Ed Sheeran reveals he has 24-hour security for himself, his kids and his wife out of fear of 'dangerous people' after attempted break-in
The Galway Girl hitmaker, 34, made the confession on the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast while discussing his wife Cherry Seaborn and their two daughters.
Speaking about life in the limelight, Ed revealed there had been an attempted break-in at his sprawling Suffolk home, dubbed Sheeranville, and he brought in 24-hour security as a result.
He said: 'I do think that there is a different kind of normal that is our business. I have like 24-hour security on my house. I have security with my kids.
'I have security with me. I have security with my wife, just because there have been a couple of weird things over the years that have happened.'
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Louis appeared shocked, to which Ed added: 'Just so you know there's lots of dangerous people out there. We've had like you know a break-in attempt.
'In my industry, that's normal. That's kind of like an underlying thing that no one really talks about, but that is kind of a part of being in the public eye.'
Elsewhere in the episode, Ed lifted the lid on his very famous pals ranging from Elton John and Dave to Stormzy.
He also recalled how Van Morrison once woek him up at six in the morning after a boozy night out with golfer Rory McIlroy.
He said: I was doing a gig in Belfast and my grandmother had come down to the gig and she loves golf. Rory had come down and she loved being around him. We stayed up super late talking to him, and I'd say we went to bed at like 4am.
'About 6am, I got a call on my hotel phone from the hotel — "Mr Morrison's in the lobby, he wants to have breakfast with you". I was half asleep and half drunk. So I just hung up and I was like, "I have no idea who Mr Morrison is".
'Then I got another call and they said, "Sorry, Van Morrison is in". I ran downstairs and there he was waiting for me and we had breakfast, which is really surreal.'
Another of the stars Ed has been lucky enough to spend time with is Eminem, who the A Team star worked with on the rapper's 2018 song River.
Ed said: 'He loves comic books, Marvel movies and video games. I sent him a Nintendo 64 with Goldeneye on it because he'd never played it.'
And the singer also revealed he once gave Stromzy a lift to the pub after buying his first car, a Mini.
'He didn't fit in the back,' he said. 'He seems like he'd be quite shy but I don't think he is when you get to know him. His humour is very similar to mine.'
Meanwhile, speaking about his pal Dave, he said: 'He's done a lot of production on the new record because aside from being a brilliant lyricist, he's also an incredible producer and writer.'
It comes after Ed was spotted cheering on his favourite football team Ipswich Town alongside Lewis Capaldi at the Premier League match against West Ham United last month.
The Give Me Love hitmaker appeared in jovial spirits alongside fellow singer Lewis, 28, in Ipswich, only for his beloved team to bid farewell to the Premier League after a 3-1 defeat.
The beloved English songwriter beamed in the stands, in the early stages of the match, as he sported a black and white long-sleeve shirt and a fuchsia baseball cap.
Ed enjoyed some time off at the football game after making a surprise appearance at Radio 1's Big Weekend the day before, where he performed a new song inspired by his $100 million copyright trial.
The singer wrote the track after revisiting an old phone during the lawsuit over his hit 'Thinking Out Loud.'
He had been accused of copying Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On but was cleared in court in 2023.
Taking to the stage at the Liverpool-based festival, Ed opened up about the inspiration behind his new song Old Phone before performing it for the first time in front of a crowd.
Referring to his copyright trial, told the crowd: 'The judge ordered me to give up my old devices to the other lawyers for them to go through all my text messages and emails and photos and stuff like that.
'And in that process I switched on a phone that I had not looked at in 10 years and it was like looking into the past and it was conversations with people who had passed away.'
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