Dec. 21, 2025

💰 $197 MILLION BONUSES: Crew broke down crying reading personal cards - dancer almost passed out!

💰 $197 MILLION BONUSES: Crew broke down crying reading personal cards - dancer almost passed out! 🎂 36 AS FIANCÉE: First birthday engaged - reflecting on engagement, billions, music ownership! 🏰 DISNEY OPENS EARLY: Hollywood Studios changed hours...

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💰 $197 MILLION BONUSES: Crew broke down crying reading personal cards - dancer almost passed out!

🎂 36 AS FIANCÉE: First birthday engaged - reflecting on engagement, billions, music ownership!

🏰 DISNEY OPENS EARLY: Hollywood Studios changed hours due to Swifties viewing costumes!

🏈 COACH REUNION: Travis's HS coach says Taylor asked for "all the dirt" on Travis!

🎄 COZY CHRISTMAS: "Intentionally slowing down" - cooking, family time, enjoying engagement!

👶 HOLDING KYLIE'S GIRLS: Taylor held Jason's daughters at game - being sweet auntie!

💍 PARTNERSHIP PLANNING: "Both equally involved and excited" in wedding preparations!

📺 NEW EPISODES DEC 19: Next docuseries installments dropping as Christmas gift!

🎭 VERSACE PAIN: "Constantly in physical pain" but costume made her feel "popping"!

🏡 FAVORITE TIME: Birthday and holidays are Taylor's special season!

💸 ERAS MONEY PURPOSE: "That's how I spent that Eras Tour money" - buying music back!

👶 BABY PREDICTIONS: Coach Rotsky "prays for little Kelces in next couple years"!

🛌 FINNLEY SLEPT: Baby slept through entire Chiefs game screaming!

🎯 YEAR-END REFLECTION: $2B tour, $2.1B net worth, engaged, owns all music!

🚨 SUNDAY CELEBRATION: Billions given, birthdays celebrated, Christmas approaching!

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Hey Swifties, Welcome back to Taylor Swift Today. It's Sunday,

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December twenty first our regular weekly episode, and we're diving

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into an incredible week, including Taylor's crew getting one hundred

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ninety seven million dollars in bonuses that made them cry,

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her first birthday as a fiance, Disney World opening early

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for Swifties, Travis reuniting with his high school coach, and

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Christmas plans revealed. Plus Kylie Kelsey's sweet story about Taylor

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holding her daughters. Let's celebrate an amazing year. First, let's

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talk about last weekend. Taylor officially celebrated her thirty sixth

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birthday as an engaged woman.

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What a year it's been. She completed one hundred and

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forty nine.

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Eras tour shows, released The Life of a Showgirl, got

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engaged to Travis, bought back all her music, and became

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a billionaire from music alone. There's literally nothing left to

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it a time looking back at this insane year. The

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engagement announcement in August with your English teacher and your

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Jim Teacher are getting married.

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That old mind.

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Brilliant cut diamond ring from Kindred Lubeck that Travis designed

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after paying attention to a video she showed him a

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year and a half ago. Taylor revealed on Heart Breakfast

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when I saw the ring, I was like, I know

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who made that?

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He listened to me. It was like, you really know me.

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I didn't know what I'd want, but he did somehow,

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And that's kind of a flex the fact he was

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secretly planning for over a year romance. Now for the

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most emotional story, Taylor gave out a reported one hundred

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and ninety seven million dollars in bonuses to her Eiras

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tour crew. The moment is captured in the docuseries and

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it's heartbreaking in the best way. She gathered everyone in

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a circle with personal cards. Taylor said, this leg of

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the tour has been harder than anything I've ever done

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in a live setting. And you guys have taken this

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on with such excitement, such curiosity, and the endurance you've shown.

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When crew member Cam read his card aloud, We've traveled

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the world like we set out to do. We've dazzled

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the crowds, but we've missed family too. My full gratitude

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doesn't come from a bank. But here's a bleep dollars

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just to say thanks. Everyone broke down crying. One dancer

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reportedly almost passed out.

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This included everyone.

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Truck drivers, caterers, instrument techs, merch team, lighting, sound production staff, assistants, carpenters, dancers,

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band security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, makeup, wardrobe, physical therapists.

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And video team. She values every person.

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On Colbert, Taylor revealed what she spent that aras tour

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money on That's how I spent that aras tour money.

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My fans are why I was able to get my

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music back. She said.

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Getting engaged and buying her music were two things that

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just never could have happened. It wasn't like, oh, it's

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just a matter of time. Both those things could have

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just never arrived in my life. The sweetest reunion happened

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this weekend. Travis brought Taylor to meet his high school

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football coach, Jeff Rotzky in Kansas City. Rotzky posted on

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x anyone who doubted Trav has been proven wrong. So

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proud of him and his future. Taylor's visible in the

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background of photos mingling with the crowd. Rotzky previously told

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The Times that Taylor is the kindest young lady you

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ever met, and down to earth. Their first meeting, her

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opening line was, I've been looking forward to meeting you.

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I want to hear all the dirt about Travis. Rotzky

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is so excited for Travis to become a husband, and added,

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I pray for little kelsis running around here in the

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next couple years. Baby Kelsey predictions from the coach who

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knew Travis as a teenager. Disney World had to open

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early because of Swifties. Hollywood Studios changed their opening from

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nine am to eight thirty am due to crowds wanting

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to see Taylor's era's tour costumes. The exhibit runs through

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January twenty twenty six and features the gold Snake bodysuit

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from Reputation, the Tortured Poets Department, blue fringed Vivian Westwood

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dress with Lubutan boots, and the crystal Versace Karma bodysuit.

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Taylor told Colbert about that Versace piece, I was constantly

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in a lot of physical pain, but when I put

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that on, I was just like, no, this is popping.

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I'm doing it. We're going the power of a great outfit.

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More in a moment. Christmas plans are adorably low key,

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a source told Us Weekly Tailor's been intentionally slowing down, cooking,

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spending time with family, and carving out space to enjoy

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being engaged. Travis has a home game on Christmas Day,

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so she'll likely be there.

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Like last year.

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The source said this is her favorite time of year

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with the holidays and her birthday. Plans are very low key,

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family centric and won't involve any major travel. Two years

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of NonStop touring, she deserves this cozy Christmas. About wedding planning,

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a new source revealed nothing feels rushed or one sided.

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They're both equally involved and excited.

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They're approaching it as a partnership, talking things through together

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and enjoying the process in a way that feels natural

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to them.

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Partnership goals.

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Kylie Kelsey shared the cutest story on her podcast about

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watching last Sunday's game with Taylor. It was her daughter's

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first time at Arrowhead Wyat six, Elliott four, Bennett two,

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and baby Finley eight months, who slept through all the screaming.

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The girls were so excited to get to watch a

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game with all of them. Kylie said Taylor was photographed

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holding one of the girls during the game. She wore

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a chic Ulla Johnson Italian woolcote the day after her birthday,

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supporting Travis. Even though the Chiefs lost sixteen to thirteen

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to the Chargers. Kylie admitted her girls are not that

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interested in football and actually yell at us any time

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we put football on TV. But they love that they

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can really yell at games. Taylor being the sweet anti

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figure holding Jason's daughters while watching their uncle play My

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Heart looking at the bigger picture. Taylor wrapped her thirty

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fifth year and started thirty sixth, having achieved everything. The

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Airass tour grossed over two billion dollars. She's worth two

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point one billion dollars herself.

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The Life of a.

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Showgirl broke every record with just one week of eligibility

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for year end charts. Her letter about buying her music back,

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all of the music I've ever made now belongs to me,

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and all my music videos, all the concert films, the

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album art and photography, the unreleased songs, the memories, the magic,

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the madness, every single era, my entire life's work.

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About Travis, she said, he's a blast.

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He's just the most fun person life of any party,

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even when it's just us. That's the goal, isn't it

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find a best friend who you think is hot. After

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years of heartbreak songs, she found her happily ever after.

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As we approach twenty twenty six, a source says Taylor

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always has ideas percolating, even if she's not locked into

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touring the life of a showgirl. There have been ideas floated,

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but right now she is enjoying her break. After twenty

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one months and one hundred forty nine shows, she's earned

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ninety seven million dollars in bonuses, melting over Taylor holding

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Kylie's daughters, and grateful for the most incredible year in

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Taylor history. Stay generous, stay cozy, and stay fearless, Swifties,