Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has criticised the capital as being “sketchy” and “dangerous”.
The 33-year-old reportedly owns 22 properties in London, but has said the whole of the city poses a risk of people “getting robbed”.
The Standard reports Sheeran lives in a £3.75m estate in Suffolk, and reportedly rents out properties across London.
In a chat with US podcaster Theo Von, the popular singer was asked: “What’s the most dangerous place to be around here?”
“Here? I’d say every area of London. Literally, every area is sketchy,” the Shape of You singer replied candidly.
He continued: “I think that you cannot be anywhere. It’s not like a segregated city. No, I mean the nice areas are sketchy, the bad areas are sketchy, but you just have to not do stupid s***.”
The singer branded all of London ‘dangerous’
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“If you wander around with, I dunno, like a Louis Vuitton duffel bag and a £200,000 watch, you are going to get robbed,” he insisted before suggesting: “But just don’t do that.”
The Perfect hit-maker went on to slam the Conservative Party in the interview, accusing them of failing to support the arts.
“I’ve been doing probably for the last seven years stuff with music in high schools because in my area, so basically in 2017/ 2018, my old music teacher came to me and he was like, ‘look, the government that is currently in charge, do not value art at all… arts, drama, music,'” Sheeran recalled.
“And they cut all the funding for comprehensive high schools. So my music teacher came to me and was going, I think they had to share between art, music and drama, like £700 per year for all three subjects.
Sheeran made the remarks on a podcast interview
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“So I started funding that at my local high school. And then you see a massive uptick in kids doing production, kids doing songwriting, kids doing this.
“I built a recording studio there. There’s loads of proper instruments that aren’t broken and you just see the school getting better at music.
“So then I started doing that in the county that I’m from. And we’ve just now changed it to do it nationwide.
“And I’m now visiting more high schools and places that really need music funding.”
