Ed Sheeran has revealed he’s relocating to America for the foreseeable future.
The English singer, 34, is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but revealed in a podcast interview that he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour.
Ed, who has an impressive property portfolio worth a staggering £70million, recently snapped up a sprawling £9million home in New York.
Yet he spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three.
Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast, he shared: ‘I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.
‘I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.’
Ed Sheeran has revealed he’s relocating to America for the foreseeable future after recently snapping up a sprawling £9million home in New York
Ed did not specify where in the States he would be moving to.
Yet he previously said that a move to the States could be on the cards because he wanted to transition into country music.
Ed said earlier this year: ‘When you transition to country, you can’t transition back.
‘Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.’
Ed’s decision to move abroad comes just two months after he sparked backlash for claiming he identifies ‘culturally as Irish’ despite being born and raised in England.
While the singer-songwriter was brought up in Suffolk, his father John hails from Belfast, meaning he spent much of his childhood in Ireland.
Opening up on his heritage on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Ed explained: ‘I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with.
‘My dad’s family is … he’s got seven brothers and sisters. We’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland.
‘My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.’
The English singer, 34, is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but revealed in a podcast interview that he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour
The Galway Girl hitmaker went on to say that he was ‘really proud’ of his Irish cultural roots, and that he didn’t feel that he had to ‘just be British’, as it was down to ‘how you feel’.
He said: ‘I don’t overthink it but I do feel like my culture is something that I’m really proud of and grew up with and want to express.
‘And I feel like just because I was born in Britain doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to just be [British], there’s loads of people I know that are half this or quarter this.
‘I don’t think there’s any rules to it. It should be how you feel and how you were raised and what you lean into.’
And when asked whether he gets ‘a lot of love’ in Ireland, the chart-topping star also praised the country as being ‘my second home’.
He said: ‘I’d say it’s basically my second home, musically. I’d say Ireland is the place that I am most successful musically.’
However Ed’s comments sparked backlash as fans took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to hit back at his claims he is Irish as they claimed he was ‘pretending’.
They penned: ‘Identifies just means to pretend’; ‘does Ed Sheeran hold eligibility to start for the Irish national football team?’; ‘They can have him’;
‘It’s not where you’re born. It’s your bloodline that determines what you are. Cliff Richard was born in India. Is he Indian? You can be born anywhere in the World. That doesn’t automatically make you part of that culture.’
Ed spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk (pictured) with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three
‘Whilst he’s of the Irish diaspora, he’s English’; ‘Why can’t he just identify as himself’; ‘That Galway Girl must’ve spun his head around’;
‘Ed Sheeran tour posters for the top of the bonfire’; ‘Grand so. Tell him he’s now eligible to join the Gardai’
‘His song galway girl has to be up there with the worst songs of all time…absolute rubbish with all the usual irish clichés…the only thing he missed in the lyrics was shouting “up the ra”..seems a nice lad but terrible music’.
However others understood his point of view as they argued: ‘Well his da is Irish so he’s perfectly entitled to.’
‘You can be born and raisd for some time anyway in England and still identify culturally as Irish. It’s not unprecedented’;
‘He has roots. Nothing wrong with identifying with your heritage. He looks like us too.’
