Ed Sheeran insists he had ‘four-hour’ talk with Taylor Swift after Travis Kelce engagement… amid ‘fallout’ rumors

Ed Sheeran insisted that he and Taylor Swift talk for four hours after learning about his engagement to Travis Kelce on social media.

The two pop stars had been close friends for 11 years; Swift, 35, even referred to Sheeran, 34, as her “second brother” at one point.

However, when she announced her engagement on Instagram this August, Sheeran, who did not have a mobile phone, found out along with the rest of the public.

Their bond reportedly became ‘strained’ after Swift released The Life Of A Showgirl in September, very close to her own new album, Play.

But now Sheeran has claimed that he saw Swift a week after she accepted Kelce’s proposal and the pair had a ‘catch up’ experience that lasted hours.

“I’m not self-conscious about my relationship with him,” the Castle On A Hill hitmaker said in a new interview. Reach Hollywood.

‘We have been friends for many years. “We are very close and when we see each other we see each other and when we see each other we lock in where we left off,” the Azizam singer said.

‘My perspective is: Me and Taylor are friends and I’m going to see him. And a week after it happened, I saw him, did that interview, and then I saw him and you talking in person,” said Sheeran, who was visiting from Halifax.

Noting that he has social media and a mobile phone, he said: ‘There’s a feeling of being in touch with everyone, like you lose that real human connection.’

His life disconnected from technology provided him with a different result; So much so that, ‘When I saw Taylor, it was like we had a four-hour break and it was, I don’t know, you know what I mean?’ It was something about life instead of something like that.

Sheeran’s statement comes a month after the Daily Mail exclusively reported that his relationship with Swift had been “strained” recently; After the American singer released his latest blockbuster album, which is very close to Sheeran’s own new offering.

Despite their close friendship, Sheeran was kept in the dark about the release date of Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl, which topped the album charts.

In May, the British chart leader announced that he would release his eighth studio album, Play, on September 12.

Months later, in August, Swift announced that she would be releasing her own new collection on October 3, just a few weeks after Sheeran.

But when she announced her engagement on Instagram this August, Sheeran, who doesn’t have a cell phone, found out along with the rest of the public.

Despite their close friendship, Sheeran was kept in the dark about the release date of Swift’s new album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

A music industry source said: ‘Ed takes these things really seriously and plans his album releases carefully. She announced her album four months in advance, but Taylor announced hers just two weeks later.

‘This left his team scrambling to get more attention before his went down. He was very upset and understandably angry.’

‘This isn’t the first time Taylor has done something like this. ‘He’s in shape.’

Initially, Sheeran’s album peaked at No. 1 the week it was released, but later fell out of the top ten when Swift’s new album peaked at the top.

Last year the Shake It Off singer was criticized for ‘chart blocking’ when she released a UK-exclusive range of new albums the same week Charli xcx released her album Brat.

This move by Swift prevented Charli from being at the top of the album chart, thus retaining her place at number 1 with her album The Tortured Poets Department.

It also saw Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft threaten Swift’s move to the top of the US charts. As Eilish nears the top, Swift has released three new digital album download versions and a new CD version of her album.

Swift revealed that she did not tell her British ‘best friend’ about her engagement to American footballer Travis Kelce, but instead Sheeran found out about it on Instagram.

Each version included a new song exclusive to that version of the album; this encouraged loyal fans to buy each new version and keep Swift at the top of the charts.

Sheeran has previously talked about how he timed his album’s release. In 2017, he said: ‘Everyone around me who I was afraid of releasing an album released an album last year; People like Beyonce, The Weeknd and Bruno Mars.

‘Taylor [Swift] ‘It probably won’t be released until the end of this year – Christmas is the smartest time to release it because it’s when everyone buys records.’

The duo had been friends for over a decade after collaborating on their 2012 single Everything Has Changed, and Sheeran subsequently supported her on tour.

The two later lived in Nashville, where they cemented their friendship with Sheeran, saying, “We literally spent almost every day with him for about six months.”

A source said that they last met at Selena Gomez’s wedding in California on September 27, where they both made speeches, but the album’s release date was not discussed.

Swift revealed that she did not tell her British ‘best friend’ about her engagement to American footballer Travis Kelce, but instead Sheeran found out about it on Instagram.

She admitted she ‘forgot to call Ed’ to tell him the happy news before telling her 282 million Instagram followers.

He said: ‘This is one of my favorite people on the planet and then when the news came out I was like ‘Oh my God!’ We forgot to call Ed!’

Ed Sheeran’s representatives have been contacted for comment.