Ed Sheeran was forced to take a break from recording a podcast interview after he got a call from the Home office.
The government officials were checking whether the musician was complying with quarantine rules as he had just got back from the US.
Covid-19 travel rules state that anyone travelling from a country on the amber list must self-isolate at home for 10 days and pay for two PCR tests, one on day two and one on day eight.
But Sheeran was in the middle of a remote interview with Harry Potter actors Oliver and James Phelps for their podcast, Normal Not Normal, when he got the check in.
When his phone rang, he could be seen in the video recording of the podcast saying: “Wait, wait, wait. Government, government.”
Although his conversation was edited out of the podcast, a message on the screen explained that he was in “quarantine” and “expecting a call from the Home Office.”
The artist’s manager Stuart Camp, who was also on the call, joked when the singer returned and said: “It’s like being called by your teacher.”
