Life goes on even with the global coronavirus pandemic continuing to rage all over the world, whether one is a celebrity or a normal person. Life is certainly continuing for singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who is, reportedly, expecting his first child with wife Cherry Seaborn.
The Sun quotes a source as saying that the couple is expecting the baby to come this summer. Both Sheeran and Seaborn are said to be happy about the news but are keeping things low key.
The source claims that Sheeran focused on making a family after announcing that he was taking a break from music December of last year after spending two and a half years touring. The couple has also been able to successfully keep the pregnancy a secret thanks to the lockdown brought about by the global coronavirus pandemic.
With the date of delivery coming closer and closer, the source says the couple has had to tell the news to family and friends. Seaborn has, reportedly, told her closest friends about her pregnancy online.
In what seems like a confirmation of the news, the Daily Mail has pointed out that Seaborn was seen last March sporting what looked like a baby bump while at the Cambridge Hockey Club. Seaborn was watching a game and was eventually joined by Sheeran.
Sheeran and Seaborn aren’t the only celebrities to receive baby news in the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic. Harry Potter star Rupert Grint and his partner Georgia Groome confirmed they were expecting their first child in April of this year after Groome was spotted with a baby bump while shopping for lockdown supplies in London with Grint. Groome gave birth to the baby on May of this year.
It was also in May that acclaimed actor Jude Law was confirmed to be expecting his sixth child. The news was confirmed after his wife, Philipa Coan, was seen with a noticeable baby bump while going shopping in London during the United Kingdom’s coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Both Sheeran, Grint, and Law will be welcoming children in a world that has still not gotten the global coronavirus pandemic under control. According to the Aug. 11 situation report from the World Health Organization, there are now 19,936,210 confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide. Deaths caused by COVID-19 are now at 732,499 individuals.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update for Aug. 11 pegs the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 5,064,171 people. There are now 162,407 people in the United States that have died from COVID-19.