Ed Sheeran adores Delta Goodrem, and the feeling is mutual.

When Goodrem stopped by Nova’s The Maddy Rowe Show this week, the host couldn’t help but dig up some old, but timely, gossip. On a tour down under in 2015, Sheeran confirmed he had a teen crush on the Australian singer and songwriter, reportedly describing her as a “dream woman,” and showing some interest in meeting her someday.

Sheeran is currently playing stadiums around Australia for his Loop Tour. The right time, apparently, for Rowe to remind Goodrem of her Ed Sheeran-shaped fan.

“I appreciate your research,” she quipped. “It’s really an honor of mine that I carry around with me.” Delta went on to say, “I just love Ed Sheeran. and I think that it takes me to a place of just, you know, I’m totally just honored, humbled. He’s one of the best songwriters in the entire world, So I think as a fellow songwriter, it makes me feel just really happy, and that’s such an honor. He’s the best.  We got to go to his concert on Friday and go and say hi, and I just think that Australia loves him. The world loves him. But I also have an extra love here for Ed Sheeran.”

Delta went on to cover Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” in 2021, during the pandemic, but the two stars haven’t collaborated. And no, folks. There’s no funny business. Delta married her long-time partner, musician Matthew Copley, in a private ceremony last June in Malta. Sheeran wedded his childhood friend and former schoolmate, Cherry Seaborn, in 2019, and the happy couple have two kids.

Goodrem is a superstar in Australia, with 12 ARIA Awards and five No. 1 albums including 2003’s Innocent Eyes, which logged a staggering 29 weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, making it the highest-selling debut album in Australian recorded music history. The album won seven ARIA Awards, was the highest selling album in Australia for two successive years, and yielded five No. 1 singles.

In 2023, after a decades-long association with Sony Music, Delta became an independent artist and label boss, overseeing ATLED Records.

In her chat with the commercial Nova network, Delta also recounted her career, her legacy and the good fortune of writing a song for Celine Dion’s Taking Chances album. “I remember getting a call and they said ‘Oh, Celine wants to sing you know, the song you’ve written’ and I remember physically jumping in the middle of the street by myself on the phone, just jumping up and down and then getting to sort of zoom in while she was recording it and that was pretty cool,” she remarks. That song was “Eyes on Me.”

Sheeran’s 17-date Loop tour of Australia and New Zealand, got underway Friday, Jan. 16 at Auckland’s GO Media Stadium.

The trek, produced by Frontier Touring, continues Friday, Feb. 20, with the first show in a three-night stand at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, followed by a run of dates at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium and Adelaide Oval. Fans in Brisbane (Westfield Chermside) and Melbourne (369-371 Lonsdale Street) can nab tour merch, exclusive, one-off designs, vinyl and more at special pop-up stores.