Ed Sheeran is one of the most talented singer/songwriters alive. He’s also incredibly kind, humble, and has a great eye and ear for talent. He’s worked with big-name artists like Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and BTS. Ed Sheeran’s most recent collaboration with KATSEYE came from his own fandom. “I heard @katseyeworld’s song Gnarly last year when I was in Mexico and loved it. Said I was a fan and reached out to them to see if I could write them a song. We’ve created Animal together, go check it out gang and hope you all love it,” Ed Sheeran shared on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) Ed Sheeran Shared a Behind-the-Scenes Look at His Collaboration with KATSEYE Ed Sheeran’s video clip shows him in the studio helping to create “Animal” along with KATSEYE. We see a tiny snip of the actual video featuring a cameo by none other than Demi Moore. “Animal” will appear on KATSEYE’s upcoming album Wild, dropping on August 14, 2026. Fans went straight to the comment section to let Ed Sheeran know just how much they love his KATSEYE collaboration. “The Eyekons forever appreciate and love you Ed! Thanks for giving this banger to the girls!” A fan wrote. This person agreed, writing, “thank u for making this absolute banger for katseye!!!” This person loved hearing something fresh. “Finally, a song for them that doesn’t sound like it mixed redbull, fourloko, and monster,” they wrote. Others noticed how well Ed Sheeran works with others. “Ed Sheeran singing the animal song would be a good solo for him but he wants katseye have it. Him singing definitely help of it sounds like it,” a fan noticed. This story’s featured image is by Earl Gibson III/Deadline via Getty Images

Paul Jackson wasn’t looking to be a hero as he drove down Interstate 5 last week. Among other errands, he was supposed to be picking up his wife’s birthday cake. Then he spotted a white SUV suddenly cutting across three lanes near Fife, Washington, and realized something was very wrong. Inside the SUV, as KCPQ-TV reported, the driver was experiencing a medical emergency. Slumped over the wheel with her eyes rolled back, she was unconscious as the vehicle sped down the highway. In the back seat, strapped into a car seat, was her young son—wide awake and terrified. The SUV had already struck another vehicle and was repeatedly scraping along the concrete divider, becoming a multi-car pileup waiting to happen with no one in control. An accident causes a traffic jam on a freeway. Photo credit: Tahamie Farooqui/Unsplash Jackson, of Roy, Washington, had exactly one tool at his disposal: his own car. “My rescue car, my Batmobile, is a Kia Forte,” he told KCPQ-TV. “Somebody had to do something.” He pulled alongside the runaway SUV, positioned his car so it could make contact, and used it to guide and pin the SUV against the concrete barrier until both vehicles came to a controlled stop. He then shifted the SUV into park, helped the frightened boy to safety, and stayed with the unconscious driver until first responders arrived. It came at a cost. His car sustained significant damage in the collision—the kind of crash most people spend their lives instinctively trying to avoid. Jackson drove straight into it on purpose. “It wasn’t something I really even thought about,” he said. “I just did it.” Two badly damaged cars after a collision. Photo credit: Photospirit/Canva He’s also quite a character. Jackson showed up to the moment in a leather vest, talks about his economy sedan like it’s crime-fighting equipment, and then had to deal with a very ordinary problem: he was late picking up his wife’s birthday cake. To prove he had a legitimate excuse, he texted her photos from the crash scene. The entire incident was captured on a cell-phone video by another motorist and later confirmed by the Washington State Patrol. A woman suffered a medical emergency in the worst possible place, her child was moments from catastrophe, and a stranger driving a Kia Forte decided the acceptable outcome was the one in which he wrecked his own car instead. He was right. Both survived because he didn’t hesitate. The post Man rams his Kia into a runaway SUV on I-5 to save a mother and child appeared first on Upworthy.

When Nina Salci pictured her wedding, she didn’t picture a venue. She pictured her childhood backyard—specifically the cabana her father had built there years earlier. It was where she’d taken her prom and graduation photos, the backdrop to many of the milestones that came before this one. So when she got engaged, she told her dad she wanted to get married there. He took that seriously. As Salci showed in a TikTok that’s been viewed millions of times, her father spent eight months getting the yard ready—watering, building, trimming, planting, fixing up the cabana, power-washing the deck, clearing branches, and weeding—all to turn the family backyard into the wedding venue she’d always imagined. “POV you told your dad you want to get married in your childhood backyard,” the text on the video reads, “so he spent 8 months watering, building, trimming, and planting to make the yard look exactly how I envisioned it for my big day.” @ninaasalci Dad if you see this.. you are my hero #weddingprep #wedding #bridaltiktok #bride #bridaltok #weddingtiktok #weddingtok #weddingplanning #backyardwedding ♬ Here With Me – d4vd The captioned tribute was simple: “Dad if you see this.. you are my hero.” Salci married Alejandro Franco there on December 16, 2022, in a Tuscan-garden-inspired ceremony, complete with an olive-oil-jar seating wall and chef’s stations for dinner. But it was the setting that made people cry in the comments. The dad in the video wasn’t just spending eight months landscaping. He’d built the cabana when she was young, and it had quietly served as the backdrop for nearly every major milestone in her life. The wedding was simply the latest. View this post on Instagram There’s something inspiring about forgoing an expensive gift or lavish trip and instead giving your time and energy. He spent most of a year on his hands and knees in the yard where she grew up, making sure that on her wedding day, the place that held so many of her memories looked exactly as she’d imagined it. That’s the kind of love that doesn’t announce itself. It just shows up every weekend with a trowel. The post She wanted to get married in her childhood backyard. Her dad spent 8 months rebuilding it for her. appeared first on Upworthy.

Jovanda Taylor had filled out more than 20 job applications by the time she walked into Maison de Lafayette. She and her boyfriend, Kevin Washington, had been living in their truck with their two dogs for over a month. Taylor, who is from New Orleans, had moved to Houston after her mother died. “I just wanted to start something new,” she told KATC. The plan fell apart on a technicality: her certification as a certified nursing assistant didn’t transfer across state lines, which meant the credential she had built a career on was worthless the moment she crossed into Texas. She and Washington found Houston too fast-paced and came back to Louisiana, where the work still didn’t materialize. A move and a miracle “We couldn’t find any work. We would go to food pantries. That was our excitement,” she said. They slept in the truck, rearranging it each night. “We would move all the front seats and position them so we would be able to sleep in. So we would put everything to the back, pad this out, and this will be our bedroom for the night.” They moved to Lafayette and she kept applying. Maison de Lafayette, a nursing and rehabilitation center, was the one that called back. “I was about to give up, but I continued to apply, and I got a call back from Maison de Lafayette,” she said. She cleaned herself up at a rest stop and went in. Wendy King, the hiring manager, noticed that Taylor had left the permanent address field blank. That omission is the kind of thing that ends a lot of applications quietly, without the applicant ever knowing why. Taylor decided to answer it directly instead. “I pulled her to the side and said, ‘I’m homeless, living in my truck, and I need help,'” Taylor said. A woman fills out a job application. Photo credit: lulian Catalin’s Images via Canva. King sat down with her. She had contact information for Terrance St. Julian, who runs a local nonprofit called Pay It Forward, Lending A Helping Hand, which works with unhoused residents in the area. Taylor called him. Between the nonprofit and the facility, the couple were put up in a hotel for a month. Taylor also got the job. She started the following Monday. Helping someone in need Terry Gros, an administrator at Maison de Lafayette, said the response was deliberate. “She was in dire straits. Obviously, she and her partner needed more than just a job; they needed a way to be safe. We asked what she needed, and we mobilized resources to support her.” “I’ve been trying so hard to land something,” Taylor said. “To walk in here and fill the void that we needed, just a big blessing.” King’s summary was shorter: “I’m so glad we gave Jovanda a chance.” Taylor and Washington are now looking for an apartment. The post She applied for a job while living in her truck. She left with the job and a place to sleep. appeared first on Upworthy.

A few weeks before the giveaway, a man walked into the McDonald’s on upper Main Street in Haverhill, Massachusetts, handed the cashier on duty a wad of cash, and said little more than that he wanted to pay for everyone’s meals until the money ran out. Then he left. Nobody got his name. The staff started using the money right away, then thought better of it and called the franchise owner. Christine Yee, who runs the restaurant with her father David, was not immediately moved. She was suspicious. “I was actually skeptical at first and became concerned the money might be counterfeit,” she told WHAV-TV. Several thousand dollars in cash from an anonymous walk-in is, reasonably, the kind of thing you check on. The Haverhill Police Department confirmed the bills were real. A McDonald’s in Times Square. Photo credit: Luciana Esquenazi/Unsplash Once she knew the gift was legitimate, Christine decided not to spend it quietly. She deposited the cash and took time to plan an event around it, which is how one man’s anonymous gesture turned into what she billed as “A Random Act of Kindness Day.” On a Wednesday afternoon between 1:30 and 5 p.m., anyone who walked up to the counter ate free. By the end, the Yees had given away 356 meals. A tray full of food from McDonald’s. Photo credit: krzhck/Unsplash Christine also did her homework on whether this sort of thing happens. “I checked in with McDonald’s corporate headquarters, and no one had ever heard of anything quite so generous,” she said. “We have customers in the drive-through regularly offer to pay for the car behind them, but that’s just one order.” For the event itself, Christine brought in Grimace and had cards printed to hand out with each meal, with red and yellow hearts on them, explaining where the free food had come from: “You have just received a random act of kindness. An anonymous Haverhill neighbor has paid for your McDonald’s meal today. We hope this brightened your day. If you feel compelled, pay it forward to someone in your own way.” Christine had been a little nervous about how the day would go, particularly whether people would take advantage. They didn’t. Customers ordered normally. The Yees added a contribution of their own, donating to Ronald McDonald House charities. As for the man who started it, they never learned who he was or why he did it. “Love was felt throughout the Haverhill community,” Christine told WBTS-TV, “and every customer was asked to pay it forward in their own special way.” The post A stranger handed a McDonald’s cashier a wad of cash and asked her to feed everyone until it ran out appeared first on Upworthy.