Taylor Swift Addresses Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy Breakups in Rare Comment

Meanwhile, Alwyn’s attendance marked his first time attending the event in 10 years. Indeed, Alwyn’s last time stepping out at the event in 2016 is rumored to be where he and Swift first crossed paths, as their relationship was confirmed a year later. 

Alwyn and Swift never confirmed their meet cute, but fans previously noted that a lyric in the Grammy winner’s song “Dress” indicates it could have been at the 2016 Met Gala—which is also the last time Swift attended, sporting a Louis Vuitton gown and a short-lived bleached hairdo. 

“Flashback to when you met me,” Swift sings on the Reputation track. “Your buzzed cut and my hair bleached.”

Throughout their six-year romance, Alwyn and Swift were notoriously private, which earned The Favourite star backlash once Swift’s extremely high profile romance with Travis Kelce—to whom she’s now engaged—began in 2023. 

“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” Swift told TIME of dating Kelce in 2023. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

Indeed, Swift’s willingness to be so public with Kelce led many of her fans to believe that Alwyn was to blame for their own low-key romance, but the 35-year-old later pushed back on the narrative. 

“As everyone knows, we together—both of us, mutually—decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private,” Alwyn told The Sunday Times in 2024. “It was never something to commodify and I see no reason to change that now.”

Alwyn and Pidgeon aren’t the only celebs to let their romance heat up with the weather. For more stars who hard launched in the summertime, keep reading…