Dec. 14, 2025

🎂 HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY: Taylor celebrates first birthday as fiancée - we love you!

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🎂 HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY: Taylor celebrates first birthday as fiancée - we love you!

😭 SOUTHPORT TEARS: Heartbreaking footage of Taylor meeting victims' families before Wembley!

👻 GHOST NIGHTGOWN ERA: "I'd like someone to think they saw a ghost" - Victorian home aesthetic!

🍞 BREAD GIRL NOW: Cross-stitching, hobbies, and "hyperactive" downtime revealed!

🎵 REPUTATION CHANGES: "Bitch" replaces "change" - Is Rep TV finally coming?

📚 AUDIOBOOK OBSESSION: British mansions, Maine compounds, unreliable narrators required!

🏥 STOMACH FLU TOURS: Performed multiple times sick - "There is no option not to go on!"

🛁 MERMAID TIME: Post-show routine - bath, ALL the room service, sign 2000 CDs!

📈 ONE WEEK WONDER: Year-end #1 album with just ONE week of eligibility - FIFTH time!

⚖️ SWIFT VS BEDDING: Legal action against "Swift Home" using her name since 2015!

✈️ FEELING HUNTED: Told Ed Sheeran she needs to disappear after feeling "tracked like animal"!

🎭 JOY BLACKOUTS: Fans diagnosed with "post-concert amnesia" from euphoria!

🐈 PILLOW CAT: Benjamin Button sleeps on her head wherever they travel!

🎪 PILOT METAPHOR: "Welcome to Eras Tour" despite turbulence behind scenes!

🚨 EXPANDED SUNDAY: Birthday celebration, emotional reveals, legal battles, Victorian vibes!

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

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December fifteenth, our regular weekly episode, and we have so

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much to cover, including Taylor celebrating her thirty sixth birthday

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yesterday as an engaged woman, her incredible late show appearance

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revealing everything from ghost nightgowns to bread obsessions, heartbreaking docuseries,

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footage of her meeting Southport families, mysterious reputation lyric changes,

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and she's taking legal action over bedding. This is a

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packed episode, so let's dive in. First, and most importantly,

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Happy thirty sixth birthday to our Queen Taylor Swift. Yesterday,

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December fourteenth, she officially celebrated her first birthday as a fiancee,

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thirty six years of changing the world, breaking records, and

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giving us the soundtrack to our Lives. We love you,

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Taylor and hope your birthday was as magical as you are.

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Now let's talk about her amazing Late Show with Stephen

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Colbert appearance Wednesday night. She was absolutely stunning in a

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velvet burgundy one thousand, six hundred ninety five dollars David

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Koma mini dress with a bardo neckline and these incredible

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structured winglike off the shoulder sleeves, dark red pointed toe heels,

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sparkling necklace, blonde hair and a chic updo, dark red

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lip and cati liner.

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Pure showgirl glamour.

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The revelations from this interview were incredible. First, she admitted

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performing even with stomach flu multiple times during the eras tour,

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I make a decision at the beginning of the tour

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that there is no option to not go on stage

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even if you have the stomach flu, which I had

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multiple times during the tour. My goal was to never

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let them know. She explained, there is something bigger than you.

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These people have saved up their money, rearranged their schedules,

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arranged transportation, They've had parties, created costumes, made friendship bracelets.

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I'm doing. There's the show, the dedication. Her post show

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routine is adorable.

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I'll go back to the hotel, get out of the costume,

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into the bath immediately mermaid time. Then she orders the

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most amount of room service possible, everything I want on

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that given night. She needs to power up for the

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three and a half hour show and afterwards signs like

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two thousand CDs the funniest revelation her home esthetic. I've

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got like an old Victorian nightgown on. I prefer to

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look like if you see me in the window, I'd

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like for someone to think they saw a ghost. She

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doesn't want any music paraphernalia at home. I don't want

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any plaques or a studio. I don't want there to

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be any evidence that a music person lives here. She

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revealed she's bread girl now and does cross stitching.

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This isn't going to cross stitch itself.

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She called herself passionate, hyperactive people, saying I can't slow

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down the fact that I need to get up and

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do a lot of things today, but I can change

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what those things are. Her audiobook preferences are hilarious and specific.

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She wants an old rambling shambles, British mansion covered in moss,

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or ivy, a mysterious relationship he may not be what

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he seems, a murder in the past, whispers of it,

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the idea of a ghost or an actual ghost, or

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a family compound on an island off Maine with secrets,

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or a marriage that isn't what it seems. Plot twist,

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unreliable narrator. She is the Psycho. She talked about her

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incredible friendship with Stevie Nicks, being able to talk with

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her and hear what she's been through. She paved the

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way for me and any other artist. I feel very

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lucky that she's lended her very magical, wonderful, wise approach

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to life to me. She also revealed she travels everywhere

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with her cats. Colbert showed a photo of her sleeping

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with Benjamin Button literally perched on her head. He's really

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really attached to my pillow, wherever that may be, in

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whatever country that is. When discussing the Seattle earthquake during

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her show, she said, the entire tour there were just

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these out of control, out of body experiences. Most of

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my band has been with me since I was sixteen.

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We'd look at each other and go, this isn't normal.

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She talked about joy blackouts. Medical professionals are diagnosing fans

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who came to the Era's tour with post concert amnesia.

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They were getting joy blackouts. I was like, oh, man,

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I think this one is different. Colbert shared a backstage

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video of them swaying to Haystephen before she mouthed the

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opening line while waving at him. He also shared how

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he'll love Taylor Swift till the day I die for

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how nice she was to his daughter. Now for the

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heartbreaking docuseries Revelations, The End of an Era shows Taylor

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breaking down in tears after meeting Southport attack victims families.

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The footage shows her sobbing in her glittering orange outfit

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minutes before going on stage at Wembley. Her mom, Andrea

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is seen comforting her, I know you helped them. I

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know it doesn't seem like it, but I know you

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help them. Taylor's struggle to catch her breath wipes her eyes,

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then is wheeled to stage with no time to process.

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She said, it's my job to handle all these feelings

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and then perk up immediately to perform. That's just the

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way it's got to be. She compared herself to a pilot.

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You're like a pilot flying a plane through turbulence. You

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just have to have a calm, cool, collected tone, like

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welcome to the Era's tour.

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You lock it off three and a half hours. They

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don't have to worry about you.

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The docuseries also shows her telling Ed Sheeran she feels

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hunted and tracked like an animal amid her romance with Travis.

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I just need to do this show, remember the joy

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of it. I need more than I've ever needed. I'm

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just going to go somewhere no one can find me.

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When Ed suggested people forgot she's human, she said one

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hundred percent yeah. After the first Wembley show, she immediately

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called Travis.

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It went so great. I'm so happy.

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Maybe the crowd knew I needed to pick me up.

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I was so happy that I thought I was going

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to forget how to play guitar and sing. She also

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revealed keeping the Tortured Poets Department secret. I love having

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a good secret. She would sing the lyrics instead of

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playing recordings to keep it hush. Major News reputation lyrics

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have been changed on Apple Music's Dollby at Miss version.

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I did something bad now says if a man talks shit,

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then I owe him nothing, and if he calls me

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a bitch, then he had it coming, instead of the

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original Delicate changed oh damn to goddamn. Taylor previously said

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in May about REPTV Full Transparency, I haven't even re

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recorded a quarter of it. The reputation album was so

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specific to that time. All that defiance that longing to

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be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood. But now these changes

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suggest it might be coming incredible achievement. The Life of

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a show Girl is the number one album on Billboard's

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twenty twenty five Year and Chart, with only one week

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of eligibility. It debuted October eighteen, the final week of

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the chart year, with four million units.

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She's the first act to have year end.

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Number one albums in consecutive years with different titles since

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Elton John in nineteen seventy four to seventy five. She's

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now had five year and number one albums, the only

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act to do it more than three times. Previous wins

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Fearless two thousand and nine, nineteen eighty nine, twenty fifteen,

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Reputation twenty eighteen, TTPD twenty twenty four, and now The

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Life of a Showgirl twenty twenty five. The Tortured Poets

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Department also finished at number six. Legal drama Alert Taylor's

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taking action against Cathay Homing for their Swift Home betting line.

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The battle dates to twenty fifteen, but reignited after they

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filed for a new logo with a bird wing. They

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even posted on Instagram. Using her album to promote their

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products Current Mood, Blanket Forts and Missus Swift on Repeat.

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Taylor's hired Rebeccah Libowitz from Venable LP, the same firm

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from her Jack Sweeney jet tracking case. She has until

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December twenty twenty six to file opposition documents. Ironically, she

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showed herself with a coop pillow eighty five dollars while

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talking about Benjamin sleeping on her head.

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She's also gone.

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After other trademarks, successfully canceling Taylor Talk Podcast trademark from

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Adam Bromberg, who ran two hundred episodes claiming to be

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the biggest, Baddest Taylor Swift podcast.

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More in a moment.

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Looking at this week, from birthday celebrations to emotional docuseries

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reveals to potential reputation TV hints. The Colbert appearance showed

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us ghost tailor in Victorian nightgowns, cross stitching breadgirl who

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gets joy blackouts from her own shows.

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The vulnerability in.

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The docuseries paired with her professionalism is incredible. The fact

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she performed with stomach flew multiple times, met grieving families,

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then immediately performed for three and a half hours. Felt hunted,

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but still delivered the tour of a lifetime, This is

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Why We Love Her and getting year end number one

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with one week legendary. Taylor Swift Today now has an

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official Facebook community. Share your birthday wishes for Taylor, thoughts

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The End of an Era docuseries and the final show

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are streaming now on Disney Plus while we get more

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reputation hints, is the betting lawsuit going anywhere? Make sure

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you're following on your favorite podcast player. This is Ali

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celebrating Taylor's thirty sixth birthday, crying over the Southport footage

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and ready for Ghost nightgown Era. Stay strong, stay bred, obsessed,

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and stay fearless, Swifties,