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Maddy Mussen

OPINION - Ed Sheeran, don't talk about London like that — stay in your lane

Ed Sheeran was asked, during an interview this week with the American podcaster Theo Von, about what he considers to be the “most dangerous” places in London. 

God knows why. The 33-year-old singer-songwriter was born in Halifax, raised in Framlingham, and now still resides in Suffolk — in a 16th-century Grade II-listed farmhouse on a sprawling estate so big that it is jokingly referred to as “Sheeran-ville”. But he gave his verdict anyway, telling Von: “Here? I'd say every area of London. Literally, every area is sketchy.”

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