On Friday, Ed Sheeran joined KISS Breakfast to promote his new single Shivers, but talk quickly turned to fatherhood and Ed shared a few very rare insights into life with baby Lyra Antarctica.
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When being asked about Lyra who turned one in August, Ed said: "It has completely flown, but this is what every parent says, they're just like, oh, you know, it flies by, but really I feel like I've blinked and something like…"
Along with Ed's new music is a mammoth tour around the world, and he is set on taking his wife Cherry Seaborn and baby Lyra with him.
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"Yeah you know, I've got a long tour coming up so I think by the time that she'll probably start primary school we'll have been around the world like three or four times.
"So I think it's probably time to settle [then] and have a normal childhood I think."
Clearly trying to keep his daughter grounded with a 'normal' childhood, Ed does the same with his own life, surrounding himself with childhood friends trying to not get too wrapped up in fame.
In the radio interview, the star confessed: "The beginning of my career, I sort of drunk the cool aid a little bit and I was like, I moved to LA and I got famous friends, blah, blah, blah and blah, and I sort of lost touch with them.
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© Photo: InstagramEd Sheeran announced his daughter's arrival on Instagram
"But when I came back home when I was 22, I just made a conscious effort and I was like, I'm paying for a holiday twice a year and you guys are gonna come with me and that's when we're gonna bond."
The family live in Suffolk, and the vast £3.7million estate has been nicknamed "Sheeran-ville".
© Photo: InstagramThe star lives in the countryside in Suffolk
The Thinking Out Loud star bought several houses on the Suffolk site, and the estate cost a whopping £4million to create and it includes a lake, a treehouse, an underground music room, a chapel and even a pub.
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