Tattoo funny... how Saoirse tricked Ed Sheeran into a misspelt inking

ED Sheeran has revealed that he is now stuck with an incorrectly spelled tattoo after his actress friend Saoirse Ronan deliberately wrote ‘Galway Grill’ instead of ‘Galway Girl’.

The 26-year-old singer – who has more than 60 tattoos – laughed it off as he claimed it was the sort of thing he would do.

The singer, pictured, made the confession on the first night of the Glasgow part of his UK tour.

Saoirse, 23, who stars in his Galway Girl music video, which was filmed in Ireland last week – thought it would be funny to misspell the song title.

Speaking at his concert, he said: ‘When we were filming it, I meant to get a tattoo of her handwriting saying “Galway Girl”. It actually says Galway Grill, G-R-I-L-L. She really took the p*** outta me – full on.

‘I’m actually quite proud of her it’s the kind of thing I would do.’

The singer is proud of his tattoos and famously even went shirtless to show them off for his Shape Of You music video.

Until then, the record-breaking artist had covered up his varied colourful tattoos with baggy jumpers.

The singer has painstakingly spent 40 hours being inked by celebrity tattoo artist Kevin Paul, who has also inked Rihanna and Harry Styles.

Paul said: ‘We’ve spent about 40 hours on Ed over the past year, and keeping it a secret was probably the hardest bit.

‘Sometimes he’d travel to me but usually we’d go round to his house, put on a box set and order Nando’s, and do a bit of tattooing. It was all very chilled.

‘Ed now has 30 tattoos on his front, plus countless ones down his arms. Every single one recently involved horrific pain, especially around the ribs. And I remember one time he had to fly out to Italy the next day, and had this awful, weeping tattoo seeping through the clingfilm used to protect it. It wasn’t an ideal situation.’

Every single tattoo has a meaning, whether it is connected to a family member, a friend or a cherished memory. But the songwriter doesn’t plan to stop there as he wants to get 30 more on his back.

The star recently said of his passion for tattoos: ‘They say: “But what about when you’re an old man?”, and I think “Well, I’ll look f ****** cool when I’m old”.

‘I might look wrinkly but have you ever seen your granddad with his top off? Because I haven’t.

‘I get one done for anything I’m proud of or for something I want to remember.

‘People say when they see my tattoos that I look like a melted crayon, so that’ s interesting. I guess this is just my eight year-old self coming out.’