Loose Women panellist Brenda Edwards has confessed to snubbing pop star Taylor Swift at a star-studded wedding for a very touching reason
Loose Women's Brenda Edwards revealed she once snubbed pop star Taylor Swift at a wedding for a touching reason.
The TV star, 55, recalled her encounter with the pop star while on the ITV daytime show on Friday. She shared how their paths crossed when she attended a wedding with her late son Jamal Edwards. Brenda didn't disclose whose wedding it was, but many viewers believed it could have been Ed Sheeran's 2019 ceremony with Cherry Seaborn.
Ed was close friends with Jamal and has a tight bond with Taylor. Jamal sadly died at the age of 31 in 2022 following a cardiac arrest. Opening up on the experience with Taylor, Brenda shared: "The reception time had come and we came into the room and everybody found a seat and sat down.
"I thought to myself Jamal's brought me here so I am going to sit and not say anything and keep my eyes down, which I did. Which is very out of the ordinary for me." She continued: "So I sat there and after about half an hour she was sat talking and I could hear the conversation but its not my conversation. And then she says to me ''hi, would you like to come and sit with us?' and I said, 'no thank you' and afterwards I was like 'ugh!'.
"I spoke to Jamal after and he said 'mum you should gone and spoke to her, don't be so awkward' and I said 'I was trying not to embarrass you and say something stupid, like I normally would!' But she was very lovely and she was very down to earth, and you could feel her aura about her that was so calm and pleasant."
Brenda attended the wedding with son Jamal
It is believed to have been Ed Sheeran's wedding as he's pals with Taylor Swift
Brenda's son Jamal founded the music platform SBTV in 2006 which helped launch Ed's career. Ed, who used to take drugs twice a day, said that it would be disrespectful to ever play around with substances again after Jamal's tragic death. The pop star confessed that he first started taking them in his mid-20s, and then gradually became hooked.
Last year, Ed broke down in tears as he was performing an intimate show with Apple Music Live at the Eventim Apollo in London. During the performance Ed admitted he 'wanted the world to stop' as he dedicated two songs to Jamal. Ed shared his grief and admitted to the audience: "I'm still not over it, I don't want to be."
He told the audience, according to the Daily Mail: "The last time I was in this venue was with my friend Jamal, to see a comedy show, and I've not been here since. The first time I ever played this song, I cried when I introduced it, I cried at the start, I cried at the end and... I'm going to cry now."
Brenda previously shared how Ed comforted her following Jamal's death as he “was literally at my house for a week, just looking after us”. “There wasn’t anything that he wasn’t sorting out and doing if we needed anything, and everybody has been so so wonderful and so supportive," she shared on Good Morning Britain.
