It’s over. Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn have reportedly cut up after six years collectively.
A number of shops reported on Saturday, April 8, that the duo formally broke up. Us Weekly has reached out to each Swift and Alwyn’s representatives for remark.
The “Lavender Haze” singer, 33, and The Favorite actor, 32, had been first linked in Could 2017. Later that yr, a supply instructed Us that the twosome had been “taking it gradual,” however “very a lot in love.”
“They only work out, watch motion pictures collectively and invite pals over,” the insider mentioned on the time. “Taylor likes to prepare dinner and bake for him.”
After greater than three years collectively, one other supply instructed Us that Swift considered her beau as “one of many solely secure constants in her life.”
“[They] have talked about their future and marriage,” the insider added in March 2020. “They don’t have a set deadline in place, however they’re very a lot in love. … [Joe] has all the time been an enormous help and caught by her.”
4 months later, the Grammy winner stunned followers with the discharge of her eighth studio album, Folklore, which she later revealed featured collaborations along with her man.
Whereas dissecting Swift’s July 2020 album, followers rapidly observed a number of references to her relationship with Alwyn in songs like “Invisible String,” “Cardigan,” and “Peace.” Additionally they found that William Bowery was a pen title and rapidly speculated that Alwyn used the moniker. Swift later confirmed that her beau co-wrote “Exile and “Betty.”
The “All Too Effectively” songstress gave Swifties a glimpse at her romance with the Mary Queen of Scots actor in December of that yr, whereas reflecting on the making of Folklore.
“Joe and I actually love unhappy songs. We’ve all the time bonded over music. … We write the saddest. We simply actually love unhappy songs. What can I say?” Swift instructed Zane Lowe on his Apple Music present on the time. “And I say it was a shock that we began writing collectively, however in a means, it wasn’t as a result of now we have all the time bonded over music and had the identical musical tastes. And he’s all the time the one who’s exhibiting me songs by artists after which they grow to be my favourite songs.”
Although the “London Boy” songstress has by no means hesitated to make use of her love life as inspiration for her artwork, Alwyn has been extra inclined to maintain his out of the general public eye.
“I don’t assume anybody you meet on the streets would simply spill their guts out to you, subsequently why ought to I?” he instructed MR PORTER’s The Journal in January 2019. “After which that’s outlined as being ‘surprisingly personal.’ Fantastic. However I don’t assume it’s … I believe it’s regular.”
One yr later, Swift addressed how her low-key romance with the British actor helped her “reset” after a tumultuous time throughout her Netflix documentary, Miss Americana.
“I used to be falling in love with somebody who had a extremely splendidly regular, balanced, grounded life,” she mentioned within the movie. “We determined collectively that we wished our relationship to be personal. … I wasn’t pleased in the way in which that I’d been skilled to be pleased. It was happiness with out anybody else’s enter. It was simply we had been pleased.”
The twosome beforehand sparked engagement hypothesis in August 2019 when Swift launched the title monitor off her seventh studio album, Lover.
“I take this magnetic pressure of a person to be my lover / My coronary heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue / All’s properly that ends properly to finish up with you,” she sings, seemingly referring to a standard bride sporting one thing borrowed, one thing blue, one thing previous and one thing new on at her wedding ceremony.
In Could 2022, the Conversations With Buddies star confronted the rumors he had popped the query head on. “If I had a pound for each time I believe I’ve been instructed I’ve been engaged, then I’d have plenty of pound cash,” he instructed WSJ Journal. “I imply, the reality is, if the reply was sure, I wouldn’t say, and if the reply was no, I wouldn’t say.”
The England native went on to take a position in regards to the stress placed on individuals to share intimate particulars of their lives. “We reside in a tradition that individuals anticipate a lot to be given. In order that should you’re not posting on a regular basis about what you’re doing, the way you’re spending a day or the way you made a breakfast, does that make you a recluse?” he requested on the time. “I’d additionally prefer to really feel barely much less guarded generally in interviews or in no matter form of interactions, nevertheless it’s only a knee-jerk response to the tradition we reside in. In the event you give it to them, it simply opens the door.”
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Forward of her longterm romance with Alwyn, Swift dated Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Harry Types, Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston.