Ed Sheeran Subtly Reacts to Estranged Cousin's Digs Amid Tour Controversy
Ed Sheeran is seemingly responding to his cousin Jethro Sheeran ’s digs in the wake of the Grammy-winning singer’s ongoing Loop Tour controversy. “The other text messages were, like, from a family member who I haven’t spoken to in a very long time,” Ed, 35, said during his Saturday, October 3, concert in Atlanta, revealing he received notifications from old conversations when he recently located a discarded phone of his from a decade ago. “You might have seen [my relative] recently on social media.” While Ed didn’t mention his family member by name, Jethro, 44, recently took aim at his cousin for his stance over opening act Macklemore ’s dismissal from the Loop Tour roster . (Macklemore, 43, was let go by Ed’s touring company after receiving backlash for chanting “Free Palestine” and denouncing genocide in all forms at the New Jersey shows last month.) “I’m ashamed of my cousin Ed,” Jethro wrote in a September 17 social media post . “Finally, the world and ...