Taylor Swift says close friend Ed Sheeran discovered her engagement on Instagram
Taylor Swift during filming for the Graham Norton Show (Matt Crossick/PA Media Assignments/PA Wire)
Taylor Swift has revealed her close friend Ed Sheeran found out the news of her engagement to NFL footballer Travis Kelce along with the rest of the world on social media, saying the British singer “doesn’t have a phone”.
During an appearance on on Monday to promote her new album , the 35-year-old said communicating with Sheeran can be an intensive process.
While playing a game of true or false, Swift was asked by Fallon if Sheeran learned about the engagement “like everyone else did: on Instagram”, to which she replied: “So true (but) I have a perfect explanation, he doesn’t have a phone.”
She continued: “So he doesn’t have a phone, and this is like one thing I love about him, it’s very eccentric, love it.
“I’m going through my texts… and he just wasn’t there. You have to email him.
“If you want to set up a FaceTime, he has to find an iPad. You have to give it to him like he’s a child.
“This is one of my absolute favourite people on the planet. When the news came out, I was like ‘Oh my God, we forgot to call Ed! Oh no!’
“He’s like family. I love him. But he doesn’t have a phone.”
Swift was introduced by Fallon in a -inspired musical number, before showing off the engagement ring fiance Kelce proposed to her with.
“I look at it constantly. It doesn’t feel in any way normal for me,” she told Fallon.
“He’s just my favourite person I’ve ever met, no offence to everyone else.”
The pair revealed their engagement in August after two years of dating, announcing in a joint Instagram post: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Elsewhere in her appearance on , Swift said “has been the most well-matched era in terms of where my life was when I wrote it and then where I am now when it’s out in the world.”
She told Fallon: “(My previous album) , the name didn’t lie. I wrote that album and I was just miserable. And then when I put it out I was like, ‘I’m so happy now’. Release week meant just putting my phone in a drawer.
“This time feels so special because, with my albums I love to kind of showcase aspects of my personality that are in the extreme.
“ … was really highlighting the facets of me that are a writer that’s earnest and stoic and raw… the part of me that wants to just write everything and give you everything I wrote… in just excruciating detail.
“That was the character of the poet and I wanted this to be the character of the showgirl, which is other aspects of a person’s personality where you’re funny and feisty and having a blast and flirty and sort of tongue-in-cheek and a little scandalous.”
Written during the European leg of her Eras Tour, Swift’s new album pulls back the curtain on the singer’s life and romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Kelce, indulging listeners with a fun and playful pop record.
The album was made with Swedish duo Max Martin and Shellback, reuniting the singer with the producers she worked with in 2017 for her album and 2014’s pop juggernaut album .
The record features tracks including , which fans have speculated could be about her fiance Kelce, 36, whose birth stone is opal.
The fifth song on the track list, which is always the most significant song on Swift’s albums, is called and sees the star confess: “When I said I don’t believe in marriage that was a lie.”
is Swift’s first record since she announced her engagement to Kelce, and also the first since she revealed in May that she had regained control over her back catalogue.
Earlier this year, she was crowned global recording artist of the year for a fifth time – having previously won the award in 2014, 2019, 2022 and 2023.
Recognising her influence on popular culture, Swift was named Time magazine’s person of the year in 2023, the same year she embarked on her Eras Tour, which came to an end in December.
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