Love/Hate star misses season premiere for Ed Sheeran gig

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While most of the country were glued to their screens last night to watch the unfolding of the season premiere of Love/Hate, one of the stars of the show had something else in penciled in his diary.

Laurence Kinlan - who plays Elmo in the hit series - missed out on the series-five opener as he was too busy rubbing shoulders with Ed Sheeran at the 3Arena.

We recently learned that the Thinking Out Loud singer was a big fan of the show and to his delighted received a signed box-set from Ryan Tubridy on Friday night’s Late Late Show.To thank the cast he then casually invited them to one of his sold out gigs in Dublin over the weekend.

And it looks like Laurence took the star up on his offer - even nabbing a photo with the singer moments before his took to the stage.

Missing Love/Hate tonight to see this man @edsheeran legend!! pic.twitter.com/3PODEG8PJQ

— Laurence Kinlan (@laurencekinlan) October 5, 2014

I can't wait to see Love/Hate 2moro. @edsheeran is not only a gent, he's an incredible performer. The mans a genius!! What an amazing show

— Laurence Kinlan (@laurencekinlan) October 5, 2014

Fair play Ed!