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Taylor Swift has hinted that her good friend and fellow pop star Ed Sheeran may perform at her wedding.

It comes after Swift released her 12th studio album, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ on Friday (October 3), following up from last year’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. Back in August, Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce.

Speaking on UK’s Hits Radio Breakfast Show, Swift joked that there was nothing more than she and Sheeran love more than to be asked to sing at a big event. 

“We spoke to Ed Sheeran a few weeks back, and he told us he is constantly asked to perform at people’s weddings,” Swift added. Host Fleur East then asked Swift if Sheeran could sing at her wedding. “Oh, it would be hard to keep him from it, I think,” Swift replied. 

Last year, Swift brought out Sheeran as a special guest during the first of her five-night ‘Eras’ tour run at Wembley Stadium. The pair’s friendship goes back over a decade to when Sheeran opened for Swift on her ‘Red’ tour. The album also featured a collaboration between the two called ‘Everything Has Changed’.
The pair continued to collaborate after 2013, on Swift’s ‘End Game’ and the re-record of ‘Everything Has Changed’ for her ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ album. The pair also collaborated on the remix for Sheeran’s ‘The Joker And The Queen’. Sheeran also revealed previously that he regularly confides in Swift and that they discuss each other’s work together.
Elsewhere in the interview with UK Hits Radio, Swift opened up more about her friendship with Sheeran and that the two had a good catch up recently while attending Selena Gomez’s wedding to Benny Blanco in California.

“I saw him last weekend, actually, at a wedding of one of our best friends. We were just talking about how much we love when he came out onstage with me at Wembley during the Eras Tour,” she recalled, referring to Sheeran’s appearance at her London concert in 2024.

Swift also echoed Sheeran saying that they often discuss their music, especially when “rehearsing or writing or working together”. She added: “There’s really like a sort of strange mind-meld thing that happens between us two, and we’ve always had it,” she explained, concluding, “We always will.”

In other news, Swift has revealed elsewhere that she was worried her songwriting would “dry up” if she were “ever truly happy in a relationship.”

Speaking to Greg James on BBC Radio 1, Swift – who has famously used her relationships as inspiration for her songs throughout her career – said she feared her abilities as a songwriter might dry up if she felt “happy and free.”

She explained: “I used to have this dark fear that if I ever were truly happy and free, being myself and nurtured by a relationship, what happens if the writing just dries up? …What if writing is directly tied to my torment and pain? And it turns out, that’s not the case at all, and we just were catching lightning in a bottle with this record.

“But it’s nice because you’re coming from a place of happiness and love, you can go back to those places. You can look forward to other things,” she said.

Swift has also since responded to rumours that ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ could be her last album, saying “it’s a shockingly offensive thing to say.”

NME gave ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ three stars, writing: “To seek escapism is not a sin, but the best pop music makes the personal feel like life or death. ‘Speak Now’, ‘Reputation’, ‘Folklore’: her greatest works could be genuinely transformative. For the first time, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ sees Swift not catalysed into artistic growth by love, but merely comfortably secured by it.”

Yesterday, Swift also released a music video for ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’, making it the first official single from the record.