Ed Sheeran has insisted he didn’t quit Twitter because of the negative reaction to his Game Of Thrones cameo.
The singer-songwriter deleted his account earlier this week, shortly after some fans had reacted angrily to his appearance on the HBO show.
Writing on Instagram last night (July 19), Sheeran clarified: “Last i’ll say on this. I came off Twitter Coz I was always intending to come off Twitter, had nothing to do with what people said about my game of thrones cameo, because I am in game of thrones, why the hell would I worry what people thought about that. It’s clearly fuckin’ awesome. Timing was just a coincidence, but believe what you want.”
Sheeran has since rejoined Twitter – sort of. His account is active again but a message in his bio reads: “I don’t use this anymore, please follow me on @teddysphotos on instagram, lots of love x”
Last month, Sheeran said that he was planning to stop using Twitter altogether – but later retracted his comments in an Instagram post.
“Loads of Hoo-har about me quitting stuff. I haven’t quit anything, I’m just not reading anything, except Harry Potter. Hope everyone had a wonderful July 4th yo”, he wrote.
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