Ed Sheeran to Take Break From Music, Spend Year Volunteering

Earlier in the year, Ed Sheeran shared that he was hoping to "get on the outside [of the showbiz bubble] for at least a year." Now, it's surfaced that the X singer may spend his spare time working in a local charity shop.

"There's a good possibility he will volunteer here. We'd welcome him," Jacqui Bell, manager of the Sue Ryder shop in Framlingham, Suffolk, recently told the press. "My volunteers, who are aged between 61 and 91, know Ed because he was brought up in the town. They would be fine working with him."

She continued to detail that the 24-year-old singer recently purchased an old police station and has since turned it into a youth club, a safe haven that Sheeran credits for the launch of his music career, NME notes. The singer/songwriter is expected to donate wardrobe to Sue Ryder and a St Elizabeth Hospice charity shop. "He'll also be helping there when it's up and running. I think he will draw the youngsters into our shop which will be good for us."

Before he takes time away from the music industry, the "Thinking Out Loud" singer will appear in Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter's latest TV venture, The Bastard Executioner. For someone with a talent to craft such beautiful lyrics, a charitable heart and nonthreatening ginger hair, it's difficult to imagine him as anything other than a gentle soul, nonetheless a lethal medieval knight.

Sheeran also recently permanently marked his chest with his newest tattoo, a gigantic, half-finished lion, which has seen wide criticisms concerning the coloring and size.

"All this kerfuffle over a tattoo," he tweeted. "If it was black and white saying a clever phrase in a language I can't speak no one would've said anything."

"It's not the first weird tattoo I've got and it won't be the last," he added. "I like all of them."

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