Ed Sheeran dropped by “The Late Present” final week, the place host Stephen Colbert quizzed him a few information story in regards to the singer-songwriter giving Sam Smith a singular and strange present: a six-foot-tall sculpture of a penis.
Sheeran admitted the story was true, however insisted there was an evidence.
“Elton John has been concerned in my profession from the get-go, and he buys me bizarre presents,” Sheeran instructed Colbert. “Simply, like, odd presents, like sexual type of objects.”
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In preparation for Sir Elton’s 74th birthday final yr, Sheeran determined to provide a “large marble penis” statue.
“I acquired this big, flopping, droopy factor,” Sheeran stated. “I acquired a number of totally different iterations — there was an enormous, erect, vein-y one.”
The present had the specified impact. “I gave it to him for his birthday and Elton was over the moon about it. After which it acquired out within the press that I had achieved it,” he stated. “And I’d be doing interviews and other people could be like, ‘Nicely, can I’ve one?’”
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A type of individuals was Smith. “Sam was recording at a studio up the street and Sam noticed certainly one of them and stated, ‘Can I’ve one?’ And I stated, ‘What would you want?’” Sheeran recalled. “And Sam stated, ‘One the scale of me. One which’s six-foot-two.’ So there we go. That’s it.”
Throughout a current look on “The Kelly Clarkson Present”, Smith confirmed the request, however by no means dreamed Sheeran would really undergo with it.
“It’s really wild, I assumed it was a joke,” the “Keep With Me” singer stated. “It’s a six-foot-two marble penis. It’s two tons, and I’m gonna must get it craned into my home.”
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Smith additionally shared their plans for the sculpture “Nicely, I need to flip it right into a fountain,” Smith stated. “Which I feel might be arduous to do.”
“The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” airs weekdays at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on World.
