No love triangle right here! Over the weekend, Ellie Goulding dismissed hypothesis that she as soon as cheated on Ed Sheeran with Niall Horan.
Earlier than heading out for her New Yr’s Eve plans, the singer posted an informal TikTok video dancing to Harry Types’ “As It Was,” captioning it, “Fast boob verify then we’re birthday groovin.” (Goulding’s thirty sixth birthday was really someday prior, on Dec. 30.)
Nonetheless, a follower tried to fire up hassle within the feedback part of the breezy submit by writing, “can’t imagine u cheated on ed with niall however slay fr.” However Goulding was having none of it, and promptly responded, “False!!!! But in addition slay.”
The accusation dates again practically a decade, when the Halcyon Days singer was noticed holding arms with Sheeran within the viewers of the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards only one week after a U.Ok. tabloid claimed she was packing on the PDA with Horan throughout an outing to England’s V Pageant.
On the time, Goulding insisted she and Sheeran have been simply associates by tweeting, “I really like that holding arms with my associates means we’re an merchandise. In that case I’m in lots of relationships. Lover not a hater. #whatthef—.” However the “Form of You” crooner stated in any other case in a radio interview one month after the VMAs. “I imply, regular individuals don’t maintain arms in the event that they’re simply associates,” he stated. “It was happening. And now it’s not.”
The hearth of gossip was additional stoked the following 12 months when Sheeran launched “Don’t” because the second single from his 2014 album X. On the observe, he particulars an on-and-off relationship with a fellow singer that ends in infidelity, and one other British outlet printed that the track was about Goulding. (Sheeran later instructed Leisure Weekly he “by no means really confirmed” who “Don’t” was written about and compelled the paper to take the story down.)
In a 2015 profile for Elle UK, Goulding maintained she and Sheeran have been by no means an merchandise, saying, “I did go on just a few dates with Niall, however I used to be by no means in a relationship with Ed. I’ve completely no thought the place that got here from and why it was become such an enormous factor.”
These days, Sheeran is raking in tens of millions on his international Arithmetic Tour whereas Goulding just lately took the stage on the 2022 Earthshot Prize Ceremony throughout Prince William and Kate Middleton’s December journey to Boston. For his half, Horan is about to take his freshman spin within the big pink chairs of The Voice when the competitors sequence’ twenty third season premieres in March.
See Goulding’s closing phrase on the Sheeran/Horan rumors beneath.
