If they were worried about fuelling relationship rumours Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran certainly showed no sign of it as they performed a flirty duet on the season finale of Britain's Got Talent.
The Nashville girl was positively beaming as she sang with the ginger haired Suffolk boy about a childhood romance in their co-written song Everything Has Changed, on Saturday's televised episode.
The duo's effortless rendition of the nostalgic song comes after Ed was recently spotted leaving Taylor's hotel room at four in the morning, although he insists they're just friends.
The 23-year-old songstress assumed Ed's signature throaty vocal style for the acoustic set as she kicked off the performance with a series of dramatic hand gestures.
Taylor set her smouldering blues eyes directly into the sight line of the rolling television cameras as she wore her straw coloured hair in a ponytail.
The Love Story singer was pretty in a polka dot summer dress as she clutched her steel stringed guitar while belting out the lyrically complex ballad.
Ed, for his part, appeared more reserved as he strummed his way through the song.
Once it was his turn to take over the lead vocals Taylor hopped over to his microphone, rocking back and forth as he crooned.
With his trademark shaggy 'do covering his pale blue eyes, the 22-year-old wore a blue long sleeve shirt and baggy jeans as his glamorous partner stood tall in heeled dancing shoes.
Once the rendition was completed Taylor said: 'That song was from my album.'
To which presenters Ant and Dec replied, 'What did you think of the final?' referring to the completion of the BGT season.
Taylor said, 'It was amazing. We have our favourites – I’m obsessed with Attraction and Pre-Skool,' as Ed added, ‘I really like Jordan.’
Taylor would have been pleased as punch when shadow theatre group Attraction won the competition.
In the official music video for Everything Has Changed the duo enlisted a couple of cute mini-me lookalike children to play out their lyrical storyline.
The children enact the words of the song, about a boy and girl blossoming into something romantic before everything starts changing.
Throughout the stars throw in hints of themselves, from the girlie dresses worn by the young Taylor Swift lookalike, to Ed's mini-me playing guitar to the girl in a music lesson as the rest of the children run riot.
In a twist at the end, both Taylor and Ed turn up to the school separately to pick up the children and act as each child's parent.
The boy comes running into Sheeran's tattooed arms, while the girl is greeted by Taylor, before they are taken home.
Both Ed and Taylor catch each other's eyes at the school gate and smile at each other before walking off separately.
The pair have previously been romantically linked with speculation mounting over the status of their relationship.
However despite the pair seeming very close, with Ed even having a tattoo tribute to the pretty blonde, he insists they are just friends.
The romance rumours were cranked up a notch recently after he was spotting leaving her hotel room in the early hours.
Speaking about that night, which took place before the Brit awards, in an interview for New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ, Sheeran said: 'I did go to her hotel, I did stay there 'til four and I did leave in the same clothes.
'But I was playing her my new record. It was strictly that kind of thing.
'Literally, I went in there and we passed the guitar back and forth and played songs to each other.'
Asked whether he stole a kiss he responded: 'I'm a professional.'
He continued: 'The thing that impressed me with the media is that because they wrote about it, my mates believed it.
'And my mates are texting me being like 'is it true?' so I said it wasn't but the fact that people can believe it makes me feel like a bit of a stud, you know?
'I've got to be honest because one of my best friends did date her. I'm not that kind of guy. But the fact that people believed it impressed me a little bit.'
And he pointed out it would be foolhardy to date Swift because they were due to travel together for her Red Tour across the U.S.
'Six months on the road with someone, that could get a bit awkward.'
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