Ed Sheeran: “My mum keeps buying my album in Tesco!”
Ed Sheeran talks The Walking Dead, his swimming pool and “pointless pillows”
Are you sick of him yet? Us neither. Ed Sheeran has been basically everywhere you look in the past week, promoting his new album ÷ (Divide). It’s already smashed all kinds of records, becoming the fastestselling album by a UK male artist, with all 16 of the album tracks in the Top 20 singles chart.
But when the 26 year old sat down with Key 103s Darryl Morris, all he wanted to talk about was domestic bliss with his girlfriend of 21 months, consultant Cherry Seaborn. Prepare for the cute.
Do your mum and dad, Imogen and John, still go out and buy your albums?
Yeah. The label give us 20 free copies, so when people at church ask Mum for CDS, she’s too embarrassed to say that she’s run out, so she goes and buys them from Tesco.
Does she brag about you?
No, she’s quite quiet. My dad’s like me and is kind of loud. My favourite Dad story is from a BRITS after-party one year. He lit up a cigarette in the middle of the Warner [record label] party and someone went up to him and said, “You can’t smoke in here, sir.” And he said, “I am Mr Warner,” and he was allowed to smoke.
You built your parents a swimming pool, didn’t you?
Well, I built myself a swimming pool. But it’s for them, really, because I’m never there, so they swim in it.
Is your girlfriend helping with the decorating?
Yes, our place in London is very… woman-ified. You know when you can tell a woman lives in the house because there are loads of pointless pillows on the bed?
Do you Netflix-binge a lot together?
Our last binge was The Walking Dead. We watched up to season five and then I went on tour, but she wasn’t really enjoying it because she doesn’t like zombies.
How will you cope without her when you’re on tour? Skype?
Yeah, but we’ve just spent a year and a half without a day apart, so it’s good we can have time apart.