It’s not often that the good guy wins, but when it comes to our favourite red head he wins all the time, every time by making our hearts melt.
Don’t believe us? Allow us to demonstrate:
1. The time he snuggled up to a cat.
2. The time he proved he has his priorities straight.
“I’ve always said that I wanna be known as the nicest and hardest working guy in the industry, so if I could be known as that that would be brilliant.”
3. When he shared a #TBT pic of himself as a wee lad.
4. When he wrote songs about stories that matter and deserve to be heard:
“The A Team” and “Small Bump” are based on real experiences. “Small Bump” is about his friends losing a child. “I wrote it from their perspective. It was my perspective looking on them to begin with. It’s quite a touchy subject, so I wrote it from the perspective of actually being the parent.” And on “The A Team”: “I did a gig at a homeless shelter, and it was about one of the women there. It’s her story. Well, the song itself was written all about her story, so the song is about a drug-addicted homeless woman.”
5. He loves Nando’s!
6. When he described his dream girl and we were all, like, “That’s us! Let’s get married!”
7. The time he admitted he loves “The Notebook” and made our hearts skip a beat.
8. When he was so modest we cried.
9. The time he surprised a fan singing one of his songs in a mall by joining her on stage.
10. When he crashed a wedding and became a real-life wedding singer. #Swoon
11. When he made all his concert tickets the same price. #marryme
12. The time he adopted a cat that was going to be put down and then created a Twitter account for it *awwww*
13. The time he released “Thinking Out Loud” and made us believe in love all over again.
14. He’s BFFs with Taylor Swift, and we love her too!
15. When he gave us sapiosexual feels.
16. The time he actually sang to a cat.
17. He writes and co-produces songs for Justin Bieber – and doesn’t brag about it.
Happy birthday, Ed!
