Ed Sheeran

The 34-year-old singer has not had a smartphone since 2015.

In 2024, Ed said on an episode of the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast: "I don’t have a number.

"That isn’t me playing you off either. I haven’t had a phone since 2015.”

After the Castle on the Hill hitmaker became a global star in 2011, he decided to ditch his smartphone because he was getting bombarded with texts.

Ed - who does have an iPad -continued: "I had the same number from like age 15, I think, and I got famous and I had 10,000 contacts in my phone that would just … people would just text the whole time.

"And I was just constantly in touch with a lot of people.

“I feel like with phones, everyone expects you to reply, and if you don’t reply, it’s rude.

"Sometimes you’re just not in a head space to reply, you’re busy or doing whatever.

"But then you reply, then they reply back … and suddenly you’re in like 40 conversations at once.”