon enough, it’ll be back to shopping for tickets, so the whole family can see Adele again. “I need to go back and see the concert again when my blood pressure

and pulse are normal,� Carroll said. “We’ve been scouring the Internet for different pictures from different angles. There’s one from a distance away, and that picture is going to be our Christmas card, and I’m sending her one. I feel like I could invite her to Christmas, she was that nice, that down-toearth and lovely.�

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