{"id":2478712,"date":"2026-06-27T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2478712"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:22:09","slug":"wisconsin-cancer-survivor-meets-ed-sheeran-at-summerfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wisconsin-cancer-survivor-meets-ed-sheeran-at-summerfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin cancer survivor meets Ed Sheeran at Summerfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Wisconsin cancer survivor was surprised with an Ed Sheeran meet-and-greet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aurora Health Care said 55-year-old Blake&#8217;s bucket list included meeting Sheeran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two met backstage before the musician&#8217;s concert at Summerfest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span><strong>MILWAUKEE<\/strong> &#8211; <\/span>A Wisconsin cancer survivor was surprised with a picture-perfect \u2013 or perhaps &#8220;Photograph&#8221; &#8220;Perfect&#8221; \u2013 backstage encounter with Ed Sheeran at Summerfest on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blake, 55, was diagnosed with blood cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. He underwent chemotherapy in Oshkosh before receiving a stem cell transplant at Aurora St. Luke&#8217;s Medical Center in Milwaukee, and his recovery included 21 days in isolation without visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/foxlocal.onelink.me\/6abq\/ijh6elyt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;FREE DOWNLOAD&quot;}\"><strong><u>FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aurora Health Care said Blake made a bucket list to help him stay focused on the future, and meeting Ed Sheeran was on that list. A musician himself, Blake has attended multiple Sheeran concerts and has some album-themed tattoos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, Blake and his fianc\u00e9e were first surprised with Ed Sheeran swag and more. Then, they learned of the big surprise \u2013 a backstage meet-and-greet with Sheeran before his performance at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;For us, this concert is more than just a night out,&#8221; Blake said. &#8220;It\u2019s a celebration of survival, gratitude and the chance to enjoy experiences that once felt uncertain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aurora Health Care released information about the surprise and meet-and-greet between Blake and Sheeran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief A Wisconsin cancer survivor was surprised with an Ed Sheeran meet-and-greet. Aurora Health Care said 55-year-old Blake&#8217;s bucket list included meeting Sheeran. The two met backstage before the musician&#8217;s concert at Summerfest. MILWAUKEE &#8211; A Wisconsin cancer survivor was surprised with a picture-perfect \u2013 or perhaps &#8220;Photograph&#8221; &#8220;Perfect&#8221; \u2013 backstage encounter with Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2478713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[487851,467090,487852,38262,374250,22217],"class_list":["post-2478712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-aurora-health-care","tag-blood-cancer","tag-cancer-survivor","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-summerfest","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wisconsin-cancer-survivor-meets-Ed-Sheeran-at-Summerfest.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478714,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478712\/revisions\/2478714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}