Being famous, everyone wants a piece of you - and that includes your bits. All of you. Which is somethingEd Sheeran has learned the difficult way over the years.
He’s revealed that he doesn’t like weeing in urinals. It’s cubicles all the way for the ginger prince, and if that’s not free, he’ll reluctantly go in the wee troughs.
It’s not that Ed’s plagued with inhibitions, it’s more that everyone else in the toilet wants a glimpse of some celebrity peen. In such cases, it’s been his that other toilet users want to gawp at, and it STOPS NOW. He’s been burned too many times by other nosy urinal users.
'My rule usually is I don’t go to urinals,' he told Dax Shepherd and Monica Padman on the Armchair Expert podcast. 'There will be 20 urinals and I will stand at an end one and someone will come and stand right next to me just to have a look. So my rule is, I usually don’t.'
Famous genital hider Ed also revealed that, once forced out in the open to use a urinal as the corresponding cubicle was occupied, he had a wee beside Kit Harrington and Richard Madden.
'I met Kit and Richard, both in urinals,' he revealed. 'You’re there and you’re like, "Oh my god, this is kind of awkward. I’m next to Jon Snow". Not knowing that he’s thinking, "Oh my god, this is so awkward".' We can almost smell those urinal cakes from here so the toilet talk stops now. Barf.
Speaking of the Game of Thrones boys, poor Ed also opened up about his much-maligned cameo in the show in 2017, as a Lannister soldier, which was written into series seven as a surprise for cast member and friend Maisie Williams.
'It was great,' he explained. 'I feel like people’s reaction to it sort of muddied my joy to it. I feel like I pissed off a lot of people by being in that, but anytime I meet someone that is like, "Oh, you cameoed on that show," I’m like, "What would you say?" Everyone would say yes. I was a fan of the show; they asked me to be in it. I didn’t expect there to be that much backlash but I am definitely more careful when I’m offered cameos now.'
So two things to beware of out there, Ed. Peen peepers and choice castings.
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