Ellie Goulding denies long-standing rumor that she cheated on Ed Sheeran with Niall Horan on TikTok

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Ellie Goulding denies long-standing rumor that she cheated on Ed Sheeran with Niall Horan.

Ed Sheeran has long been one of the music industry’s biggest stars. After he burst onto the charts with his hit song “The A Team,” Sheeran quickly became a standard, with stars and singers clamoring to work with the English-born singer. In the past decade, Sheeran has consistently released popular songs, including “Thinking Out Loud,” “Shape of You,” and “Castle on the Hill.” While Sheeran has consistently avoided drama for most of his time in the spotlight, one particular song caused many to speculate about the singer’s relationship with fellow performer Ellie Goulding. Sheeran played coy about the song’s meaning, telling Parade that the tune is a “bitter song of romantic betrayal.” According to Entertainment Tonight, Sheeran said that the song is “about someone who’s well known.” However, despite some rumors, he stressed it’s not about his good friend, Taylor Swift.

Many fans theorized “Don’t” was about Sheeran’s rumored romance with singer Ellie Goulding, especially since the two had been spotted together on several occasions. They even held hands at the 2013 MTV Music Awards. Later that same year, Goulding was seen with Niall Horan, who was best known at the time as part of One Direction. According to The Sun, Sheeran’s song “Don’t” even contained several veiled digs at Horan. For his part, Horan didn’t address “Don’t” or any rumored bad blood between himself and Sheeran.

A year later, in 2014, Ed released "Don't" and it was about being cheated on by a lover with a friend. According to the song lyrics, the lover was someone "well known" and someone who makes money the same way as him, who was also on tour, and who stayed in the same hotel as him.

Fans thought Ed was singing about Ellie cheating on him with former One Direction member Niall Horan. Then, an English publication at the time published an article confirming (without proof) that it was about that. "I never let it slip [who the song was about]," Ed told Entertainment Weekly. "What happened was one of the newspapers in England just printed that it was confirmed when it never was."