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Ed Sheeran Musician

TURNS GARDEN CENTRE GROTTO INTO GIG

Management confirms he is a seasonal Father Christmas and will be looped until January

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Ed Sheeran holds a timetable in one hand while queuing at a post office counter at a trailer park in Florida, his other hand steadying a loop pedal the size of a postage stamp.
Location
Grotto behind the pond-liner aisle, a short walk from a shuttered Jersey Shore arcade
Currently
Garden centre Father Christmas, building each carol on a loop pedal
Last confirmed sighting
Sat on a garden centre throne, layering sleigh bells through a pedal
Observations
Can tune a guitar by glaring at it from the far side of a car park.

Ed Sheeran has taken a post as Father Christmas at a garden centre beside a closed boardwalk arcade in New Jersey. He sits on the throne in a plain jumper with an acoustic guitar. Each child's wish is tapped out on the guitar body and recorded.

"He asked for a bike, and then I heard it come back at me in four-part harmony," said Lorraine, who runs the tea counter. "By the third verse the whole compost aisle was swaying. I only came in for a trowel."

He is currently building a Christmas medley one layer at a time on a loop pedal, with sleigh bells, a tapped sack and a bass line hummed into a flowerpot. It is going well, but he can't stop the loop and the queue now hears every child's wish eleven times.

Guidance for the public

Do not mention a wish aloud unless you are prepared to hear it again.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 17 February 1991. Source: Wikidata

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