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Ed Sheeran: 'A mother wanted me to be her 9-year-old daughter's first kiss'

British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has revealed that he recently turned down a mother's request for him to be her daughter's first kiss because it was inappropriate. 

The star told Entertainment Weekly that it was an awkward situation, but he managed to convince the mum and her daughter to settle for a chat with him instead:

"She wanted me to be her daughter's first kiss - and her daughter was nine. She was like, 'Well, Carrie Underwood did it for this 11-year-old boy last week'."

"If Carrie Underwood kisses an 11-year-old boy, he goes to school the next day and they go, 'Oh, you absolute lad!' If a nine-year-old girl goes into school and goes, 'I got kissed by a 24 year old yesterday', police are being called, you know?"

Sheeran recently won the Songwriter of the Year prize at the Ivor Novello ceremony in Londonand Sir Elton John told the attendees that the superstar will enjoy an amazing career: "He loves to embrace other artists, and is always collaborating with other people. Whenever I speak to people when they start out, I say to them, 'Please enjoy it. It's a really special time. For five or six years you will be doing no wrong, and then someone else will come along and you'll find your feet'."

"But this boy next to me will have a career - if he wants to - as long as mine. I am quite confident about that. I hope he doesn't get into half the trouble I got into, and he'd have to marry a man and a woman!"

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