Swift says Ed Sheeran would be hard to keep off wedding stage

Taylor Swift said this week that longtime friend and collaborator Ed Sheeran would almost certainly be hard to keep off the stage at her wedding and explained why he learned about her engagement on social media: he does not use a cellphone. The comments came during a series of promotional interviews for Swift’s newly released album, The Life of a Showgirl, which was issued on October 3.

Asked whether Sheeran might sing at her ceremony, Swift laughed that “it would be hard to keep him from it,” saying their mutual love of performing makes such an appearance likely. In a separate interview, she addressed why Sheeran found out about her August engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce the same way as many others. Swift said Sheeran “does not have a phone,” adding that contacting him typically requires email and arranging video calls on an iPad. Sheeran later responded online, writing, “Hello from allotted iPad time, this is factual.”

Swift and Sheeran have been friends and frequent musical partners for more than a decade. They first worked together on Everything Has Changed and have since recorded several duets, including End Game and versions of The Joker and the...