KETCHUP-crazy Ed Sheeran has ordered aides to carry an ­emer­gen­cy bottle of the sauce at all times.

The 26-year-old Perfect singer loves the bright red condiment so much that he even has a tattoo in tribute to it.

1 The singer is sick of restaurants not serving the popular condiment Credit: PA:Press Association

And he has grown tired of being caught without it when dining at high-end restaurants which deem themselves too posh to serve it.

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A music source said: “Ed’s made no secret of his Heinz Ketchup obsession and has run out of patience with going to places that don’t serve it while he’s touring.

“He’s made it a duty of key members of his entourage to carry a bottle wherever he goes so he can have it with everything from his morning sausage butty to upmarket dinners.”

Ed said last month that, if made PM, he’d make ketchup compulsory “in all places with chips”.