Us Explains Ed Sheeran and Niall Horan’s History, Alleged Drama

Niall Horan had a particular shock up his sleeves throughout his Friday, August 23, live performance in Dublin — a duet with Ed Sheeran.

“Are you able to please give it up for my good good friend and the good Ed Sheeran,” Horan, 30, informed concertgoers on Friday, per video footage shared by way of his social media pages. “Let’s have a little bit of nostalgia [and play] a tune that this man wrote.”

Horan was talking about “Little Issues,” a 2012 tune made well-known by his former band One Course.

Whereas the duet gave the impression to be a candy second between mates, fervent followers comprehend it additionally put previous unhealthy blood within the rearview mirror.

Sheeran, 33, wrote One Course’s “Little Issues” with Fiona Bevan, who beforehand informed Songwriting Journal in 2019 that the true “50/50” collaboration stemmed from her preliminary concept. The Grammy nominee went on to put in writing 1D’s songs “Moments,” “Over Once more” and “18” as private bonds with band members Horan, Harry Types, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne deepened.

After years of post-1D friendship, Sheeran and Horan had been caught in a love triangle, now a decade in the past, with fellow singer Ellie Goulding that impressed an obvious revenge anthem.

Sheeran dated Goulding, now 37, first, as soon as confirming that they had been an merchandise once they had been seen holding palms on the 2013 MTV Music Video Awards. Whereas it’s unknown once they broke up, Sheeran’s “Don’t” the following yr appeared to allege that Goulding cheated on him with Horan.

“I by no means noticed him as a menace / Till you disappeared with him to have intercourse, in fact,” Sheeran sings. “It’s not like we had been each on tour / We had been staying on the identical f–king resort ground / And I wasn’t searching for a promise or dedication / But it surely was by no means simply enjoyable, and I believed you had been totally different.”

Neither Sheeran nor Horan even publicly addressed the love triangle, however Goulding denied being untrue.

After a fan questioned her constancy in a 2023 TikTok remark, she clapped again on the notion that she cheated on Sheeran with Horan.

“False,” she commented. “But in addition slay.”

All appears to be water underneath the bridge. After their “Little Issues” duet on Friday, Horan and Sheeran then carried out an acoustic rendition of Sheeran’s “Lego Home.”

“Thanks @teddysphotos for popping out to play with me tonight in Dublin. One other nice reminiscence,” Horan captioned his Instagram publish.

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Sheeran, who wore Horan’s The Present Dwell on Tour merch, even joined the Irishman backstage for a particular post-show celebration.

“Myself and Ed are right here backstage and we’re gonna attempt to break up the G,” Horan captioned a Saturday, August 24, Instagram video. “For individuals who don’t know what break up the G is, mainly, it’s a must to take one to 2 gulps or so [of a pint of Guinness beer] and land this black-and-white line within the hole within the letter G [of the cup logo].”

Sheeran, who hails from England, thought he had a “fairly good” try.

“You’ve completely nailed it,” Horan gushed. “I received nowhere close to it. He’s extra Irish than us! He’s essentially the most Irish non-Irish man I’ve ever met.”

Sheeran is now married to former college classmate Cherry Seaborn they usually share two daughters, whereas Horan has been in a longtime relationship with Amelia Woolley. Goulding, in the meantime, shares a son with ex-husband Caspar Jopling.