Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Sam Smith says Ed Sheeran gifted them a giant marble statue of a penis
nme.comThe Kelly Clarkson Show this week, Sam Smith revealed that Ed Sheeran has gifted them a giant marble statue of a human penis.Blushing when Clarkson mentioned the unusual offering, Smith quipped: “It’s actually wild – I thought it was a joke, but it’s a six-foot-two marble penis… It’s two tonnes, and I’m going to have to get it craned into my house.”The singer went on to explain that they “want to turn it into a fountain” – predictably eliciting an emphatic response from Clarkson and her audience – before telling the host that they’re not even the first of Sheeran’s colleagues to be gifted with a giant statue of a penis. “He gives people concrete penises.
I’m not the first – Elton got the first.”Clarkson joked that she would reach out to Sheeran for a similar monument of her own, to which Smith replied: “He’ll do it!” They also invited Clarkson to help find a name for their statue, suggesting Phillip and Kevin – the latter of which Clarkson disagreed with because it “reminds [her] of Home Alone” – before settling on the host’s own suggestion, The Duke of Hastings.See a clip of Smith talking about their giant marble dick on The Kelly Clarkson Show below:Smith appeared on the show to promote their latest single, ‘Unholy’, a collaboration with Kim Petras which they dropped last month.
It followed the April release of their single ‘Love Me More’, and will join that song on Smith’s upcoming fourth album.When they released ‘Love Me More’, Smith said the song was “the perfect way to begin this new chapter” of their career.
They continued: “It’s taken a lifetime to express this type of joy and honesty in my music. I’m so happy to have you all here with me.
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