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Ed Sheeran Loses Hundreds of Thousands of Followers Amid Macklemore Tour Row

The British singer has shed nearly half a million Instagram followers since rapper Macklemore was dropped as his Loop Tour support act over pro-Palestine remarks. Sheeran tearfully apologised in Philadelphia, calling Israel's campaign in Gaza "catastrophic and unjustifiable", after all his opening acts quit in solidarity with Macklemore.