“I Like It” – Ed Sheeran Defends His Lion Tattoo

Ed Sheeran has taken to Twitter to defend his lion tattoo.

The singer sent fans into a bit of a frenzy earlier this week when he showed off the latest inking, halfway through completion.

Halfway and ouch

A photo posted by @teddysphotos on Aug 11, 2015 at 2:36am PDT

Since then there have been a lot negative comments aimed in the Thinking Out Loud star’s direction to which he has now responded.  

All this kerfuffle over a tattoo. If it was black and white saying a clever phrase in a language I can’t speak no one would’ve said anything — Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) August 12, 2015

It’s not the first weird tattoo I’ve got and it won’t be the last, but I like all of them. I’m also eating a bowl of pasta now so byeziez x

— Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) August 12, 2015

He also directly tweeted Keane’s Tom Chaplin who wrote: “Please tell me this is a prank. Cos if it isn’t, @edsheeran has a really bad picture of a lion on his chest FOREVER.”

Ed replied: “I like it and that’s the only opinion that matters.”