Global pop star ‘set for special Glastonbury headline slot after almost a decade’

Massive euphony prima Ed Sheeran could beryllium tuning up his guitar for a instrumentality to Glastonbury Festival successful 2025.

The 33-year-old chart-topper past headlined astatine Worthy Farm successful 2017, but attendees whitethorn beryllium welcoming him backmost for a ‘really special’ acceptable adjacent June.

It’s been claimed that the Bad Habits hitmaker is already successful talks with festival organiser Emily Eavis.

‘Ed adores performing astatine Glastonbury and getting to sing to truthful galore fans connected a monolithic scale.

‘He hasn’t got immoderate large UK gigs lined up adjacent summer, truthful this would beryllium truly special,’ a root claimed.

Given the singer-songwriter’s precocious calibre connections and friends wrong the industry, determination could beryllium immoderate star-studded duets arsenic portion of his acceptable – aft all, helium came retired to enactment Taylor Swift during her record-breaking stint astatine Wembley this summer for her Eras Tour.

‘He’s got loads of personage friends, truthful helium is bound to person immoderate celebrated collabs connected signifier with him if it comes off,’ they added to The Sun connected Sunday.

Ed’s erstwhile quality came aft the immense occurrence of workplace medium fig 3 Divide, and was powered by its large songs including Shape of You, Castle connected the Hill and Galway Girl.

Since then, he’s released No.6 Collaborations Project – which spawned I Don’t Care with Justin Bieber, Beautiful People with Khalid and Take Me Back to London with Stormzy, each of which deed fig one.

Album Equals followed successful 2021, with breakout singles Bad Habits and Shivers staying successful the charts for 114 and 89 weeks respectively – and past determination were the 2 festive fig 1 singles alongside Sir Elton John.

Glastonbury volition beryllium taking a interruption successful 2026, with Eavis antecedently telling Glastonbury Free Press: ‘We’re taking a fallow twelvemonth successful 2026 to springiness the onshore a rest.

‘And the festival earlier a fallow twelvemonth is ever a amusive 1 to program due to the fact that you astir person to acceptable 2 years into one.’

So that mode whitethorn good mean Ed is rubbing shoulders with immoderate different heavyweight headliners.

The insubstantial reports that Harry Styles could beryllium different enactment for Glastonbury 2025, with euphony icon Cher apparently successful talks for the coveted Sunday teatime Legends slot.

Harry, 30, was 1-2 likelihood connected to execute successful September — down from 5-2 — according to Coral Bookmakers.

Coral’s John Hill explained: ‘Harry Styles is proving precise fashionable successful our betting to beryllium 1 of the header acts astatine Glastonbury successful 2025. It mightiness beryllium a motion of the times that the erstwhile One Direction prima is acceptable for a large quality astatine Worthy Farm adjacent summer.’

Adele and American stone radical Green Day person besides precocious been precise fashionable bets, but lone clip volition archer who it is they gets to battalion their wellies and caput to the festival adjacent summer.

Last year’s headliners astatine the Somerset-based euphony festival were Dua Lipa, Coldplay (for a record-breaking 5th time) and American R&B superstar SZA, with Shania Twain successful the Legends slot.

Metro has contacted reps for Ed Sheeran, Emily Eavis and Glastonbury Festival for comment.

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