Ed Sheeran wishes terminally-ill fan the best of luck on his wedding day, telling him: 'Drink a lot, dance a lot and have a lot of sex'
Couple said the video was 'just as good as him being at the wedding'
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Your support makes all the difference.Ed Sheeran left a typically awkward, if touching, message to a terminally ill fan and his wife on their wedding day.
The singer, who is currently on tour in New Zealand, recorded a message for 23-year-old Jack Jordan and his childhood sweetheart Laura Cant, 24, who married earlier this week after hearing about their story.
“Hey Jack and Laura, Ed here! Sorry I can't be there, I'm in New Zealand just doing a tour," he says in the video.
"Hope you have an amazing wedding. Drink a lot, dance a lot and have a lot of sex."
Mr Jordan had been in remission from leukaemia after two years of treatment, including chemotherapy and blood transfusions, when the disease returned and doctors told him he had only a few weeks left.
He proposed shortly afterwards and the pair married in Torbay Hospital Chapel with their friends and family in attendance.
“When we were told about the message I looked at Jack and said ‘My God, this is just on another level’,” Mrs Jordan told the Torquay Herald Express.
“The video is funny and just as good as him being at the wedding.
“We wanted to play it at the chapel but there was no signal so we showed it to everyone when we got home,” she added.
Speaking of the day, Mrs Jordan said: “Our wedding day was amazing, we will never forget, it was the happiest day of our lives.”
She added: “When he was given just weeks to live we had no time to wait, I’m so happy that I can call Jack my husband now, we are soul mates and it seemed like the perfect thing to do.”
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