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Elton John has revealed the unusual gift Ed Sheeran gave him for his birthday this year. The two have been friends for several years and Sheeran had already been recruited from Elton’s management country early in his career.
Speaking on Hit 109.9’s Carrie and Tommy Show, Elton said they both played tricks on each other and remained good friends, despite Sheeran changing the leadership team a few years ago.
“For my birthday this year, he gave me a giant marble penis. … It’s really big; it is beautifully done. It’s solid marble.
Elton, 74, joked that he didn’t know why he got the gift: “I don’t know if it’s because I’ve always been a jerk or not.”
The hosts asked him where he was keeping it, and he said he was somewhere out of sight of his two young sons.
“I suggested to David [Furnish] that I should put it in the garden. And he said, ‘No, we have kids.’ “
He is now “hidden in an area of the house where” children will not see him.
“But it’s a beautifully made penis. What can I tell you? What do we buy from the man who has everything? A beautiful marble penis!
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Elsewhere on the show, Elton also revealed that he spoke to Sheeran about his sense of style and introduced it to Donatella Versace so he could spruce up his notoriously scruffy appearance.
Sheeran isn’t the first singer to give Elton a phallic-inspired gift. In 2017, Elton revealed that his friend Eminem (with whom he played at the 2001 Grammys) gave him and Furnish diamond-encrusted cock rings as a gift for their civil partnership in 2005.
“It shows you how homophobic he is,” Elton said of Eminem’s gift on The Graham Norton Show. “We had two diamond encrusted cock rings on a velvet cushion,” he said, before adding: “They have remained unused.”
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