Ed Sheeran and Jimmy Fallon Cheer for Knicks Courtside in NYC

Ed Sheeran was spotted mingling with Jimmy Fallon at the Knicks game in New York on Wednesday.

The singer, 34, and comedian, 51, were spotted in the front row as they cheered on the New York Knicks against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden. 

For the game, Ed looked stylish in a cream Corteiz national anthem hoodie with camouflage cargo trousers. 

He completed his laid-back look with Air Jordan 1 Off-White Retro High NRG, which are worth a whopping £2,000.

Meanwhile, Jimmy opted for a black Celine jacket with a pair of smart grey trousers. 

The pair appeared in great spirits as they watched the Knicks defeat the Cavaliers 119-111. 

Earlier in the evening, Ed was seen arriving at the venue as he exited his car. 

His outing comes after the singer revealed he’s relocating to America for the foreseeable future. 

The English singer is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but revealed in a podcast interview that he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour. 

Ed, who has an impressive property portfolio worth a staggering £70million, recently snapped up a sprawling £9million home in New York. 

Yet he spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three.

Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast, he shared: ‘I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.

‘I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.’

Ed did not specify where in the States he would be moving to.  

Yet he previously said that a move to the States could be on the cards because he wanted to transition into country music.  

Ed said earlier this year: ‘When you transition to country, you can’t transition back.

‘Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.’

Ed’s decision to move abroad comes just two months after he sparked backlash for claiming he identifies ‘culturally as Irish’ despite being born and raised in England. 

While the singer-songwriter was brought up in Suffolk, his father John hails from Belfast, meaning he spent much of his childhood in Ireland.

Opening up on his heritage on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Ed explained: ‘I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with. 

‘My dad’s family is … he’s got seven brothers and sisters. We’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland.

‘My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.’

The Galway Girl hitmaker went on to say that he was ‘really proud’ of his Irish cultural roots, and that he didn’t feel that he had to ‘just be British’, as it was down to ‘how you feel’.

He said: ‘I don’t overthink it but I do feel like my culture is something that I’m really proud of and grew up with and want to express.

‘And I feel like just because I was born in Britain doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to just be [British], there’s loads of people I know that are half this or quarter this.

‘I don’t think there’s any rules to it. It should be how you feel and how you were raised and what you lean into.’

And when asked whether he gets ‘a lot of love’ in Ireland, the chart-topping star also praised the country as being ‘my second home’.

He said: ‘I’d say it’s basically my second home, musically. I’d say Ireland is the place that I am most successful musically.’