Ed Sheeran has revealed Taylor Swift’s tongue-in-cheek dig at her long-time rival Kanye West in an old photo.
The Thinking Out Loud singer, 34, has been sharing snaps from 2015 from his former phone on a new Instagram account called Teddy’s Old Phone.
Sheeran delighted fans by posting his friend Swift’s gift to him - a jam jar with a note that shaded West’s infamous interruption of her MTV Video Music Awards speech in 2009.
At the ceremony, West, 47, had stormed the stage during Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video for her song You Belong With Me, saying into the microphone: “I’ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”
Grammy winner Swift, 35, wrote on a jar of jam addressed to Sheeran: “Yo Ed- I’m really happy 4 you and I’m gonna let u finish but this is the best JAM OF ALL TIME. -T.”
Sheeran shared his long-time collaborator’s present on his new account earlier this month and quipped in the caption: “It was pretty good jam.”
Fans flooded the comments section with their praise for the gag, with one writing: “I REMEMBER THIS!!! ICONIC.”
“SHES GOT JOKES,” another added, while a third posted: “Tay really used that line EVERYWHERE.”
Sheeran launched the account after going through his old phone to gather evidence for a copyright lawsuit involving his 2014 song, Thinking Out Loud.
The singer said looking through his old photos “felt like a time capsule” and he felt immersed in “a time of life that I was in, and living at that time in 2015”. Sheeran has now released the song, Old Phone, inspired by the experience.
Swift was just 19 when West interrupted her VMAs win onstage and told reporters after the show: “I was standing onstage, and I was really excited because I had just won the award.
“And then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage and then I wasn’t so excited anymore.”
West apologised several times to the Tortured Poets Department star and the pair appeared to make up.
In 2016, he sparked outrage when he released the song, Famous, containing the lyrics “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, why? I made that b**** famous.”
The Donda mogul claimed he had approval from Swift for the line, something the singer strongly denied.
“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single Famous on her Twitter account,” her representative said at the time.
“She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that b***h famous’.”
West’s then-wife Kim Kardashian posted a video of a phone call between West and Swift, in which the popstar seemed to consent to the song - before it later emerged Swift had not been told all the lines.
The Shake It Off singer has previously opened up about the pair’s feud, where she claimed it "took her down psychologically", in an interview with TIME magazine.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” she said in 2023.
“That took me down psychologically to a place I've never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn't leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls.”
