Taylor Swift’s Celebrity BFFs Through the Years
Since becoming a global superstar, Taylor Swift has amassed quite the crew of celebrity friends.
The Grammy winner aligned herself with the likes of Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid and Karlie Kloss in the early 2010s. That exclusive squad eventually evolved to a smaller, tight-knit group.
“In my 20s I found myself surrounded by girls who wanted to be my friend,” Swift wrote in a May 2019 Elle essay. “So I shouted it from the rooftops, posted pictures and celebrated my newfound acceptance into a sisterhood, without realizing that other people might still feel the way I did when I felt so alone.”
Swift noted the importance of “learning the difference between lifelong friendships” and “situationships,” explaining, “It’s sad but sometimes when you grow, you outgrow relationships.”
She realized true friends were “the ones who stuck around” through highs and lows. “I have friends and fans in my life who don’t care if I’m #canceled,” she wrote. “They were there in the worst times and they’re here now.”
Scroll down to see Swift’s A-list BFFs through the years!
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Brittany Mahomes
Mahomes, who is married to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, sparked a friendship with Swift during the 2023-2024 NFL season after the pop star began dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
“They have a really genuine friendship and love hanging out at the games together and cheering on their men,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in January 2024. “Brittany loves that Taylor is dating Travis, and she’s so supportive of their relationship. They have a very similar sense of humor and are always cracking jokes and laughing.”
When not cheering on their respective partners on game day, the pair have been spotted enjoying girls’ night out and dinners together.
Laura Dern
“It’s one of my deep friendships and I love and admire her so much,” the actress, who appeared in Swift’s “Bejeweled” music video alongside HAIM, told People in January 2024. “To find a friend amidst the creative, and she’s a superpower. … She’s incredible. So that’s been really fun.”
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Jessica Chastain
The pair were spotted smiling together at the 2014 Golden Globes, and then the Oscar winner was seen rocking out at Swift’s Eras Tour in Mexico City in 2023.
“She’s actually really sweet … the best, it’s crazy,” Chastain said of Swift during a December 2023 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I met her in 2011 at the Met Ball, and we were both — it was, like, the first year I was invited to the Met Ball. First year I had movies out and we were both sitting next to each other.” Chastain had “just gone through a breakup” and chatted with Swift about the split.
“We went and danced together. It was such a fun night,” the actress shared. “Then, the next day, I had an e-mail from iTunes that said, ‘Taylor Swift,’ whatever. I just thought it was a Taylor Swift album. She had made me a breakup playlist that she sent me.” Chastain called the gesture “the sweetest thing.”
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Ice Spice
Ice Spice appeared on the May 2023 remix of Swift’s song “Karma” and performed the song live with her at The East Rutherford, New Jersey, Eras Tour stop that month. The duo first connected after Ice Spice’s team heard her praising Swift’s 2020 documentary Miss Americana.
“What I took away from Taylor’s documentary is you really do need to work hard, and not everything is going to be as easy as it seems,” Ice Spice told Variety for a September 2023 profile on her. “My manager heard me talking about that and had reached out to her team, and then they had a song for me.”
Swift also contributed to the piece, telling Variety via email, “I relate to Ice in many ways, but I think her dedication and focus is what blew me away from the very start. She’s extremely professional without being cold. Playful and fun without ever taking her eye off the prize. She knows what is and isn’t ‘her’ and sets those boundaries with grace. She studies the industry and other artists’ careers but is very clear about charting her own definitive, original path. It’s her ability to carefully find that balance that impresses the hell out of me.”
The two musicians became friends after their collaboration. They were seen dancing, chatting and laughing together at the September 2023 MTV Video Music Awards and watched the Kansas City Chiefs win the February 2024 Super Bowl together from the same VIP box.
Some have theorized that Swift and Ice Spice’s friendship isn’t genuine, citing the “Karma” remix coinciding with Swift’s former flame Matty Healy getting heat for making disparaging remarks about Ice Spice. However, Ice Spice shut down the speculation during a July 2024 interview with Rolling Stone.
“[It’s] so rude to me, [because] why would she not want to be my friend?” Spice said of those who think her friendship with Swift is fake. “Taylor f—ks with me. She’s so funny. I think our personalities mesh really well.”
The “Princess Diana” singer added that she “never really cared” about the Healy controversy and said “he apologized multiple times.”
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Miles and Keleigh Teller
Miles and Keleigh, who tied the knot in 2019, both appeared in the November 2021 music video for Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) vault track “I Bet You Think About Me,” which was directed by Blake Lively.
Miles portrayed a groom haunted by memories of Swift, the ex he let get away, on his wedding day. Keleigh played his wife and mouthed “thank you” when Swift presented her with a gift box containing a red scarf, an iconic piece of Swiftie lore from the Red song “All Too Well.”
“So grateful for @Miles_Teller for being the greatest dance partner and friend to me,” Swift wrote via social media after the video’s release. “And @keleighteller, who is the coolest living human on planet earth. The bride was willing to risk it all 🥰🧣.”
Miles later revealed that his wife had gotten emotional on the set of the project.
“When we were shooting the music video, Taylor played for Keleigh the ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version)’ for the first time,” he told E! News in July 2022. “Keleigh was just looking at Taylor in her wedding dress and Taylor and I dancing while she was listening to ‘All Too Well,’ the new one, and she was just bawling her eyes out.”
In December 2023, Swift was spotted in Manhattan with Miles, Keleigh and Selena Gomez on the eve of her 34th birthday.
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Sabrina Carpenter
The “Nonsense” singer not only opened for Swift on several dates of the Eras Tour in 2023 but was also spotted hanging out with Swift at the VMAs that September and at one of Travis Kelce‘s football games the following month.
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Sophie Turner
Weeks after Joe Jonas (who dated Swift when they were teenagers) filed for divorce from the Game of Thrones alum in September 2023, Swift and Turner were spotted dining together in New York City. It was their first public outing, but the pair previously exchanged compliments via social media.
When Swift released Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in 2021, she dropped the song “Mr. Perfectly Fine” — a “vault track” that seems to be about Jonas. Turner shared her thoughts via her Instagram Story at the time: “It’s not NOT a bop.” Swift shared the post via her own profile, writing, “Forever bending at the knee for my queen of the north.”
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Jack Antonoff
The duo seemingly met at the 2012 MTV European Music Awards, and they began their prolific songwriting relationship in 2013 with the track “Sweeter Than Fiction” (written for the movie The One). Antonoff, who was dating Swift’s pal Lena Dunham at the time, went on to write three songs with Swift for her album 1989, including the hit “Out of the Woods.” He has worked on every subsequent Swift album, including her re-recordings.
Antonoff’s two Album of the Year Grammy Awards were won for Swift’s 1989 and Folklore.
“@taylorswift , from 1989 to here … goddmann. you are the one who let me produce records first,” Antonoff wrote via Instagram in a tribute to Swift after scoring their Folklore Grammy in 2021. “Before you i just “wasn’t a producer” according to the herbs. i just wasnt let in that room. then i met you, we made out of the woods and you said, “that’s the version” and that changed my life right there.”
He later appeared in her 2022 music video for “Bejeweled” and made a May 2023 appearance at the Eras Tour as a guest performer.
Swift was spotted at his New Jersey wedding to Margaret Qualley in August 2023.
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Suki Waterhouse
The Daisy Jones and the Six actress has been close with Swift since the mid-2000s. In October 2016, Waterhouse was spotted among Swift’s squad going to a Kings of Leon concert. Us confirmed in June 2019 that Swift and Waterhouse went on a double date with Joe Alwyn and Robert Pattinson in Hollywood. (Swift and Alwyn called it quits in April 2023.)
In August 2023, Swift gushed over Waterhouse’s talent as a singer and sang her praises for being a loyal friend. “Suki has always seemed like she stepped out of a time machine. Her music is so raw and hopelessly romantic because that’s how she moves through the world,” Swift told Ssence. “When we hang out, I often come away wondering how someone can be simultaneously spontaneous and free — and also preternaturally wise. She is the wildest person I know who I would also trust to keep any secret.”
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Phoebe Bridgers
Bridgers was featured on the song “Nothing New” from Swift’s rerecorded album Red (Taylor’s Version), which was released in November 2021.
In March 2023, the “Motion Sickness” singer presented Swift with the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. In her introduction, Bridgers gushed about her fellow songwriter’s authenticity.
“Taylor has always told the truth. She’s written songs from exactly where she is. Her music shifted genre in the same way life does —in the same way being 16 is totally incomparable to being 18, 22, 25, 28. I’m grateful that I’ve grown up in a world with Taylor Swift in it. Or, ‘The World (Taylor’s Version),’” she said.
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Lana Del Rey
The “Summertime Sadness” singer has a featured appearance on Swift’s Midnights album on the track “Snow on the Beach.” She also cowrote the song.
During Swift’s Eras Tour concert in Las Vegas, she gave a shoutout to her pal while introducing her “Snow on the Beach” live rendition. “I just think she’s the best that we have,” she gushed about Del Rey in March 2023. “So I think we need to make it a priority, as a group, to stream, buy, support this album and this artist.”
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John Early
The comedian landed a role in Swift’s “Anti-Hero” music video in October 2022 as one of Swift’s future children.
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Mike Birbiglia
The Orange Is the New Black actor plays one of the singer’s children in her music video for “Anti-Hero.” Birbiglia is also friends with Swift’s frequent collaborator, Antonoff.
