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I got to hang out with Simon Cowell’s top new band Pretty Much this week. And they DO want to collaborate with Ed Sheeran, as the flame-haired star has written a special tune for them. Result. HE’S one of Britain’s most successful pop stars but Ed Sheeran has been snubbed by The Script.
The band’s frontman Danny O’Donoghue told how Ed, 26, had invited them to his studio for a collaboration but they turned him down. Ouch!
Danny tells me: “It’s been great to watch Ed grow. I remember he did a cover of one of our songs and he came to see me on The Voice. He’s always asked can we come down to the studio but we haven’t had time.
“But we aren’t much of a collaborating band and I would prefer to collaborate with a female.”
Despite the snub, he’s still got Ed’s back. Former The Voice judge Danny insisted the new Official Charts shakeup, which has stopped Ed from dominating, is a “cop-out”.
Now acts are only allowed to have three songs in the top 100.
Danny, 37, says: “If the whole of England is looking to Ed Sheeran, then that is tough s*** really. If that is what the chart is saying, then that’s what it should say.
“If Ed Sheeran has the first 10 songs on there because his album has blown up, then that is the truth. “The changes are a bit of a cop-out.” The Script are back with their brilliant new single Rain, and will announce a new album next week.
Is it still sex, drugs and rock and roll? “I’m in a rock band – it’s not One Direction, for God’s sake,” Danny howls. “I can still party like I could five years ago.”
Cheers to that.