Warning: Poop story.
Here are some photos of Ed Sheeran performing in Dublin a few days ago. After reading this story, it’s difficult to look at photos of Ed on stage without thinking “I wonder if he just shat himself?” Yes, this might just be the biggest TMI we’ve heard from a current pop star. Ed Sheeran was doing a radio interview and he was asked about farting during performances (as one does) and Sheeran admitted that yes, of course he farts all the time when he’s on stage. But there was one time when he misjudged a fart and he ended up pooping. On stage. Halfway through a performance. I would die!
Ed Sheeran recently revealed in an interview that in addition to wowing sold out arenas with his angelic voice, he’s been known to pass gas (and another unfortunate bodily function) while on stage. During a round of some pretty TMI questions with Australian radio station Nova FM, Sheeran said he farts “all the time” during his concerts and once actually “misjudged a fart on stage, which ended up being a shart.”
Sheeran, who also admitted he’s gone at least three days without changing his underwear, went on to explain the embarrassing situation.
“It was like midway through a performance and I was really lively, and then halfway through I was like, ‘All right I’m just going to stand for the rest of the performance, and hope it’s over soon and then go home and throw these trousers out!'” the 24-year-old shared.
After laying out those nasty deets, Sheeran weighed in on the apparent VMA feud between Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj that knocked the Twitterverse on its head earlier this week. Like any good member of Swift’s star-studded posse, the “Photograph” singer defended his gal pal, saying, “Nicki Minaj is nominated for five…Why are you getting worked up? You’re doing very well. It’s a f–king MTV Award man. No one gives a f–k in a year’s time. It’s not a Grammy. It’s not a Brit, and most of them are set up and pre-planned beforehand, so don’t get too upset if you don’t win.”
I’m at an age now where I actually enjoy other people’s poop stories, just as I like to tell my own. I used to be all “EW, gross, TMI!” Ah, the arrogance of youth! Nowadays, if someone is like “I need to tell you a poop story,” I’m all, “I’m listening!” So let me just say… I’ve never misjudged a fart in this way when I’ve been feeling well. Now, a few years ago I had the Norovirus and let me just say… I threw out several pairs of underwear. The Norovirus is no joke. But standing on stage and misjudging a fart? Classic.
As for Ed’s words about the VMAs and how they don’t mean anything… he’s sort of right. I would argue that most of these music awards don’t mean all that much. This year’s Grammys were such a snooze that I’m still grateful that Kanye West went all Kanye on the proceedings.
Is Ed sharting in this photo?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I guess I’m still young enough to say Ew… TMI..
I actually like his music.. but I don’t think I like him much at all for some reason I’m unable to explain at this time.
Same here, except for the music part (I only like 2.5 of his songs). I don’t know what bugs me about him either. Maybe it’s cuz he’s marketed as this indie down-to-earth guy, but he’s as manufactured as the rest of them?
I don’t like his music either, and I think it’s because I find it so bland and forgettable, as well as indistinguishable from one song to another. (I feel the same way about Taylor Swift). Some girls in my youth groups though think he is the business and tell me that I don’t understand. That’s possible too!
Best headline ever.
Between this one and George Clooney being thwarted by the Vicar … it’s a fabulous day for Celebitchy titles!
TMI. He is a millionaire and he wears the same underwear three days in a row? That’s just laziness. Even if he doesn’t shower, he can still change his underwear. This guy has some serious hygiene issues. I’m surprised he’s tight with Taytay.
3 days, Jesus. I’d die.
Yes! I’m not grossed out by the pooping story – accidents can happen to anyone – as much as by him not changing his underwear for AT LEAST 3 days. At least can mean 4 days, 8 days or 2 weeks. That’s disgusting.
My mom has a co-worker with major hygiene issues – she always smells like old sweat and showers only once a week. She used to visit us unannounced on a regular basis and ask my mom, who was too polite to say no, to cut her smelly hair. My mom would always throw up when she left. Once she came to our house all angry and started screaming from the door that her teenage son had lost his mind – he’d met a girl and started showering and changing his underwear every 3 days for her – what a waste. My dad couldn’t take it anymore and bawled her out that a normal, hygienic person showers and changes underwear every single day and that she should be mad at her son for being a slob and not for being too clean because he wasn’t even close to that. She stormed off and never came back.
I gagged at your story, so I can only imagine how your mom was feeling! I’m a frequent public transportation user, and there are plenty of people who don’t wash with soap and water. I try to cut them some slack, especially if they look like they lack the means to bathe regularly. However, I will always get up and leave my seat if a smoker sits beside me. The stench of cigarettes on a person makes me stomach turn.
Yuck yuck yuck! One doesn’t need to shower every day but changing underwear is not negotiable. I hate dealing with people who smell rancid but don’t seem to be aware of the fact.
Right? I feel gross when my undies have been on for 24 hours. They need to be changed even if I’ve done nothing but sit watching TV In air conditioning for the last 24 hours. Just … yuck.
He said it was actually back when he was a struggling sofa surfing 17/8 year old musician and didn’t really have a place to shower etc. It’s not now…
I thought he is from a wealthy family?
I was reading comments on an article about skin dryness and all these people were saying daily showering ‘ruins your skin’ and that ‘you shouldn’t shower more than twice a week’. I was utterly shocked. I didn’t know this was a thing where many people don’t shower. I’m sorry but EVERYONE smells when they don’t shower. There were so many commenters saying “I never smell” um yeah you do. People are just too polite to say and you cannot smell your own body odour as strong as others do because your brain tends to block out any scents that are constant. There is no way you wouldn’t smell. Yeesh, buy a bottle of body lotion ya slobs!
TMI!!!!
Read the headline. Not the story and came to say just that.
Well, now I like Ed Sheeran. I love a good poop story.
Yeah. Who knew he was the type of artist who really gives a sh*t
LOL!
Ed is a brilliant songwriter and musician. His best tracks are the ones you never hear on the radio. I am not fond of his commerical tracks-they are played to death.
However, Bloodstream, and You Need Me, I Do Not Need You are phenomenal.
Ed is a genius with no filter. He is good-hearted and kind.
If i was under all that pressure, up on a stage by myself, i might poop my pants too.
Why did we need to know this, Edward?
I love that you called him by his full name. I can practically hear the mother has had just enough of your shenanigans voice in my head.
The poop story I can laugh at, I have heard of other singers “letting go” while performing. But the not changing underwear for three days? I can’t understand that and if it comes out he does not shower or bathe that often that is just too much.
Well that makes him that much more attractive.
+1
ew, still
I was judging hard until I got to the point about norovirus. Norovirus is the sickest I’ve ever been and would absolutely excuse any ruined underwear scenario.
There once was a man on a stage
His music was all the rage
He decided to fart
but instead did a shart
and now it’s on every front page
TMI….and he looks dirty and smelly!
Thank you, Mrs Pitt – I love limericks!
Sounds like something Jennifer Lawrence would brag about.
Haha, I can totally see that!
I think we could do without celebs telling stories like that but on the other hand i wonder how often it happens. I remember Gary Lineker having crapped in his pants at the Football World Cup.
Maybe Marilyn Monroe had a shart when she sang “Happy Birthday, Mr President”, maybe Lincoln had full trousers during the Gettysburg Adress.
Well, Marilyn famously didn’t wear undergarments… So no, that one is definitely ruled out, sorry.
I don’t think it’s TMI or gross, I just don’t find toilet humour funny and din’t see the need to share such things.
He sharted. I did not need to know that. No one did. And as for his lack of hygiene, that is just too grotty. I must say I wondered about that, because he always looks grubby. I’m sure he’s a nice lad, but not changing your undies or showering (because, why would one shower and then put on the dirty undies again?) is just scuzzy and lazy. Not necessary.
LOL Kaiser!!! I’m old enough to find bodily functions funny again…I’m finding that sometimes, in one’s 40’s, one endeavors upon a second adolescence of sorts. Luckily I have a tween son and we laugh together at fart jokes constantly. It’s like a bad episode of Terrance and Philip up in here. I will, however, never look at Sheeran the same way again. If I were a celebrity, I’d never, ever admit to THAT.
I could’ve gone without knowing this. Ditto the fact that he doesn’t change his unders for days on end. I pity the poor girl who finds herself in the vicinity of his nether regions.
Well this is the perfect story to read in the bathroom.
My best – worst?! – poo story: Sixlet Major wasn’t a straightforward birth and, to cut a long story short, the hospital said I couldn’t go home until I’d done a poo. I’m still confused as to why this was necessary, but there you go. I wanted to go home badly. But I didn’t want to do a poo equally badly – I think I was in some kind of post-birth, post-intervention hysteria that everything that belongs on the inside would somehow fall to the outside if I did a poo. I did one eventually, but only sitting on the loo with Mr Sixer crouching down in the stall with me. I was crying and hyperventilating, and he was holding my hand saying, “You can do it, you can do it.” Still took me ages though!
The first post-birth poo is the WORST! Terrifying.
Oh, damn, hahaha! That’s what I call real love.
lol, OK that was funny. Once you’ve been married for awhile there is no such thing as TMI. I tried the Diva cup for the first time a couple months ago and my husband still has to listen to me talk about how amazing the cup is.
Great story. Mr. Sixer is a keeper!
Talk about a demonstration of love.
I didn’t go for a week after my first kid. When I finally did, I felt like I won the Super Bowl.
My laugh for the week!
Mine felt like the Super Bowl BALL came out! 😲
And Sixer, the reason they want you to poo before you leave is because when there is manipulation of the pelvis and gut whether by surgery, childbirth, etc, there is a problem called paralytic ileus. Basically, peristalsis (the movements in the intestines that moves the matter through it and towards the rectum) can stop after what the body may consider a traumatic experience. If you’re not farting or going poo they want to keep you for further observation.
They sent me home even though I hadn’t gone but was farting. It was about 5 days post partum when I finally felt I could go. My daughter was in the NICU with aspiration pneumonia so we had gotten to the hospital for our daily visit. I hit a bathroom and it took me forever!! I had stitches so that made it worse. BH knocking on the door telling me people were waiting to get in. Lord the things I said to that! 😂
Perhaps he and Rob Pattinson should get together to trade stores about their hygiene over a pint at the pub. Both seem to look as if they don’t take care of themselves very well.
I laughed at “the arrogance of youth”, lol. Guess I’m pretty arrogant, I never get into toilet humor, but it’s interesting when it comes from someone you don’t expect, like Angelina Jolie or Marion Cotillard.
I’ve always thought he looked dirty and this just confirms it.
Everybody Poops.
In the bathroom…
Just no. I can’t stand it when random people feel the need to inform me about their bathroom-related problems, not that it’s gross or shameful or whatever… But anything that has to do with things going into or coming out of your orifices should probably be private unless someone shows explicit interest. I’m surrounded by people who love telling me all their diarrhea, hemorrhoids and IBS so I realize I’m probably in the minority here. Oh, and a “oops” or “sorry” doesn’t excuse deliberately farting in front of someone (that’s not the face of someone trying to hold one in!).
I don’t think I’ll ever get to a point where I “enjoy a good poop story” or want to tell people about my own. Sometimes these things need to be discussed from a health standpoint but poop stories? Uh, NO. Some things should be private.
However, I do enjoy a good animal poop story, but maybe that comes from working at a dairy because cows are all poop all the time and you’ve just gotta laugh or be miserable.
That’s funny, Wren, I also used to work at a dairy. You’re so right! People-poop and animal-poop is NOT the same…
No, they are NOT lol!
I miss boundaries.
Ha. Me too. Everybody wants to tell or show you every minutiae of their life 24/7. To that I say please STAHP.
That is called a Shart.
Ed Sheeran wears underwear?!
Now that’s astonishing.
TMI
Wow, has the call of celebrity come to this point where “poop” is considered a charming story. Yuck.
Give me the hypocrisy of old school Hollywood any day.
That right there is the epitome of an over share. No bueno dude.
omg lighten up folks, it’s a funny story and it could happen to anyone! We all loved Bridesmaids, didn’t we? I’ve never had this experience, but i did once vomit in a book store and wanted to die from shame. I was just flicking through a book about Johnny Depp and a wave of nausea hit. It’s awful, but whatever.
I love good fart/shart/poop stories, but I’m so weird about my bathroom habits so I think I like to live vicariously through people who are so open about it. I’m a bathroom ninja and nobody knows when I do my business!
I had the Norovirus once and wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! I eventually had to be hospitalized, I ended up on my dads bathroom floor naked from the waist down sh*tting on a towel someone stuck under my ass, I was too weak to lift myself up to the toilet after 12 hours of simultaneous vomiting and pooping every 7 minutes on the dot, I was hallucinating and thought I died, lol. Good times!
lol omg that is horrific.
I’m afraid of this Norovirus now. Also, loved the “bathroom ninja”, describes me perfectly.
Oh great. Now when I hear “I See Fire”, I’m going to think of this.
Lisa2 has already said it, but waaay TMI.
Also something that can ruin your underwear: altitude sickness. I got it really bad last summer while camping out in mountains in Montana at over 8000 feet. Can I just say it SUCKS. Also imagine having to go where there is no indoor plumbing!! Luckily our camping guide had a good system for letting us poop but everyone always knew when you had to go because her makeshift toilet was behind this clump of trees. I got over my embarrassment quickly because everyone was so concerned by how bad I got it–not just diarrhea but dizziness, nausea, general weakness and the feeling like you’re drunk or off on a boat at sea. I recovered pretty quickly but it was no joke.
Also something that can ruin your underwear: altitude sickness. I got it really bad last summer while camping out in mountains in Montana at over 8000 feet. Can I just say it SUCKS. Also imagine having to go where there is no indoor plumbing!! Luckily our camping guide had a good system for letting us poop but everyone always knew when you had to go because her makeshift toilet was behind this clump of trees. I got over my embarrassment quickly because everyone was so concerned by how bad I got it–not just diarrhea but dizziness, nausea, general weakness and the feeling like you’re drunk or off on a boat at sea. I recovered pretty quickly but it was no joke.
Oh and I got the norovirus really bad one Thanksgiving. I can’t remember how many times I threw up/pooped at the same time but I remember just clinging to the toilet and not being able to lift my head. What was worse is that we were an hour away from home at the time. Our hosts gave us a container for me to vomit in the car ride home. I distinctly remember having to throw up in their driveway before getting into the car. Took about 2 days to recover, that was a fun holiday!
Ed Sheeran’s mother thought she was going to fart, and to all our wondrous surprise,, out popped Ed, he landed on his head, and cracked the sidewalk,, and to this day.. …whenever they pour a sidewalk,, they put lines in it…in honor of Ed.
This man doesn’t have to work so hard to maximize his complete lack of sexual appeal to me.
To me this is totally à story told to change the conversation following the backlash he got after defending Taylor Swift.