Ed Sheeran’s third album has been burst by filthy hashtag

The Suffolk-born superstar, 26, has been bouncing around everywhere to promote the release of Divide, which his Twitter followers have been excitedly chattering about too.

But when someone kicked off a hashtag referring to a hypothetical internet Ed Sheeran party, and it began to trend, things took an X-rated turn.

Yep, lots of people have been starting to notice that #SheerAnalBumParty looks like an advert for a VERY different kind of party.

We’re talking about Bellinis, canapes and butt stuff.

Ed may be a bit of an expert on this area considering one of his lyrics on Divide goes: ‘I heard he’s on a new diet and watches what he eats / He’s got his eyebrows plucked and his a**ehole bleached.’

Hmm. Who’s that then? Is he invited?

Anyway, Twitter was having a great time at the shindig.

Absolutely crying #sheeranalbumparty

— Paul McLaughlin (@123podrag) March 15, 2017

#sheeranalbumparty pic.twitter.com/mr0sCvjXMu

— Minami Sumi (@MinamiSumi) March 15, 2017

Sing Shape of You three times in the mirror and Ed Sheeran appears behind you and tries to eat your butt

— DeShawn  (@DeShawnstantine) March 14, 2017

Er, that last tweet was probably unrelated, sorry.

This isn’t the first time an anal bum party has been held on Twitter in honour of a British popster.

Susan Boyle had one in 2013, under the heading #susanalbumparty, though arguably Ed’s is more explicit because of the sheer anal.

FFS capitalise your tags properly #SheerAnalBumPartyso people don't think you're the kind of genetic flotsam that listens to Ed Sheeran

— Michael Wright (@posh_mike) March 15, 2017

Some are worried these two incidents will set a terrifying precedent.

In the wake of #susanalbumparty and#sheeranalbumparty, just pray that there isn't a posthumous Terry Wogan record any time soon.

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) March 15, 2017

Sadly Ed probably doesn’t care much about his silly anal bum party, because his album is probably going to be the year’s best-seller.

The bearded crooner in February (Picture: Isabel Infantes/PA)

He’s dominating the entire chart at the moment and shifted a three quarters of a million album copies after a week.

Writer: Olivia Waring for Metro.co.uk