“Honestly I know I wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for one of my best friends who took me to pubs and taught me to make a good cup of tea and taught me everything I know about the UK,” blubbed Taylor Swift as she scooped the Best International Solo Female award.

“I started out playing King’s College [in London] and eight years later I’m getting ready to play Hyde Park,” she said backstage. “It’s like… what?”

But the star’s decision to dedicate the award to Sheeran, who won two Brit awards at the show himself, didn’t seem to impress his girlfriend.

It got the fans speculating…

Ed picked up the award for Best British Solo Male and Mastercard British Album of the Year.