Ed Sheeran will slow down when he has kids

Ed Sheeran will stop touring when he has children.

The ‘Shape Of You’ hitmaker – who is dating Cherry Seaborn – would love to have kids in the future but wants to wait until he stops playing his music around the world because he wants to focus on being a father to the little ones.

He said: "I don’t want to be touring when I have kids, I want to be like nipping out every now and then and being able to actually be a father so yeah, I think I would definitely love kids, I would definitely love all the kids in the world but I don’t want to have them right now."

And the 26-year-old singer feels very lucky to have such "good people" around him who keep him grounded.

He added: "I just think it helps having good people around you because I always have someone who slaps me on the wrist if I ever do anything weird.

"I just remember being on tour one time and being like, ‘I don’t want to go on stage today’ and someone was like, ‘Why? It’s your job.’"

Ed also confessed he has "stepped away" from going out now and instead prefers to invite his friends to his home for a night in.

Speaking to Richard Arnold on ‘Good Morning Britain’, he shared: "I’ve kind of like stepped away a bit from going out all the time like I don’t really like going out that much, so my going out would be inviting four friends around and having a drink rather than going out to a club."

Meanwhile, Ed previously confessed he dreams of him and his wife bringing their children up in the countryside.

He said: "This is my idea of happiness; living in the countryside, having a multitude of children always around me and my wife by my side. Writing songs every day and then going to pick up my kids at school … I’m ready [to be a dad], but then it’s not me who have to carry a baby in the belly for nine months, so it’s not just up to me."