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Halina Watts

Noel Fielding sells Ed Sheeran portrait for £912 - but he looks like a baked bean

Bake Off host Noel Fielding has drawn a portrait of Ed Sheeran as an orange blob – and flogged it for £912.

It is one of several dotty daubs the TV star, 47, has sold online for nearly £1,000 each.

His Mighty Brush has turned the Sex Pistols into blobs as well as the late Michael Jackson, who is an orange blob in the 70s and a white one in the 90s – highlighting how his skin changed from black to white.

An art insider said: “A child could do a ­better job. Still, he’s managed to make a ­fortune from them. Good on him.”

But Noel isn’t the only star to rake in the pounds from his pencils.

Comedian Vic Reeves sells paintings from £300 upwards, having studied at the Sir John Cass School of Art in London in the mid-80s.

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood is well known as a talented painter and raised £17,000 for NHS charities by auctioning pictures.

Comedian Joe Lycett painted an uncanny ­portrait of lockdown health advisor Chris Whitty, captioned: “Wash your filthy pig hands”.

And ex-Bond star Pierce Brosnan once raised more than $1million for charity by selling a portrait of singer Bob Dylan.

He said: “I’m self-taught. I was a commercial artist when I left school but luckily I became an actor. I’ve painted for many years.”

And few know that Rocky legend Sylvester Stallone has been painting for ­almost as long as he’s been acting – and regards it as his main talent.

Fellow action star Lucy Liu, best known for Ally McBeal and the Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels films, is an abstract artist.

And Pirates of the Caribbean actor Johnny Depp is also a gifted painter who has portrayed people ranging from Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando.

Singer Joni Mitchell dropped out of art school aged 19 but her impressive paintings feature on her album covers.

And Fleetwood Mac front woman Stevie Nicks was initiated into the world of art by a close pal who was suffering from leukaemia, and now dedicates her ­paintings and drawings to the friend who lost her battle.

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