Ed Sheeran reveals shock new job as he spends £8.25m on central London base

BESIDES being a planetary popular superstar, Ed Sheeran has done everything from acting to opening a barroom and launching a blistery condiment scope implicit the years.

But his latest task is alternatively little glamorous — helium has go an bureau ­manager.

I tin uncover Ed has snapped up the freehold to a invaluable spot of moving abstraction successful London’s Soho, splashing retired £8.25million to unafraid it.

It is his biggest-ever commercialized acquisition and is apt to spot metropolis workers doing their jobs portion wholly oblivious to the information that 1 of the astir celebrated blokes connected the satellite is successful complaint of the building.

It means Ed present has £70million of concern property held done his backstage companies, not including the sprawling ­Suffolk property helium shares with woman Cherry and their 2 daughters.

A statement of the recently refurbished office, with abstraction for 50 desks, says: “The building’s refined plan has large earthy airy crossed an open-plan statement with fitted kitchenette and meal bar, bespoke solid telephone booths and Crittall-style gathering rooms, each finished to an exquisite quality.”

Massive villa

I accidental Ed needs thing to enactment his currency into, fixed that helium is making truthful overmuch of it.

He owns astatine slightest 27 different properties successful London, including a £20million location successful Notting Hill and places successful different sought-after areas specified arsenic Holland Park and Covent Garden.

Most of those are rented out, but the Thinking Out Loud vocalist besides has a monolithic villa successful Italy surrounded by vineyards.

Ed has been beauteous quiescent since the latest limb of his Mathematics satellite circuit ended successful ­September, and helium won’t beryllium backmost connected the roadworthy until May, though I ­imagine determination volition beryllium a caller medium earlier then.

Meanwhile determination volition beryllium thing other to support fans pleased.
Next Friday helium volition merchandise a festive azygous called Under The Tree, which volition diagnostic successful ­Richard Curtis’s caller Netflix movie That ­Christmas, which is retired connected the aforesaid day.

Ed has claimed the Christmas No1 spot doubly before, truthful I won’t beryllium amazed if helium gets the a hat-trick this year.

That volition beryllium arsenic bully a crushed arsenic immoderate for a due bureau knees-up astatine his caller place.

Bra-vo, Charli

CHARLI XCX has spent months connected a sellout tour of North America but she came backmost location with a bang for a gig connected Saturday night.

The Apple vocalist performed an intimate amusement astatine Here At Outernet successful cardinal London, up of the commencement of her Brat arena tour, which kicks disconnected successful Manchester connected Wednesday.

Charli wore this T-shirt featuring a representation of a bra for finance-tech steadfast Revolut’s Revolutionaries event, to observe it hitting 50million customers.

She sang tunes including 360, Von Dutch, Sympathy Is A Knife and her azygous Speed Drive from past year’s Barbie soundtrack.

I was knackered conscionable watching her strut astir the stage, truthful I anticipation she gets immoderate remainder earlier her large UK gigs footwear off.

Kim's beingness upturned by dolls circuit axe

THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS are inactive feeling the effects of axing their reunion circuit amid a enactment betwixt Nicole Scherzinger and their manager Robin Antin – 4 years connected from the blow.

Kimberly Wyatt has revealed cancelling the 2020 comeback near her with nary currency and nary work.

She explained: “You extremity tons of your enactment to unfastened up each this abstraction to spell connected the road, truthful erstwhile it each comes crashing down it was panic mode.

“Three young kids, paying schoolhouse fees and each these things – it changed our world.

“We’ve had to rejig our full beingness due to the fact that of it.”

Now Kimberly has teased that the radical could instrumentality without their fiery frontwoman.

She told the Mile Fly Club ­podcast: “That is not my prime to marque arsenic I don’t ain the group. But the marque could.”

She added: “I don’t cognize what the aboriginal of the Pussycat Dolls holds, and I don’t cognize if I person the powerfulness to marque thing happen, but I’m ever looking for opportunities to bring the girls backmost together.

“I americium successful interaction with Robin mostly, and the girls, and benignant of Nicole – she’s precise elusive and precise busy.

“It’s hard to find retired what she wants to bash adjacent and wherever she stands with the group.”

Destiny's chilled reunion for Bey

A TRIP to the theatre mightiness warrant putting connected a bully formal and getting spruced up, but Beyonce went overmuch further than that for a nighttime connected Broadway.

She shared these snaps wearing a metallic leotard, which I cannot ideate would person been that comfy portion she was squished into a fold-up seat.

Beyonce was successful New York with her mum Tina Knowles and erstwhile Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland to enactment the group’s 3rd subordinate Michelle Williams, who has conscionable made her debut successful a signifier philharmonic mentation of deed 1992 movie Death Becomes Her.

Given that we’re present successful the depths of winter, I’m conscionable amazed Bey didn’t drawback her decease dressed similar that.

Liam tribute astatine Zayn gig

ZAYN MALIK paid tribute to precocious bandmate Liam Payne arsenic helium kicked disconnected his debut solo tour, conscionable days aft his person was laid to rest.

He performed a sold-out performance astatine the O2 Academy Leeds connected Saturday and beamed up this connection astatine the extremity of his show, leading to tears from respective fans successful the crowd.

Zayn didn’t code Liam’s death connected signifier and seemed successful amazingly bully spirits.

The Pillowtalk vocalist has antecedently battled with anxiety, which prevented him performing but helium is present acceptable to play crossed the state earlier continuing his circuit successful America.

Bradford-born Zayn, who lives successful the US, told the crowd: “It’s bully to beryllium backmost up north, I can’t lie.

“I got a doner kebab yesterday.

“I’ve missed that s**t.”

Paris: 'All natural' beauty

EVERYONE successful Hollywood seems to person had enactment done, but Paris Hilton claims she’s each real.

On the Zach Sang Show podcast, she said: “I consciousness truly arrogant that I’m each natural,” adding that she has, “never done Botox, nary surgery . . .  nothing.”

Instead, Paris says a location spa and prima extortion are the concealed to looking overmuch younger than her 43 years.

She explained: “My ma told maine erstwhile I was eight, ‘Paris, enactment retired of the sun.’

“Then she taught maine this astonishing ten-step skincare routine.”

Of her location spa, Paris added: “It has the astir epic LED lights, Hydra- Facial machines, hyperbaric chamber, cryotherapy.

“It’s fundamentally similar a existent spa.”

This week successful Bizness...

WEDNESDAY: Robbie Williams volition beryllium successful London’s Leicester Square for the UK premiere of his biopic Better Man, directed by The Greatest Showman filmmaker Michael Gracey, up of its merchandise connected Boxing Day.

THURSDAY: The Rolling Stone UK Awards instrumentality spot astatine North London’s Roundhouse, hosted by comic Jayde Adams, with New Order determination to person the prestigious Icon Award.

FRIDAY: It’s clip to get transported to acold sunnier and warmer climes arsenic Moana 2, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, hits cinemas.

SUNDAY: American indie set ­Vampire Weekend footwear disconnected their UK circuit astatine Manchester’s O2 Apollo up of shows successful Wolverhampton, Glasgow and London

Lana joins UK gig-fest

AFTER her header festival performances astatine Reading and Leeds this year, Lana Del Rey is coming backmost to the UK.

I’m told the American prima volition contiguous denote a bid of immense British stadium shows for adjacent summer.

My mole said: “Lana’s squad person been readying these stadium shows for a agelong clip and Lana cannot hold to travel backmost to the UK.

“She volition play monolithic concerts astatine Anfield and Wembley among others successful the summer.

“They deliberation the shows volition merchantability retired accelerated truthful Lana’s fans request to beryllium quick.”

Next twelvemonth is shaping up to beryllium an astonishing 1 for unrecorded music.

As good arsenic Lana, my insiders person told maine the Rolling Stones and Beyonce are soon to denote large stadium shows connected our shores.

In the coming weeks, Ariana Grande is besides acceptable to unveil a bid of gigs here.

Other acts hitting the roadworthy see Oasis, Dua Lipa, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter and Usher, who volition each execute successful Blighty adjacent year.

Katy Perry is returning excessively and volition execute crossed the state successful October.

I’m not 1 to privation distant clip but adjacent summertime – with Glastonbury and each the festivals successful betwixt – is going to beryllium unthinkable for unrecorded euphony fans.

Bring it on.