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The singer took to social media to announce his engagement
Updated : Jan 21, 2018, 11:22 AM IST
British singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran said on Saturday he is engaged to long-time friend Cherry Seaborn, whom he first met at school at the age of 11.
"Got myself a fiancé just before new year," he wrote on an Instagram photo of him and Seaborn. "We are very happy and in love, and our cats are chuffed as well xx."
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Sheeran, 26, and accountant Seaborn, 25, were pupils at the same school in Suffolk, eastern England and began dating in 2015.
The ginger-haired Grammy winner has enjoyed a string of hits since his debut album + (Plus) topped the UK charts in 2011 and reached No. 5 in the United States.His single "Shape of You" was 2017's biggest selling single in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company, and "Perfect", featuring Beyonce, was Britain's Christmas No. 1 last year.
Seaborn, a keen field-hockey player, studied at Duke University in North Carolina and later worked in the Wall Street financial district of New York before transferring back to England.
A date for the wedding has yet to be announced.