Taylor Swift appeared to have met her match in Joe Alwyn, however their practically six-year relationship — saved largely out of the highlight — reportedly resulted in April 2023. Shortly after, she had a quick romance with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy earlier than shifting on with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Travis Kelce, a relationship that has captivated followers and media alike.
Swift’s love life has lengthy been a popular culture obsession, and we’re breaking down her full courting historical past right here.
Travis Kelce
In July 2023, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish revealed on his New Heights podcast that he had tried — and failed — to satisfy Taylor backstage at certainly one of her Eras Tour live shows, even placing his cellphone quantity on a friendship bracelet for her. The 2 didn’t really join till September 2023, when Taylor started attending his soccer video games.
From there, their relationship shortly grew to become one of popular culture’s most-watched romances. In October 2023, Taylor was noticed cheering alongside Travis’ mother, Donna Kelce, at a Chiefs sport, and the pair have been later photographed holding fingers in New York Metropolis after making shock cameos on Saturday Evening Dwell. In November 2023, Travis traveled to Argentina to observe Taylor carry out on the Eras Tour, the place she famously altered the lyrics to “Karma” to sing, “Karma is the man on the Chiefs, coming straight residence to me,” earlier than operating into his arms for a post-show kiss.
In early 2024, Travis flew to Australia and Singapore to assist Taylor throughout her tour, and he or she returned the gesture by attending the Chiefs’ playoff video games, together with their 2024 Tremendous Bowl win, the place they shared a celebratory on-field kiss. The couple has continued to make headlines for his or her globe-spanning romance, mixing NFL moments with Eras Tour appearances in a method that has followers utterly hooked.
Matty Healy
Taylor and Matty have been first reported to be an merchandise on Might 3, 2023 by The Solar, and that was adopted up by affirmation from an Leisure Tonight supply. “Taylor and Matty like one another,” the insider claimed “Taylor has a crush on Matty and they’re having a very good time hanging out. Matty additionally thinks Taylor is superior and extremely proficient, too. They dated briefly prior to now.” The musicians have been first linked in 2014, however for a brief period of time.
Matty attended all six of Taylor’s Nashville and Philadelphia Eras Tour reveals, and was even seen getting together with Taylor’s longtime bestie Gigi Hadid from the V.I.P. tent at a present in Tennessee. He was then videotaped spending time with Taylor’s different pal, Blake Energetic, and her two children, James and Inez, at a Pennsylvania present. It seems that Matty even had the stamp of approval from Taylor’s dad and mom, as he was additionally seen chatting it up together with her dad at certainly one of her reveals.
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Moreover, the pair was noticed out and about collectively a number of instances since Matty’s first look in Nashville to assist Taylor. The “Wildest Desires” singer and “About You” hitmaker have been reportedly photographed for the primary time collectively on Might 7 in a chauffeured black SUV in Nashville, which could be seen right here. They have been then noticed “cuddling and kissing” throughout a lunch rendezvous with their mutual producer pal, Jack Antonoff, at New York Metropolis’s Casa Cipriani on Might 11. Taylor and Matty fueled rumors that they have been collaborating on music once they have been seen leaving Electrical Girl Studios in New York Metropolis on Might 15 collectively. Whereas they didn’t maintain fingers, Matty gave the impression to be guiding Taylor together with his arm behind her again.
Neither Taylor nor Matty confirmed their romance or reported breakup. An individual near the couple claimed they went their separate methods resulting from their schedules and compatibility points. “Taylor and Matty broke up. They’re each extraordinarily busy and realized they’re probably not appropriate with one another,” the person instructed Leisure Tonight on June 5, 2023. “Taylor’s pals need what’s greatest for her and aren’t shocked that their relationship fizzled out since she lately bought out of a long-term relationship.”
Joe Alwyn
Joe, a rising British actor, and the “Converse Now” songstress first crossed paths on the 2016 Met Gala, when Taylor was nonetheless with Irish DJ Calvin Harris. Taylor famously wrote about their first time seeing one another in her 2017 tune, “Gown”, which is off her fiery album, Fame. “That they had a lot in widespread and fell in love in a protected bubble whereas she was retreating from the world throughout Fame,” PEOPLE‘s supply famous of the beginning of their love story. “Then the pandemic hit, they usually have been locked down collectively and in a position to proceed rising their relationship on this insulated method. However he didn’t actually ‘know’ her but exterior of that bubble.”
Taylor and Joe have been noticed in public collectively a handful of instances all through their romance, together with on a Bahamas trip throughout which they have been photographed smooching within the attractive Caribbean waters. Their relationship largely made headlines once they would make a uncommon remark about each other. In 2020, as an illustration, Taylor admitted she was “falling in love with somebody who had a extremely splendidly regular, balanced, grounded life” throughout her 2020 documentary, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana. She additionally instructed Paul McCartney her and Joe’s secret for sustaining a balanced and quiet life was all about attempting to copy “normalcy” any method they may. “Whether or not that’s deciding the place to stay, who to hang around with, when to not take an image — the concept of privateness feels so unusual to attempt to clarify, however it’s actually simply looking for bits of normalcy,” she stated of their 2020 Rolling Stone cowl story.
Taylor named Joe publicly for the primary time in her 2020 documentary, Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Periods. First, she confirmed that they labored on her tune, “Exile”, collectively, on which he used a pseudonym: William Bowery. She then complimented his musical capacity. “Joe performs piano fantastically, and he’s at all times simply taking part in and making issues up and sort of creating issues,” she defined as she spoke concerning the tune’s creation. “It was fairly apparent that it needs to be a duet ’trigger he’s bought such a low voice and it sounded actually good sung down there and in that register.” In 2021, Taylor thanked Joe when accepting her third Grammy for Album Of The Yr for Folklore and stated he’s the primary individual she performs songs for.
Tom Hiddleston
Earlier than getting with Joe, Taylor dated English actor Tom Hiddleston for just a few months following her cut up from Calvin Harris. They have been first linked once they have been photographed making out on the seashore close to Taylor’s Rhode Island seashore home in June 2016. The pair weren’t afraid to be seen collectively, and on July 4, Tom rocked an “I [heart] T.S.” tee, as seen right here. That very same month, he denied that his and Taylor’s love was for present. “Nicely, um. How greatest to place this?” he instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “The reality is that Taylor Swift and I are collectively, and we’re very completely satisfied. Thanks for asking.”
Nonetheless, by August 2016, the new couple had reportedly gone their separate methods. They look like on good phrases, per Tom’s 2017 interview with GQ through which he had nothing however good issues to say concerning the Grammy Award-winning musician. “Taylor is a tremendous lady,” he stated. “She’s beneficiant and sort and beautiful, and we had the perfect time.”
Taylor’s tune 2017 tune “Getaway Automobile” is regarded as about Tom and the way she used him to flee one other relationship. “The ties have been black, the lies have been white, in shades of gray and candlelight, I wished to depart him, I wanted a cause,” she sings.
Calvin Harris
Taylor was with the “Really feel So Shut” hitmaker earlier than her summer time fling with Tom. They dated for one 12 months between 2015 and 2016. Round their one-year anniversary, Taylor known as their romance “magical” whereas talking to Vogue in April 2016. Sadly, they broke up just a few months later.
Though they appeared to half methods on good phrases, issues modified when Taylor switched her pseudonym, Nils Sjoberg, to her actual identify on the writing credit for Calvin and Rihanna‘s viral hit, “This Is What You Got here For”. He then took to Twitter to air his frustration concerning the ordeal. “I wrote the music, produced the tune, organized it and lower the vocals, although. And, initially, she wished it saved secret, therefore the pseudonym,” he wrote in a sequence of since-deleted tweets, per PEOPLE. “Hurtful to me at this level that her and her group would go to this point out of their approach to try to make ME look dangerous at this stage, although.”
“I determine in case you’re completely satisfied in your new relationship it’s best to give attention to that as an alternative of attempting to tear your ex bf down for one thing to do,” he slammed in one other tweet. “I do know you’re off tour and also you want somebody new to try to bury like Katy [Perry] ETC however I’m not that man, sorry. I gained’t enable it.” Regardless of being upset, Calvin additionally complemented Taylor’s writing.
Harry Types
Taylor reportedly started courting English musician Harry Types (whereas he was nonetheless with One Course) after they met at an award present in 2012. They dated for a couple of 12 months. The exes are definitely on good phrases, as they’ve been seen chatting with one another and cheering one another on at award reveals on just a few events. Taylor was notably filmed standing throughout Harry’s complete acceptance speech for the 2023 Grammy for Greatest Pop Vocal Album. Followers imagine a number of of Taylor’s songs are written concerning the Don’t Fear Darling actor, together with 2015’s “Type” and 2022’s “Maroon.”
📹 | Taylor Swift clapping for Harry Types win for Greatest Pop Vocal Album on the #GRAMMYs https://t.co/oVpR6xdjOd
— Taylor Swift Information (@TSwiftNZ) February 6, 2023
Conor Kennedy
Taylor was linked to Conor Kennedy, Robert Kennedy‘s grandson, in the course of the summer time of 2012. Though she by no means confirmed their romance, she admitted her 2012 Pink tune, “Starlight”, was impressed by Conor’s grandparents after she noticed an previous {photograph} of them. “It instantly made me consider like how a lot enjoyable they will need to have had that evening,” Swift instructed The Wall Road Journal in Oct. 2012. “So I simply sort of wrote that tune from that place, probably not realizing how they met or something like that.”
Jake Gyllenhaal
It’s no secret that Taylor and Jake Gyllenhaal dated, as certainly one of her most iconic songs of all time, “All Too Nicely,” is reportedly concerning the heartbreak ensuing from the downfall of their relationship. The tune has many parallels to their relationship and Jake’s life, akin to their age hole (which was addressed in 2022’s “All Too Nicely (10 Minute Model) (Taylor’s Model) (From The Vault)”) and visiting her love curiosity’s sister’s home. Jake has a sister named Maggie. The ten-minute model of “All Too Nicely” additionally accuses the love curiosity of ditching her on her twenty first birthday, which is once they have been an merchandise.
Nonetheless, Taylor has by no means confirmed the tune’s inspiration and Jake is bound the tune has “nothing to do with” him. “It’s about her relationship together with her followers,” the Los Angeles-born actor instructed Esquire in Feb. 2022. “It’s her expression. Artists faucet into private experiences for inspiration, and I don’t begrudge anybody that.”
Though their relationship was temporary and by no means superior out of 2012, it has made an enduring impression on Swifties.
John Mayer
John Mayer dated the “Willow” hitmaker between 2009 and 2010 after collaborating together with her on his 2009 single “Half of My Coronary heart”. He has since gained the prize as Taylor’s most disliked boyfriend by her loyal followers because of the method he’s reportedly portrayed in her songs about him. For example, there’s a tune titled “Pricey John” on her 2010 album, Converse Now. Within the tune, Taylor addressed their 12-year age hole and his supposed wrongdoing by sorrowfully belting, “I see all of it now that you simply’re gone / Don’t you assume I used to be too younger to be messed with? / The woman within the costume cried the entire method residence”.
John himself believes the lyrics are about him and even defended himself towards the “humiliating” tune in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone. “It made me really feel horrible. As a result of I didn’t deserve it,” he defined. “I’m fairly good at taking accountability now, and I by no means did something to deserve that. It was a extremely awful factor for her to do.” Taylor has by no means confirmed the inspiration behind the tune.
John can also be regarded as on the middle of her 2022 Midnights bonus observe, “Would’ve, Might’ve, Ought to’ve”, which sings a couple of regretted love when she was 19 years previous — the age she was when she was seeing the Final Prepare Dwelling hitmaker.
Taylor Lautner
The period of “Taylor Squared”. Taylor and the Twilight star dated for just a few months in 2009 after they performed a pair within the 2012 romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. The exes are on good phrases, and Taylor and his spouse (whose identify can also be Taylor) even attended the famous person’s in-demand Eras Tour.
Plus, throughout a deep dialog on the actor and his spouse’s podcast in Feb. 2023, he talked about his deepest remorse entails his ex. “[My biggest regret is] most likely the 2009 VMAs, once I offered the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye [West] factor was not a skit,” he instructed his spouse, referring to the viral second throughout which the troubled rapper stormed the stage whereas Taylor was accepting her first-ever Video Music Awards win and stated Beyonce deserved the trophy.
Lucas Until
Lucas Until starred within the Pennsylvania native’s 2009 music video for “You Belong With Me” they usually dated afterward, however briefly. “There was no friction as a result of we have been too good. We simply actually each appreciated one another,” Lucas recalled to MTV in 2009. “Most relationships work out ’trigger you get alongside and you then don’t, and you then make up and it’s passionate, and with us, I actually simply appreciated her as a pal. That’s the one cause that didn’t work out.”
Joe Jonas
Taylor and Joe Jonas have been collectively for about three months in 2008. Taylor infamously revealed throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present that the Jonas Brothers member broke up together with her in a 25-second cellphone name. “Once I discover that one that is correct for me, he’ll be great, and once I have a look at that individual, I’m not even gonna be capable to bear in mind the boy who broke up with me over the cellphone in 25 seconds once I was 18,” she acknowledged. She later confirmed the boy who dumped her over the cellphone was Joe whereas internet hosting Saturday Evening Dwell in 2009. The scenario impressed her 2008 Fearless tune, “Ceaselessly & At all times”.
Happily, Taylor and Joe are on nice phrases now. Followers imagine she sang about their improved relationship in her 2020 tune, “Invisible Strings,” from Folklore. “Chilly was the metal of my axe to grind/ For the boys who broke my coronary heart/ Now I ship their infants presents,” she sings. Joe, in fact, has two kids now, so she very effectively could have despatched him and his ex-wife, Sophie Turner, presents. Sophie can also be an enormous Taylor fan, and he or she just isn’t afraid to point out it.
