Ed Sheeran Discusses ‘Bond’ Snub: ‘Gonna Pretend It Didn't Hurt’

Ed Sheeran penning a James Bond theme seems like a match made it heaven, right? Well, it was “within a f*cking gnat's pube” of happening around No Time To Die before he was replaced by Billie Eilish.

Speaking on That Peter Crouch Podcast, the megastar revealed that he had been tapped to produce the 007 song when Danny Boyle was attached to direct, but once Cary Joki Fukunaga took over everything was thrown up in the air.

"I was within a fucking gnat's pube of doing one, but then they changed directors, changed scripts and that was it all done,” Sheeran revealed.

"I had started writing it. I'm not gonna pretend it didn't hurt not doing it. I think eventually as an English singer you've got to eventually do a Bond song. If they come back I'll be like, 'Yeah, yeah, of course.'”

Back in March, Sheeran announced a massive Australian tour, playing stadiums across the country in February and March as part of his ‘+ - = ÷ x Tour’ (aka The Mathematics Tour).

The shows, which will see Sheeran perform tracks from all his albums in-the-round, will include “cutting-edge production, the likes of which have never been seen before in Australia”.

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In 2018, Sheeran’s Divide Tour became the highest-selling in the county’s history, with the singer moving 1,006,387 tickets across Australia and New Zealand.

Unfortunately, he was forced to cancel a New Zealand date earlier this month due to what the tour promoters are calling "on-going uncertainties affecting a number of different variables with global touring”.

Speaking about his world tour on That Peter Crouch Podcast, Sheeran noted: "I honestly think that this next tour that I’m going on, at the end of the tour, I can’t see myself going on one of them like that again.

“I want to put as much time into my kids as possible."