Perfect: Seven get engaged at one Ed Sheeran gig as singer admits becoming a ‘trend’

By MOLLY CLAYTON

Published: 22:56 BST, 4 April 2025 | Updated: 22:56 BST, 4 April 2025

His heartfelt ballads have become a staple at weddings – rivalling even the old crooners’ popular tunes.

But so romantic are the hits of Ed Sheeran that they inspire not just first dances, but now engagements too.

Indeed the star, 34, has revealed a trend for public proposals taking place during his concerts – with fans tending to pop the question as he plays popular love songs Perfect and Thinking Out Loud.

On BBC Radio 2 yesterday, the Shape Of You singer was asked if he had heard about the ‘Ed Sheeran effect’, with Richard E Grant joking ‘marriage proposals globally have gone up 400 per cent’. 

Sheeran said: ‘There’s become a trend at my concerts where, in either Perfect or Thinking Out Loud, you just hear little cheers from around the stadiums and it is people that get engaged.

‘There was one concert where there were, like, seven proposals, and in my head on the sixth and seventh one, I was like, ‘Imagine being that bloke, where you’ve planned it out and then five people propose before, and then it just sort of takes all the wind out of the sails, and you’re like, might as well do it now’. It’s definitely become a trend.’

The Shape Of You singer, 34, has said that his fans tend to pop the question when he plays popular love songs Perfect and Thinking Out Loud

Shane Hilly proposed to his girlfriend of two years, Maddie Johns, during Sheeran’s performance of Perfect at a concert in Sydney

Sheeran said he would want Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint to play him in a biopic – the star had previously acted as the singer in the music video Lego House (pictured)

In 2018 fan Shane Hilly was filmed proposing to Maddie Johns on one knee at Sheeran’s Sydney concert, mid-way through the song Perfect.

While on air Sheeran unveiled his new song Azizam. ‘It means ‘my love’ or ‘my dear’ in Farsi and the producer I made it with is Persian,’ he said.

Grant, 67, also asked Sheeran who he would like to play him in a biopic. The musician said Harry Potter star and fellow red head Rupert Grint, who played him in the music video for his 2011 hit Lego House.

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Perfect: Seven get engaged at one Ed Sheeran gig as singer admits becoming a ‘trend’

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