{"id":41963,"date":"2020-02-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/inside-ed-sheeran-and-wife-cherry-seaborns-private-romance\/"},"modified":"2020-02-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:00:00","slug":"inside-ed-sheeran-and-wife-cherry-seaborns-private-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/inside-ed-sheeran-and-wife-cherry-seaborns-private-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Ed Sheeran and Wife Cherry Seaborn&#8217;s Private Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.863027806385\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.893923789907\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ed_sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a><\/strong> puts lots of love and emotion in his music, but there&#8217;s one topic he isn&#8217;t thinking out loud about: marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Because for months following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/907679\/ed-sheeran-engaged-to-girlfriend-cherry-seaborn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 2017 engagement<\/a> to <strong>Cherry Seaborn<\/strong> (&#8220;Got myself a fianc\u00e9e just before new year. We are very happy and in love, and our cats are chuffed as well xx,&#8221; he captioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BeLG5CBlLYw\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo of him<\/a> kissing her on the cheek&#8221;), each time the subject arose he&#8217;d bat it down faster than a bad melody.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not married,&#8221; he insisted on the carpet at the 2018 BRIT Awards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/915561\/ed-sheeran-isn-t-married-he-s-wearing-an-engagement-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explaining the silver clay band<\/a> on his left hand was a betrothal token crafted by Seaborn:&nbsp;&#8220;I never saw why men didn&#8217;t wear engagement rings. It&#8217;s the same commitment either way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was downright obtuse when asked to share a date during an August 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EQ_cKBYYH4M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram Q&amp;A sessio<\/a>n (&#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s already happened,&#8221;) and asked to spill <em>any<\/em> details&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=16&amp;v=Cyhi1F87RrA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during an interview<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>Access Hollywood<\/em> that same month<em>,<\/em>&nbsp;he declined, explaining, &#8220;I never do anything too public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-1\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.720729366603\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018728\/rs_634x1024-180828155602-634-ed-sheeran-cherry-seaborn-082818.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn \" alt=\"Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Stephen Pond\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.267716535433\">\n<p>Indeed,&nbsp;the &#8220;Shape of You&#8221; singer only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1056275\/ed-sheeran-confirms-he-s-married-on-new-album-no-6-collaborations-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed his<\/a> long speculated about January 2019 vows&nbsp;some six months later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He did it in song, naturally, the spot he&#8217;s apt to place any message, with a verse off &#8220;Remember the Name&#8221; on his&nbsp;fourth album,&nbsp;<em>No.6 Collaborations Project<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;It was actually before me and Cherry got married, and I knew that we&#8217;d be married by the point that the song came out,&#8221; he told iHeartRadio&#8217;s <strong>Charlamagne Tha God<\/strong> of recording the track. &#8220;So I said, &#8216;Watch how the lyrics in this song might get twisted\/My wife wears red but looks better without the lipstick.&#8217; And I was like &#8217;cause someone&#8217;s going to hear that and be like &#8216;Oh they&#8217;re married,&#8217; and I didn&#8217;t know how that would be. But, obviously, it&#8217;s already come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So there you go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He later revealed the date with a simple note <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1105243\/ed-sheeran-and-wife-cherry-seaborn-star-in-first-music-video-together-for-put-it-all-on-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the music video<\/a> for his single &#8220;Put It All On Me&#8221;, a quick flash of he and the&nbsp;27-year-old consultant dancing in the kitchen spliced in amongst other couples flaunting their love around the globe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.54990403071\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.47792706334\">\n<p>Of course, he&#8217;s since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1068559\/ed-sheeran-gives-emotional-goodbye-as-he-announces-18-month-break-from-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gone on a hiatus<\/a>&nbsp;from both work and social media, following his two-year Divide tour, so it&#8217;s unlikely we&#8217;ll hear about how they spent his&nbsp;29th birthday today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But we do know quite a bit about how their romance was born.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back in high school, Ed and Cherry were crushing hard. They made out at the Castle on the Hill,&#8221; the caption dictated in the &#8220;Put It All On Me&#8221; video, a reference to&nbsp;Framlingham Castle in their Suffolk hometown. &#8220;A few years ago, they reconnected, their were fireworks.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.148936170213\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019612\/rs_634x1024-190712102709-634-ed-sheeran-cherry-seaborn-2-071219.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.16796875\">\n<p>Both of the figurative and literal variety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve known Cherry since I was 11,&#8221; he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/ed-sheeran-girlfriend-first-date-taylor-swift-july-4th-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained to&nbsp;<em>People<\/em> in 2017<\/a>.&nbsp;&#8220;She worked on Wall Street in New York, and I had like six shows [around New York in 2015].&#8221; So they reconnected a bit, enough for him to be thinking of her while he was celebrating Independence Day at Taylor Swift&#8217;s once legendary Fourth of July bash at her oceanside Rhode Island mansion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was texting [Seaborn], and she was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m in Rhode Island at a 4th of July party,&#8217; and I was like, &#8216;So am I,'&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I kinda said to Taylor, &#8216;Can I invite one of my old schoolmates?&#8217; The rest is history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By that September, they were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/693839\/ed-sheeran-and-cherry-seaborn-are-dating-new-couple-surfaces-during-las-vegas-weekend-getaway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enjoying time together<\/a> in Las Vegas and hanging out with&nbsp;Swift&#8217;s then-love&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/calvin_harris\">Calvin Harris<\/a><\/strong>. The couple spent the next year traveling around the globe, which is when Sheeran took a hiatus from music. The break from creating music was transformative for him as he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gOaT1XMUPlk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> <strong>Zach Lowe<\/strong> of Beats1 Radio in 2017, saying&nbsp;his break gave him &#8220;the time to fall in love properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.046750285063\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15.598631698974\">\n<p>In fact, it was Seaborn&#8217;s move back to London that inspired him to press pause on his art. &#8220;So the catalyst of taking a&nbsp;year off was also the fact that&nbsp;my partner&nbsp;quit her job in New York\u2014which she&#8217;s now got back in London, which is really cool\u2014but we were just basically like, let&#8217;s quit our jobs and have a year of forming a tight bond. So we went traveling and spent every day for a year together,&#8221; he explained.&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;ve probably had three days apart from her in the last year\u2026but we&#8217;re very, very strong. I&#8217;ve never been happier. I&#8217;ve never been more comfortable. I&#8217;ve never been more inspired. I feel like everything&#8217;s fallen into place, and it&#8217;s fallen into place because I&#8217;ve given it the time to fall into place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of these trips included a sojourn to Iceland, where Sheeran&#8217;s feet fell into 200-degree water while touring a volcano, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ed-sheeran-up-all-night-with-pops-hardcore-troubadour-125705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.867016976556\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20171027\/rs_634x1024-171127120448-634-ed-sheeran-112717.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran, Cherry Seaborn\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Palace Lee\/INSTARimages.com <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.627791563275\">\n<p>Over the years, Sheeran has played the role of doting boyfriend, especially when it comes to hockey. Seaborn&nbsp;led the British U21 hockey team win a bronze medal at the 2012 European Championships. He&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/article\/39095008\/ed-sheeran-has-popped-in-to-an-essex-hockey-club-to-watch-his-girlfriend-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surprised her team<\/a>&nbsp;one time to watch her play and took the time to take pictures with other players. Seaborn took her hockey skills across the pond for college, where she attended Duke University in North Carolina and played there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s professed his love in writing as well, composing the hit song &#8220;Perfect&#8221; about her. &#8220;I found a love for me \/ Darling just dive right in \/ And follow my lead \/ Well I found a girl beautiful and sweet \/ I never knew you were the someone waiting for me \/ &#8216;Cause we were just kids when we fell in love,&#8221; he croons in the song. Other poignant lyrics include, &#8220;Now I know I have met an angel in person \/ And she looks perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A night they shared while hanging&nbsp;at&nbsp;<strong>James Blunt<\/strong>&#8216;s house apparently inspired the song. &#8220;We were in Ibiza listening to Future&#8217;s &#8216;March Madness&#8217; literally not wearing any shoes and going mental on the lawn,&#8221; he said. Hence, the words &#8220;Baby, I&#8217;m dancing in the dark with you between my arms&nbsp; \/ Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.860898138007\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.430449069003\">\n<p>The irony of how that moment inspired a song now the favorite of couple&#8217;s the world over? Not entire lost on them. And&nbsp;to the benefit of engaged duos hunting down the perfect wedding track, their story seems to just be getting started.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Already parents to cats Dorito and Calippo (&#8220;Me and Cherry literally had them from birth and they think that we&#8217;re their mother,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/pets\/ed-sheeran-girlfriend-rescued-cat-after-jumping-out-window\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>People<\/em><\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thewibbles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram stars<\/a>), he&#8217;d imagine they&#8217;ll welcome some real children some day.<\/p>\n<p>Having told Lowe in 2017 that he &#8220;massively&#8221; wants kids, he reiterated the same to <em>People<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;I actually think the meaning of life is to start a family and pass on knowledge to them and be loved and be loving, so that is definitely on the cards,&#8221;&nbsp;he said. &#8220;But not any time soon. I don&#8217;t have any time anytime soon. It&#8217;s something I really want to put a lot of time into, as well. I don&#8217;t want to be constantly on the road trying to raise a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-9\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.52380952381\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.741071428571\">\n<p>Until that time comes, they&#8217;re just going to enjoy traveling the world together, something that&#8217;s easy when you have as much fun <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/ed-sheeran-engaged-cherry-seaborn-everything-said-relationship-quotes\/?slide=6121523#6121523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">playing What Do You Meme?<\/a> as you do at a Grammys bash and couldn&#8217;t care less if you&#8217;re dining at a Michelin-starred eatery in Napa Valley or <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/ed-sheeran-engaged-cherry-seaborn-everything-said-relationship-quotes\/?slide=6943457#6943457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a casual Mexican joint<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I constantly wake up every day with Cherry and I&#8217;m just like, &#8216;Why the f&#8211;ck are you with me? You could literally be with whoever you wanted, and you&#8217;ve chosen me. And I&#8217;m saying all of the things that I think are wrong with me, but you still want to be with me,'&#8221; he told Charlamagne Tha God. &#8220;And I just find that amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Originally published&nbsp;Aug. 28, 2018&nbsp;4:00 p.m. PT<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/963827\/inside-ed-sheeran-and-cherry-seaborn-s-private-romance?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Sheeran puts lots of love and emotion in his music, but there&#8217;s one topic he isn&#8217;t thinking out loud about: marriage. Because for months following his December 2017 engagement to Cherry Seaborn (&#8220;Got myself a fianc\u00e9e just before new year. We are very happy and in love, and our cats are chuffed as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 20:26:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}