Sheeran won’t be a creepy kisser

Ed Sheeran refused a mum’s request to be her nine-year-old daughter’s first kiss, because he thought the idea was creepy.

The singer was meeting fans in San Francisco when the mum offered up her child for a smooch, and Sheeran immediately opted to chat to the little girl instead.

He tells Entertainment Weekly magazine: “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?”