Who Is Taylor Swift’s Boyfriend? Meet Joe Alwyn
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Things are getting serious with Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. After six years of dating, they may be getting married.
The couple has kept their relationship mostly under wraps, which seems to have done the trick for their longevity.
Alwyn is not well known in the United States, but that’s about to change.
Taylor Swift Has Had Several A-List Boyfriends Over the Years
Before meeting Joe Alwyn, Taylor Swift dated a few very famous Hollywood heartthrobs, including Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake, Gyllenhaal, Redmayne, Zac Efron, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, and Tom Hiddleston.
All of these relationships were in the public eye. Swift referred to many of them in songs and not always in positive ways.
Unlike her previous relationships, Swift has kept her relationship with Alwyn under wraps, and this seems to have been the secret to their success.
She Met Alwyn at the 2016 Met Gala
Swift and Alwyn have mostly avoided public scrutiny. While they became known as an item in May 2017, it’s believed they met at the 2016 Met Gala.
Swift may have confirmed this timeline in the diary that came with her “Lover” deluxe edition. She said, “I’m essentially based in London, hiding out trying to protect us from the nasty world that just wants to ruin things. … We have been together and no one has found out for 3 months now.”
In her song “Dress” from the “Reputation” LP, she wrote: “Flashback to when you met me/Your buzz cut/And my hair bleached.” As you can see in the above photos from the Met Gala, it’s clear who Swift was pointing to at that moment.
In her 2020 documentary, “Miss Americana,” she alluded to how she fell for Alwyn.”I felt alone, I felt really bitter. [At the time she was in a feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.] I felt sort of like a wounded animal lashing out. I figured I had to reset everything. I had to reconstruct an entire belief system for my own personal sanity. I also was falling in love with someone who had a wonderfully normal, balanced life.”
Alwyn Is a Success in His Own Right
Joe Alwyn is an actor and model who hails from London. At 31, he is two years younger than Swift.
He is an alumnus of the National Youth Theatre, the University of Bristol and London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Alwyn is more well-known in the United Kingdom than in the U.S. (for now). He’s had starring roles in “The Favourite,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” and is a regular on the BBC series “Conversations with Friends,” which airs stateside on Hulu.
Joe Alwyn’s net worth is about $4 million.
The Couple Grew Close Quickly and Shared Creative Outlets
In June 2017, Alwyn met Swift’s family in Nashville. Later that year, he was seen attending her show at iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball in New York City. In May 2018, the couple became Instagram official.
In 2020, he even wrote a few songs with Swift for her “Folklore” album, under the name William Bowery, so as not to bring attention to their relationship. “It was really the most accidental thing to happen in lockdown. It wasn’t like, ‘It’s three o’clock, it’s time to write a song!’ It was just messing around on a piano and singing badly and being overheard and then thinking, you know, what if we tried to get to the end of it together?” Alwyn co-wrote “Exile” and “Betty,” “Champagne Problems” and “Coney Island” on “Folklore.”
Swift has taken on acting roles in recent years as well. She made her musical debut in 2019’s “Cats” (Alwyn attended the premiere in support) and is about to star in the long-awaited David O. Russell film “Amsterdam,” alongside Christian Bale, Margo Robbie, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Mike Myers, Rami Malek, and Zoe Saldaña.