The singer Ed Sheeran has revealed he turned down the opportunity to perform the “first gig in space”.
The 34-year-old appeared on Scott Mills’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show to discuss his latest album, Play. During a conversation about American singer Mariah Carey – who said she wouldn’t want to go to space – Sheeran revealed he had been offered the chance to go himself, but turned it down.
“The idea terrifies me,” he said. “I want to go to space when it’s like flying to France and 40,000 people have done it, and you can just book it online.”
“I don’t want to be a guinea pig for that, because it is still dangerous. There’s places on this planet I would far rather go to than space.”
Sheeran said that the offer included performing the first gig in space, but he admitted it felt too risky now he was a father: “I’m not going to risk that for a Guinness World Record something or other. I’m not going to risk my kids not having a dad.”
Pop star Katy Perry joined five other women on an 11-minute mission last April aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket – Blue Origin
The Suffolk-raised singer recently revealed he was going to move to America in an interview with The 2 Johnnies Podcast, and announced he has plans for a posthumous album called Eject in the event of his death.
Sheeran also spoke about his friend Lewis Capaldi returning to the stage after a break following his performance at Glastonbury in 2023. Capaldi has been vocal about struggling with symptoms of Tourette syndrome.
He told The Scott Mills Breakfast Show: “I haven’t seen Lewis on tour, but we have been speaking a fair bit.
“I’m really happy for him – I really think that him taking time off was the best thing for him and his health. He has actually come back into it like reinvigorated and really loving it again, which I don’t think he was on his second record.”
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