Newspaper mistakenly publishes obituary with Ed Sheeran’s face
News of Ed Sheeran’s death has been greatly exaggerated by an Icelandic newspaper.
News outlet Morgunbladid printed the 26-year-old Brit’s picture next to an obituary for an 82-year-old mechanic who worked for Swedish car giant Volvo.
The mistake likely came as a shock to the ginger crooner’s legion of fans in the music-loving Nordic nation.
And this isn’t the first time Ed has suffered an Iceland-related accident.
The chart-topping sensation revealed on the Big Top 40 radio show that he had to have skin grafts on his foot after stepping into a geyser while in the country last year.
He said: “I put my foot in a boiling geyser, like a boiling pool on top of a mountain, by mistake.
Hate to break it to u but Ed Sheeran is dead. It also turns out he is a 82 year old Icelandic man called Svavar. Ed Sheeran was apperantly only his stage name…. #ripsvavarsheeran pic.twitter.com/gxXuccmU2h
— Ari_music (@AriGudmundsson) January 25, 2018
“It melted all the skin off my foot and then they had to put a skin graft on it. This was on my 25th birthday.
“They were like, ‘Don’t walk over there!’ And I was like, ‘Why?’ Then I just slipped.”
Despite news of his demise, the pop dynamo’s life and career are thriving.
Last month, the Suffolk-born singer announced that he and partner Cherry Seaborn are engaged to be married.
Ed says that he’ll stop making music in order to be a “good father”
He said: “My ambition is going to go to zero as soon as I have kids.
“I am going to be like, ‘I do not really care anymore as I have another life to take care of.’
“It is totally understandable because you have children and your ambition shifts to be like, ‘I want to be a good father.'”