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Ed Sheeran<\/a> was the target of a pretty scathing joke during last night’s “SNL UK” opening monologue … which compared him to an obedient puppet.<\/p>\n “Chicken Shop Date” host Amelia Dimoldenberg<\/a> told the crowd … “I\u2019ve been incredibly privileged to have done so many interviews with people like Idris Elba<\/a>, Cher<\/a>, and even a world-famous, red-headed puppet with a hand up his arse telling him what to say.”<\/p>\n After a pic of her interviewing “Sesame Street” icon Elmo<\/a> appeared, Amelia said … “No, the other one.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then a graphic of Amelia with Ed appeared on screen … which led to laughs and then cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n Amelia was taking a big hit at the fallout from Ed’s tour axing<\/a> opener Macklemore<\/a> after his pro-Palestine remarks — and the “SNL UK” audience sounded like they were totally behind the ‘Chicken Shop Date’ star’s POV.<\/p>\n Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n We reported earlier … Ed said that removing Macklemore from the tour for making pro-Palestine remarks was “the promoter’s decision<\/a>, not mine.”<\/p>\n He later apologized<\/a> to fans for the rapper’s controversial firing at his Philadelphia concert last week.<\/p>\n Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n Ed said that after trying to keep quiet on his feelings, he felt that Israel’s response to the “horrific” October 7 massacre was “unjustifiable” and “disproportionate.”<\/p>\n As we first reported … Ed was set to perform at two concerts at Robert Kraft<\/a>‘s Gillette Stadium this weekend … but those performances were canceled<\/a> due to a nor’easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Slammed on ‘SNL UK’ In Scathing Monologue Published September 27, 2026 8:28 AM PDT Ed Sheeran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24229,88,357624,12853],"class_list":["post-862691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-entertainment","tag-macklemore","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}