After leaving his UK fans panicked at the prospect, Ed Sheeran has declared he is not moving permanently to the United States.
Ed Sheeran has declared he is not moving permanently to the United States.
The singer, 34, clarifying his family will only relocate temporarily to America while he tours.
Ed arrived in New York on Wednesday (10.09.25), and was spotted visiting the Paramount and CBS offices dressed casually in a black hoodie, joggers and colourful trainers.
His trip followed a wave of speculation about his plans after comments on a podcast suggested he was preparing to settle in America for good.
But addressing the reports in a new Instagram post, Ed said: “Way easier to clear up stuff on here so here’s me setting record straight, coz there’s deffo a narrative press are trying to push that people wanna move out of UK for some reason.
“I’m not moving, I’m going on tour with my family and relocating to the continent I’m touring on, don’t wanna commute from London to San Diego obvz.
“Also this isn’t a tax thing, it’s USA not UAE. Il always pay tax in UK coz that’s where I live. Play out Friday go listen to it x.”
Ed, who owns an estimated £70 million property portfolio, recently bought a £9 million home in New York but spends most of his time at Sheeranville, his Suffolk estate, with his wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters Lyra and Jupiter.
Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast earlier this year, Ed had said: “I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.
“I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.”
The singer also previously spoke of ambitions to transition into country music.
He said: “When you transition to country, you can’t transition back. Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.”
Ed, who grew up in Suffolk, has described his cultural identity as Irish because of his father John’s Belfast roots.
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, he said: “I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with.
“My dad’s family is… he’s got seven brothers and sisters. We’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland.
“My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house.
“So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.”
Ed Sheeran declares he’s not moving permanently to America
