Beyoncé changes her email address every week, according to Ed Sheeran

If you ever spent your teenage years fruitlessly sending emails to [email protected] in the hopes of one day getting a response, you will be saddened by the news that Beyoncé in fact changes her email address every week, presumably to ward off any mad fans.

According to Ed Sheeran, who has just collaborated with the star on a remix of his single Perfect, he was given her contact details but was warned that they change often.

"I have an email address that I email [to get in touch with Beyoncé] that actually changes every week,” Sheeran told Entertainment Tonight. "She's very good at..."

"Hiding?" interviewer Keltie Knight suggested, to which Sheeran agreed, adding: "It's kind of what I inspire to be, I think."

Sheeran also revealed that the new collaboration had been in the works since the middle of 2017.

"Obviously she had twins [in June], and we finished [the song] in September, so I've been holding onto it since then.

He continued: "The original version of Perfect was just an acoustic guitar and she rung me up and was like, 'I don't know how you feel about this but I've taken all the instruments off it and it's just gonna be acoustic guitar,' and I was like, 'Ah that's great, because it used to be that!'

"Then when we got in together, it wasn't so much notes, it was very much like a back and forth thing," he continued. "Like, 'What'd you think of this?' Or 'What do you think of this?' and [we were] probably in the studio for four hours."

Sheeran's interest in Beyoncé's privacy will be unsurprising to long-time fans – the star having quit Twitter following criticism of his Glastonbury performance in July, and then quitting the site again later that month after his Game of Thrones cameo was widely mocked.

He told The Sun: "I've actually come off Twitter completely. I can't read it. I go on it and there's nothing but people saying mean things. The head-f--- for me has been trying to work out why people dislike me so much."