Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift finally spoke about her engagement to Travis Kelce — after the “Sapphire” singer learned the news through social media.
“My way of viewing it is, like, me and Taylor are mates, and I will see her,” Sheeran, 34, told Access Hollywood on Friday, November 28. “I saw her a week after that happened … and you talk in person.”
Swift, 35, announced via Instagram in August that Kelce, 36, popped the question after two years of dating. Sheeran, who has been BFFs with Swift since 2014, later revealed that he found out through social media since he doesn’t have a cell phone.
“I’ve actually got rid of the iPad as well, so I’m not on anything anymore,” Sheeran said on Friday of getting rid of both his phone and tablet. “I kind of feel, like, being in touch with everyone, you lose actual human connection.”
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Weeks after Swift revealed her engagement news, she reunited with Sheeran.
“When I saw Taylor, we had a four-hour catch-up,” he told Access. “It’s life stuff rather than, I don’t know, you know what I mean? I’m not self-conscious about my relationship with her. We’ve been friends for very, very many years [and] we’re super close.”
According to Sheeran, he and the Life of a Showgirl artist “see each other when [they] see each other.”
“When we see each other, we lock back into where we left off, and I love it,” he said.
Months after their hangout, Swift shared her version of events on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“I have a perfect explanation … he doesn’t have a phone,” Swift said last month. “I’m going through my texts and being like, ‘Who have I texted within the last month in my life?’ And he just wasn’t there.”
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She added, “You have to email him. If you want to set up a FaceTime, he has to find an iPad. They have to give it to him like he’s a child that you give the iPad to.”
Swift, however, did feel bad that she didn’t tell Sheeran the happy news directly.
“This is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “When the news came out, I was like, ‘We forgot to call Ed! Oh, no!’ He’s like family. I love him, but he doesn’t have a phone.”
A clip of Swift’s explanation subsequently went viral, which Sheeran eventually saw.
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“Hello from allotted iPad time, this is factual,” he wrote via TikTok comment.
Sheeran’s devices are typically only for business purposes.
“I have a laptop that is signed into stuff, and then I have someone who works for my management who finds stuff, sends it to me and one email, and I comment on everything,” he said on Friday. “I don’t have to be chronically online, but I can have someone go, ‘This is a funny video. Check it out [and] comment on it.’”
He concluded, “I just feel like devices are running people’s lives, and I like opening a laptop, work, closing a laptop [and] going back to life. I’ve got children, I’ve got a wife, I’ve got a family, I want to be present. I don’t want to be in the internet sphere 24/7.”
