Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is embarrassed by his ‘Friends’ appearance
nme.comJean-Claude Van Damme has been talking about the awkwardness he experienced during his one-episode appearance on Friends in 1996.The Belgian action star played himself on the Season Two episode of the sitcom ‘The One After the Super Bowl: Part 2’.
The plot finds Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Monica (Courteney Cox) competing for Van Damme’s affections while he is on set shooting a film in New York City.Speaking to the New York Post, though, the actor has revealed that he is embarrassed to look back at the episode.“My acting is so bad.
I look so like a ham… I’m ashamed of myself,” he said. “Those girls, they go and they kiss me and they kiss me on the lips. I didn’t know what to do, how to do … It was strange.”Van Damme has admitted that he was not very familiar with the show before appearing on it, but is complimentary about how he was treated, describing it as “a good memory” and “amazing”.“I didn’t know much about the show.
So when I go to the show, I see those two beautiful girls and they say this is the hottest show right now in the world. So I was very glad.
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