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Taylor Swift is opening up about her friendship with Ed Sheeran.
During an appearance on the U.K.’s Hits Radio Breakfast Show on Friday, Oct. 3, to promote her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, Swift, 35, revealed what she and the “Photograph” singer, 34, chatted about while attending Selena Gomez’s wedding to Benny Blanco on Sept. 27 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
“I saw [Sheeran] last weekend, actually, at a wedding of one of our best friends,” Swift said, referring to Gomez, 33.
“We were just talking about how much we love when he came out onstage with me at Wembley during the Eras Tour,” she added, referring to Sheeran’s appearance at her London concert in 2024, during which they performed their track “End Game.”
Swift also shared that the pair often discuss their music, especially when they are “rehearsing or writing or working together.”
“There’s really like a sort of strange mind-meld thing that happens between us two, and we’ve always had it,” she explained, adding, “We always will.”
Elsewhere in her interview on the U.K. radio show, Swift joked that there’s nothing that she and Sheeran love more than to be asked to sing at a big event.
“We spoke to Ed Sheeran a few weeks back, and he told us he is constantly asked to perform at people’s weddings. So is he singing at your wedding?” host Fleur East asked Swift, who is engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce.
“Oh, it would be hard to keep him from it, I think,” Swift replied. “That’s the thing, he’s like, ‘I’m always being asked to sing at weddings.’ It’s like, ‘Ed, if there is a stage, you know you’ll be on it.’ He knows what people want, and he wants to give people what they want.”
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“That’s the fun thing about our friendship — we both love performing, and we love writing and singing. We’re like, ‘Oh, don’t make me sing … alright!’ Up there explaining to the house band, you’re like, ‘Shake It Off’ is three chords. We’re starting here,’ ” she added. “But that’s the thing, we love what we do, we love to get up onstage. It’s actually not that hard to talk either of us into performing at anything.”
She then added of Sheeran’s own nuptials, “He had a great wedding … like eight years ago, forest wedding, like a woods wedding.” Sheeran married wife Cherry Seaborn in 2018, and the couple are now parents to two daughters.
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A source previously told PEOPLE exclusively that Swift and Sheeran both gave speeches at Gomez’s wedding reception. The trio are all pals, and Sheeran and producer Blanco, 37, have worked on several musical projects together.
“At the reception, everyone was letting loose and celebrating them well into the night,” the insider said. “The vibe was so much fun.”
“They were glowing all night, and both Selena and Benny couldn’t stop smiling. There was so much love in the room,” the source added.
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Swift has been close friends with Gomez since they both dated a Jonas brother back in 2008. Swift was seeing Joe Jonas, while Gomez was linked to Nick Jonas.
As for the “Fate of Ophelia” songstress and Sheeran, they became friends in 2012 after Sheeran served as the opening act on Swift’s Red Tour, which followed the release of her album by the same name. Red also featured the pair’s collaboration “Everything Has Changed.”
