Get a best friend who looks at you like Ed looks at Harry .
Did you knowEd SheeranandHarry Stylesgo way back to the early days of the 2010s when their careers were just getting started?
Yep, so on a Tuesday appearance onthe Spout Podcast,Ed was asked about his relationship with the One Direction alum, and he had the most adorable response.
The “Shape of You” singer and Harry have known each other since they were teeny boppers. “I’ve known Harry since he was about 16, and I was 19," Ed began.
“There’s something about going through your formative years, you know, like, it’s quite weird. Like, he’s obviously, like, on top of the world right now and has gone from being in the biggest boy band in the world to then being the biggest solo artist in the world.”
“And it’s just, it’s an amazing journey to see. I’m, like, really, like, super, super proud of him," he added.
According to Ed, the Grammy Award-winning buddies crashed on couches together in their early days. “There’s a guitarist that both of us knew called Chris, that I wrote ‘Lego House’ and ‘Give Me Love’ with, who used to play for the One Direction lads, and me and Harry used to sleep at his house together.”
And the pair have been dropping hit after hit since they started. “The day ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ went number one,Plus[Ed’s debut album] went No. 1 the same day…”
“Now, he’s on a stadium tour, and I’m on a stadium tour, and it’s quite weird looking back at that journey,” Ed said.
Need proof of their adorable kinship? The “As It Was” singer and Ed actually have matchingtattoos. Back in 2013, Ed toldMTVthe meaning behind hisPingutattoo.
“I got that withHarry Styles, he gotPingu[written under his arm],” Ed said. “Kinda like a bro tat.”
Pinguis a stop-motion children’s series about a curious Emperor penguin who occasionally throws tantrums from the ’90s that returned in the early aughts. Adorable.
Talking withthe Spout Podcast, Ed also compared his friendship with Harry to the one he shares with another Grammy-winning superstar,Taylor Swift.
“It’s the same thing as Taylor, like, there’s rarely people that, like, totally understand you, and I think both of them, because they are solo artists and are at this level, you kind of talk, and there’s an understanding there that you don’t necessarily get from everyone," he said.
Ed expressed they all have really busy schedules so it’s not like they’re talking every single day, but “when [he talks] to them, it’s like conversation — like a chat.”
I hope Harry and Ed stay best buddies forever!
Listen to the episode below.
