Taylor Swift pens a love letter to Ed Sheeran for TIME's 'Most Influential People'

Time Magazine has issued it's '100 Most Influential People' issue, the list features actors, sportspeople, politicians, artists and musicians including one Mr Sheeran.

Ed’s BFF Taylor Swift wrote a tribute to him for the magazine to celebrate the occasion. Tay-Tay wrote: “As a young, precocious redheaded boy growing up in Framlingham, Suffolk, Ed Sheeran decided he wanted to be a musician. He started writing songs and playing instruments like so many hopefuls do, but something very different happened that would set in motion one of the most impressive self-made careers in music.”

Taylor continues: “Whether by choice or an unconscious evolution, when he decided on his musical ambitions, Ed became less of a boy and more of a tank. He is protected by an impenetrable and ever-present armor of enthusiasm that has helped him endure any setback, letdown or underestimation. His reaction to any idea that fails is to almost immediately come up with a new one. He’s like a fighter who pops back up on his feet before you even noticed he’d been knocked down.”

Before finishing off the essay: “Congratulations to my friend Ed, for the legacy you’ve already built and the brilliant hook you probably just came up with five minutes ago.”

Awwwww these two! 💕 💕

Also making it onto TIME's '100 Most Influential People' list is Emma Stone, Riz Ahmed, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Ryan Reynolds, James Corden, Chance the Rapper, Theresa May and Simone Biles.

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