Too much ice cream made Ed Sheeran sick
Ed Sheeran once became violently ill after eating two litres of chocolate ice cream. The 30- year- old pop star completed the Big Kahuna Challenge in Rhode Island in 2013, after he was encouraged to test himself by his showbiz pal Taylor Swift. But the experience ultimately led to him projectile vomiting.
Speaking about his eating habits, Sheeran shared: “I used to be a pizza and chips man and that’s all I ate. When I started travelling the world my thing of it was if a whole culture goes ‘this is our thing’ and ‘we love it’ then I’m going to give it a go because when you go into any restaurant and there’s a chef there and they specialise in something it must be good.”
The Perfect hitmaker was particularly determined to impress Swift during the ice cream challenge. But he was ultimately left feeling terrible and was “sick all over the floor”.
He told the Off Menu podcast: “She had invited us to her place in Rhode Island and so we got there, and she said there’s this great little ice cream place in the town. We went there, and they had this ice cream eating competition called the Big Kahuna Challenge and at this point, I was like I can do this, I know I can do this, and it was something crazy like two litres of ice cream and I was like I can do that.”
He said that when they brought the ice cream out, he “stupidly” added gummy bears as his toppings. “[They] are going to fill you up so I start eating this thing and I get halfway through and go ‘I am killing this’ and because it’s Taylor, lots of fans started turning up so in the end there are 20-30 young girls going ‘you can do it Ed!’”
Sheeran said that he got three quarters through and started shivering. He later vomited.