Spotted: Taylor Swift’s friendships with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds growing stronger by the year.
The Gossip Girl alum first publicly revealed she is a fan of Swift in September 2015 after Lively was accused of throwing shade at the singer-songwriter.
“…Sooo, turns out this WASN’T a video shoot for John Legend‘s cover of Bad Blood,” the actress wrote alongside a photo from a L’Oreal campaign shoot at the time via Instagram.
While social media users thought Lively was poking fun at Swift’s star-studded “Bad Blood” music video, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star quickly cleared things up.
“Umm whoever thought I was throwin shade clearly doesn’t know I have a ‘Taylor Swift Please Be My Wife Voo Doo Doll’ #obsessed Look how rad she is here making my niece Heather feel like a rock star,” Lively wrote at the time. “Love my Canadian family almost as much as I love Taylor Lively. I mean Swift. Ok, FIIINE we can hyphenate our last names. Xo Blake Swift-Lively 4eva.”
That same month, Lively joked that she was going to play Swift’s “Shake It Off” on repeat after she shut down her lifestyle website, Preserve.
It’s safe to say Lively introduced Swift to Reynolds, whom the Savages star married in 2012. The Deadpool star was spotted with his wife at Swift’s infamous 4th of July party in 2016. And while he didn’t look thrilled in the photos from the get-together, Reynolds promised he had a good time.
“That’s a problem I’ve had all my life,” he recalled in 2020 during an interview with Entertainment Weekly after photos from the bash came up. “If I’m not aware a photo is being taken, my natural resting face is one of a man dying. I had no idea somebody was taking a photo. Therefore I was resting comfortably in my persona of a man whose soul is visibly exiting this earth.”
In February 2020, Lively made it clear she and Swift were tighter than ever when she had to “pick a celebrity to clone” during a Buzzfeed quiz. While she acknowledged all of the stars — Swift, Leighton Meester, Gigi Hadid, Martha Stewart, Beyoncé and Anna Kendrick — were “amazing” options, she went with the “Blank Space” singer.
“I gotta go with Taylor,” she said. “Come on. The world needs more Taylor. I need more Taylor.”
Scroll through for more details of their friendship:
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Inside Taylor Swift’s Friendships With Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
Spotted: Taylor Swift’s friendships with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds growing stronger by the year.
The Gossip Girl alum first publicly revealed she is a fan of Swift in September 2015 after Lively was accused of throwing shade at the singer-songwriter.
“…Sooo, turns out this WASN’T a video shoot for John Legend‘s cover of Bad Blood,” the actress wrote alongside a photo from a L’Oreal campaign shoot at the time via Instagram.
While social media users thought Lively was poking fun at Swift’s star-studded “Bad Blood” music video, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star quickly cleared things up.
“Umm whoever thought I was throwin shade clearly doesn’t know I have a ‘Taylor Swift Please Be My Wife Voo Doo Doll’ #obsessed Look how rad she is here making my niece Heather feel like a rock star,” Lively wrote at the time. “Love my Canadian family almost as much as I love Taylor Lively. I mean Swift. Ok, FIIINE we can hyphenate our last names. Xo Blake Swift-Lively 4eva.”
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That same month, Lively joked that she was going to play Swift’s “Shake It Off” on repeat after she shut down her lifestyle website, Preserve.
It’s safe to say Lively introduced Swift to Reynolds, whom the Savages star married in 2012. The Deadpool star was spotted with his wife at Swift’s infamous 4th of July party in 2016. And while he didn’t look thrilled in the photos from the get-together, Reynolds promised he had a good time.
“That’s a problem I’ve had all my life,” he recalled in 2020 during an interview with Entertainment Weekly after photos from the bash came up. “If I’m not aware a photo is being taken, my natural resting face is one of a man dying. I had no idea somebody was taking a photo. Therefore I was resting comfortably in my persona of a man whose soul is visibly exiting this earth.”
In February 2020, Lively made it clear she and Swift were tighter than ever when she had to “pick a celebrity to clone” during a Buzzfeed quiz. While she acknowledged all of the stars — Swift, Leighton Meester, Gigi Hadid, Martha Stewart, Beyoncé and Anna Kendrick — were “amazing” options, she went with the “Blank Space” singer.
“I gotta go with Taylor,” she said. “Come on. The world needs more Taylor. I need more Taylor.”
Scroll through for more details of their friendship:
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2015
Two months after Lively confirmed she wasn’t shading Swift via Instagram, the two women met up in Australia.
“Yesterday was such an amazing day off,” Swift wrote alongside a photo with Lively in December 2015 via Instagram. “Roller coasters, kangaroos and LOLs with Blake Lively. See you tonight, Adelaide!”
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2016
“People Who I Not Only Really Love, But Also Really LIKE, That Were Born Yesterday: Part 1 of 2.🎈 @taylorswift you know how I feel. 💜,” Lively captioned a birthday selfie for Swift in December 2016. (The second birthday shoutout was for sister Robyn Lively’s husband, Bart Johnson.)
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2017
Lively and Reynolds’ eldest daughter, James, was featured at the top of Swift’s 2017 track, “Gorgeous.”
“A little intro there, yeah,” Reynolds said on Good Morning America about the song in 2018. “That was a voice memo that ended up on a [Taylor Swift] song. It’s pretty amazing. My daughter has a really, really terrible ego problem now after that song.”
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2018
Lively and Reynolds were spotted jumping for joy when Swift sang “Gorgeous” at her concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in July 2018.
The actress later called their freakout “embarrassing.”
“That was the true, unfiltered version of our terrible stage parent pride,” she told GMA that September. “Our kids have very normal lives, as much as that’s possible. So she didn’t even get a title on the album. I should be collecting royalties!”
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2019
Reynolds and Lively were in attendance at Swift’s 30th birthday party in December 2019.
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2020
Fans may have learned how close the couple really is to Swift in July 2020 when she dropped a track called “Betty” on her eighth studio album, Folklore. In the song, Swift references the monikers of Lively and Reynolds’ oldest daughters, James and Inez — and seemingly announced the name of baby No. 3, who quietly arrived in 2019.
“You heard the rumors from Inez / You can’t believe a word she says,” Swift sings in the chorus.
The bridge lyrics read: “I was walking home on broken cobblestones / Just thinking of you when she pulled up like / A figment of my worst intentions / She said ‘James, get in, let’s drive.’”
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2020
Swift confirmed the “Betty” name theory in a radio interview in August 2020, settling listeners, “I named all the characters in this story after my friend’s kids, and I hope you like it!”
She also provided more insight into the song. “He lost the love of his love, basically, and doesn’t understand how to get it back. I think we all have these situations in our lives where we learn to really, really give a heartfelt apology for the first time,” Swift explained. “Everyone makes mistakes, everybody really messes up sometimes. This is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy. And I’ve always loved that in music you can kind of slip into different identifies and you can sing from other people’s perspectives, and that’s what I did in this one.”
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2021
Swift gave a shout-out to the couple during her acceptance speech for Album of the Year at the Grammys in March 2021, thanking “Betty, James and Inez” and their parents. She also noted that after boyfriend Alwyn, Lively and Reynolds are the next ones to hear her new music.
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2021
Reynolds turned out to be Swift’s photographer for this Instagram snap of her with Sadie Sink and Bowen Yang. Reynolds is seen in the mirror taking the snap backstage at Swift’s November SNL performance. The Free Guy star and his wife both visited the New York City studio to watch Swift perform “All Too Well.” In the comments section, Lively revealed that she makes a cameo in the pic. “Whose gorgeous foot is that?!” she commented, noting the sparkling blue heel next to Reynolds
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2021
Lively made her directorial debut with the singer’s “I Bet You Think About Me” music video. “I finally got to work with the brilliant, brave, & wickedly funny @blakelively on her directorial debut. Join us as we raise a toast, and a little hell,” Swift captioned her November 12 announcement via Instagram, one day before the video’s release.
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2022
In June 2022, Swift attended the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival to discuss her short film All Too Well — and Lively and Reynolds were there to support her. The songstress wore a navy blue pinstripe waistcoat and matching trousers, similar to what the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star wore in her 2018 thriller, A Simple Favor.
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2022
Lively shared snaps of her baby bump in September 2022 after announcing that baby No. 4 was on the way. One snap showed her hugging Swift.
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2022
After the “Maroon” singer released her 10th studio album, Midnights, in October 2022, fans were quick to develop a theory that she name-dropped pregnant Lively and Reynolds’ fourth child’s name.
In “You’re On Your Own, Kid” Swift sings, “I see the great escape, so long, Daisy May / I picked the petals, he loves me not,” she sang on the track. “Something different bloomed, writing in my room / I play my songs in the parking lot.”
Since the Pennsylvania native has a penchant for including Lively and Reynolds’ kids’ names in her music, viewers immediately surmised that “Daisy May” will be what the couple names their fourth baby.
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2022
After thanking fans for supporting the “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” music video, Swift gave Lively a surprise shout-out while accepting the award for Favorite Pop Album at the American Music Awards in November 2022. “I want to take a moment to thank someone who directed the other music video, ‘I Bet You Think About Me,’ my beautiful, brilliant friend, [and] my director, Blake Lively,” she gushed.
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