THEN AND NOW: Taylor Swift's star-studded 'squad' of friends

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Taylor Swift with some of her friends and members of her "team."
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  • Taylor Swift has a lot of famous friendships who have been referred to every bit members of her "squad."
  • Selena Gomez, Martha Hunt, Abigail Anderson Lucier, and Gigi Hadid are some of the original members.
  • Swift has also befriended actresses Blake Lively, Hailee Steinfeld, Emma Stone, and Lena Dunham.

Kloss confirmed that she and Swift are still shut in 2019, but some fans aren't convinced.

Karlie Kloss is the host of "Project Track."
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Over the years, the tabloids liked to speculate that the two had a falling out, but in a 2019 interview with Time magazine, Kloss confirmed she is still friends with Swift.

Simply the model was spotted in photos on social media vacationing and hanging out with Scooter Braun amid Swift's feud with the music director, which led fans to speculate some other rift.

Fans have too recently theorized that Swift'southward song "Information technology's Time to Become" is about the model.

In addition to modeling, Kloss now stars as the host of Bravo's "Project Runway" and runs the free camp "Kode with Klossy" to help immature girls learn how to code.

In March, Kloss welcomed her showtime child with married man Joshua Kushner.

Swift and Cara Delevingne seemingly met at the 2013 Victoria'due south Secret Fashion Testify.

Taylor Swift and Cara Delevingne hung out in New York City.
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Cara Delevingne and Swift seemed to link upwardly after the 2013 Victoria'south Secret Style Bear witness, which Swift performed at and Delevingne modeled in. Soon after, the two were spotted hanging out in New York City.

Delevingne was one of Swift's friends who appeared in the "Bad Blood" music video.

Todrick Hall met Taylor Swift after she saw his YouTube encompass of her "1989" album.

Todrick Hall performed in the "Look What You Made Me Practice" video.
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Todrick Hall got his start on YouTube doing mash-ups and covers of iconic songs and musicals.

He created an epic Swift-inspired mashup in 2015, and the "Carmine" singer loved it so much she invited him backstage to her 1989 tour and they became real-life friends.

He also appeared in the "Look What Yous Fabricated Me Do" music video in 2017.

Hall rose to mainstream fame quickly, and he and Swift are nevertheless close collaborators.

Todrick Hall and Taylor Swift accepting an award at the 2019 VMAs.
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Hall is widely known for his visual albums and his roles as guest approximate and choreographer on "RuPaul'due south Drag Race."

He as well starred on Broadway as Lola in "Kinky Boots" in 2017, and Swift saw him perform.

Plus Hall and Swift are all the same close collaborators.

He appeared in and was an executive producer of the "You Need to Calm Down" music video, which won for video of the year at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards.

In a June 2020 interview with Amusement Tonight, Hall praised Swift for using her platform to promote activism amongst the Black Lives Matter motility.

When Swift announced the drop of her new album "Folklore" (stylized as "sociology"), Hall posted to Instagram to say he would "be listening on echo. AAAAAHHHHHHHH."

After Swift announced her ninth studio album, "Evermore" (stylized as "evermore"), Hall once once more showed his back up for his friend with a series of tweets.

"I am honestly and then here for this Lilliputian Firm on the prairie stage of Madam Swift," he wrote in one tweet.

When Swift took dwelling house an laurels at the 2021 Grammys, Hall tweeted his back up, writing, "Anthology OF THE YEARRR!!!! SO PROUD OF TAYLOR!"

He recently posted photos wearing his "Crimson (Taylor'southward Version)" merch on Instagram.

Martha Chase likely met Swift at a Victoria'southward Secret Fashion Prove.

Martha Hunt and Taylor Swift at the 2014 Victoria's Undercover Fashion Show.
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Swift likely met model Martha Hunt at the 2014 Victoria'south Clandestine Fashion Show. Afterwards that event, the two were ofttimes seen hanging out around Swift's New York apartment.

Hunt is still modeling and supporting her friend, Swift.

Martha Hunt helped Taylor Swift celebrate her 30th birthday.
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Hunt is still a Victoria'due south Undercover Angel and continues to be ane of Swift's closest friends.

Hunt attended Swift'due south Pennsylvania Reputation bout stop in July 2018 where she took a trip to Swift'southward childhood abode. Shortly after, she was spotted hanging out in New York with Swift during one of the singer'south rare paparazzi snaps of 2018.

In 2019, Hunt shared a touching post for Swift's 30th birthday and helped her celebrate a few days later.

When "Taylor Swift City of Lover Concert" was released online in 2020, Hunt replied to a tweet near it calling it, "just heavenly."

Swift gifted Hunt with a cardigan from her "Folklore" merch, and Hunt posted a few pictures on Instagram of herself wearing information technology with the caption "peter losing wendy" — a line from "Cardigan."

Hunt historic Swift'due south win at the 2021 Grammys by posting a screenshot of the singer's acceptance voice communication on her Instagram Story.

Gomez and Swift are now one of Hollywood's power-couple friendships.

Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift are still friends.
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Gomez furthered her own music career and even performed "Hands to Myself" with Swift during a May 2018 Reputation tour stop.

While on stage, Gomez gave a tribute to her longtime pal in front end of Swift's fans.

"The reason why she's one of my best friends is because this person has never, ever judged me for a conclusion I've fabricated. She's always met me where I've been," Gomez said onstage during the show. "She encouraged me when I had nix to be encouraged nigh. And I don't know if I would be equally strong as I am if I didn't have yous and your family."

Swift and Gomez are all the same close friends, and ofttimes show encouragement for each other online.

When Swift released "Lover" and Gomez released "Lose You to Love Me" from her anthology "Rare," both of them promoted the other's songs on their Instagram stories.

In August 2020, Gomez said that she's "always dreamt of doing a song with Taylor."

That same calendar month, she launched her new HBO Max cooking show, and Swift made a surprise video-call appearance on one of the episodes. She introduced Swift to celebrity chef Roy Choi as her "best friend."

Since the release of "Evermore," fans have started to conjecture that the song "Dorothea" is about Gomez.

When Swift dropped her rerecording of "Love Story" in the lead up to the release of "Fearless (Taylor's Version)," Gomez posted to her Instagram Story, writing, "Then proud of y'all, equally always, Tay ... Mind to THIS album"

Swift recently posted a TikTok of her and Gomez hanging out backstage during "Saturday Night Live."

Lively' has become one of Swift's closest friends.

Blake Lively at the premiere for "The Rhythm Section."
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Some of the "Gossip Girl" star's most recent movie roles include "The Rhythm Section" (2020) and "A Unproblematic Favor" (2018).

Lively has besides had 3 daughters with Reynolds since she and Swift became friends.

The two however seem to exist close. Lively'due south daughter James' vox is heard on Swift's 2017 vocal "Gorgeous," she and Reynolds appeared in photos from Swift's 2019 New year's Eve political party, and at the end of 2019, the couple was part of the crowd that helped Swift celebrate her 30th birthday.

During the 2021 Grammys, Swift thanked Lively, Reynolds, and their three kids in her speech after she won anthology of the year for "Folklore."

On Halloween, fans think Swift — donned in a squirrel costume she posted on Instagram before in the day — joined Lively and Reynolds for trick-or-treating in NYC.

Lively also made her directorial debut in the music video for the "Red (Taylor'south Version)" vault rail "I Bet You Think Near Me."

Lorde and Swift bonded over music.

Lorde and Taylor Swift became fast friends.
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Later Lorde burst onto the scene with her breakout unmarried "Royals," Swift sent her flowers. Somewhen, the two singers met up (at Shake Shack) and formed a friendship.

In fact, Swift told PopCrush that Lorde was ane of the first people to hear "1989" before it was released considering Swift said the immature singer gives awesome advice.

Lorde besides performed as one of Swift'due south guest stars during her Washington, DC 1989 tour performance.

Lorde'southward career took off equally she battled reports about her friendship with Swift being over.

Lorde performed at ane of the 1989 tour concerts.
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In 2017, afterward a publication mistakenly reported that she and Swift were on the outs, Lorde tweeted: "I desire to say one more than fourth dimension that Taylor has been at that place for me in all my dark and low-cal moments these by five years. All of them."

Since and so, still, Swift and Lorde oasis't been seen together much.

Lorde, for her part, has had a sensational career and followed up her debut album with 2017'south "Melodrama" and 2021's "Solar Ability."

Hailee Steinfeld was also an early fellow member of Swift's "squad."

Hailee Steinfeld and Taylor Swift worked on the "Bad Blood" music video together.
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The actress/vocalizer appeared in a ton of Swift's Instagram posts in the pre-2015 "squad era," was in the "Bad Blood" video, and even walked onstage during one of the famous "squad" appearances from the 1989 tour.

At the time, Steinfeld was best known for her role in the "Pitch Perfect" series and her 2015 album "HAIZ."

Information technology's unclear if Swift and Steinfeld are notwithstanding close, but Steinfeld's career is on the rise.

Hailee Steinfeld stars every bit Emily Dickinson on "Dickinson."
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Steinfeld told Seventeen mag in 2016 that she didn't spend as much time with Swift every bit people might accept assumed, but that she does consider her a friend.

Today, Steinfeld'south music career has taken a dorsum seat to her successful acting career with contempo credits such as "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Poetry" (2019), "Between Two Ferns: The Movie" (2019), and "Charlie's Angels" (2019).

She too stars on the Apple Tv set+ serial "Dickinson."

It'southward unclear if the two are still friends, but Goulding has been in the studio working on her album.

Ellie Goulding is working on her fifth studio album.
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It'due south unclear if Swift and Goulding are nevertheless friends, as the 2 haven't publicly interacted in years.

For her part, Goulding told Billboard in Dec 2018 that she has been in the studio for the last two years working on a new anthology and enjoying her engagement to Caspar Jopling.

She and Jopling accept since gotten married, and her latest studio album, "Brightest Blue" was released in July 2020.

Lily Aldridge seemed to see Swift at a Victoria'southward Secret Fashion Evidence.

Taylor Swift and Lily Aldridge at the 2013 Victoria Underground's Mode Show.
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Swift and model Lily Aldridge appeared to take met at the 2013 Victoria's Secret bear witness. The model also appeared in Swift's star-studded "Bad Blood" music video in 2015.

Aldridge is at present modeling while also raising her two children.

Lily Aldridge has two children.
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The longtime Victoria'southward Secret Angel is still working on modeling campaigns while however raising her two children with her husband Caleb Followill.

In 2018, she posted a throwback photo and called Swift her "bestest buddy" in her Instagram story for Swift'due south birthday. The two oasis't had many public interactions since then.

Earlier this year, Aldridge posted a video of Swift'south Grammy functioning to her Instagram Story with the caption, "Love you."

When Swift rereleased "Blood-red (Taylor's Version)," she took to her Instagram Stories to show off her album merch in support of her friend.

Emma Rock and Swift met over a decade ago.

Taylor Swift and Emma Stone at the "Like shooting fish in a barrel A" premiere.
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Emma Stone and Swift reportedly met at the Young Hollywood Awards in 2008 and became fast friends. At the time, Stone had already been in the hit one-act "Superbad" (2007) and was quickly on her way to the A-list.

Stone even brought Swift every bit her date to the 2010 premiere of her movie "Piece of cake A."

Rock is one of Swift's almost low-key friends, but she did show up for the Reputation tour.

Emma Rock volition play the icon Disney villain in "Cruella."
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Although Stone doesn't have Instagram and actually didn't appear in many of the Swift "squad" photos from the 2015-2016 era, she appears to nevertheless be acquainted with the singer and even attended the Reputation tour in New Jersey in July 2018.

In terms of her career, Rock was nominated for a Golden World and an Oscar in 2019 for "The Favorite." Her other recent credits include the Netflix mini-series "Manic" and "Zombieland: Doubletap."

Stone recently starred in Disney's "Cruella."

Abigail Anderson Lucier has been friends with Swift since high schoolhouse.

Abigail Anderson Lucier and Taylor Swift at the Grammys in 2015.
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Abigail Anderson Lucier is Swift's hometown friend. The two met in high school, and Swift'south song "Fifteen" is even inspired past Lucier.

Swift brought Lucier as her appointment to the Grammys in 2015.

Lucier and Swift are still close friends.

Abigail Anderson Lucier and Taylor Swift celebrated the singer's 30th birthday.
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In 2017, Swift was a bridesmaid at Lucier'due south nuptials.

Lucier has too attended near of Swift'southward events including "Taymerica" in 2018 and the vocaliser's Christmas-themed 30th altogether party in 2019.

Afterward the surprise release of "Sociology" in July, Swift gifted Lucier the cardigan from the anthology's merch, and Lucier posted a moving picture of herself wearing information technology on Instagram.

The explanation read, "Taylor. Swift. What an absolute wonder y'all are. Your lyrical ability to move united states of america is seismic. Much like this cute gifted cardigan, this album is a dream. I've never been more than appreciative of your fine art. This one did something to me."

Reddish Rose and Swift met and became friends around 2015.

Cherry-red Rose and Taylor Swift at the 2016 GLAAD Media Awards.
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Though she had been interim and DJing in Australia for many years, Ruby Rose got her big break in the U.s. when she joined the cast of "Orange Is the New Black" for a nine-episode arch in 2015.

Rose appeared to befriend Swift sometime after the "Bad Blood" video made its debut, and the actress made an appearance during Swift's 1989 tour stop in New Orleans in 2015.

Rose also wrote a long post on her Instagram to congratulate Swift on the tour.

In 2016, Swift presented Rose with an award at the 2016 GLAAD Media Awards.

Ed Sheeran and Swift seemingly became shut when he opened for her tour in 2013.

Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden in 2013.
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Ed Sheeran and Swift performed together at the Z100 Jingle Ball in 2012 subsequently Sheeran was featured on a song from her album "Red" that released that same year.

Swift also had Sheeran open for her Cherry-red bout, solidifying his place in the "squad."

Sheeran's career has continued to flower.

Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift accept collaborated a few times.
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Subsequently the Red bout, Sheeran's career continued to bloom.

His anthology "Divide" was the global all-time-selling anthology of 2017, and the anthology's tour broke the record for the highest-grossing tour in music history.

Sheeran collaborated with Swift again on her "Reputation" album, which was released in 2017.

Sheeran is currently on a hiatus from music and social media, simply he and Swift still seem to be friendly.

In February 2020, an bystander source told Eastward! News that Sheeran and his wife, Cerise Seaborn, were spotted at dinner with Swift and her young man, Joe Alwyn. They were reportedly celebrating Alwyn's 29th birthday in a high-finish London eatery.

Sheeran returned on his original "Red" duet, "Everything Has Inverse," for "Ruby (Taylor's Version)," and he as well collaborated with her on the vault track "Run."

In an Instagram mail service, he shared with fans that "Run" was actually the first song he and Swift wrote together.

Claire Winter Kislinger is another original pre-team friend.

Claire Wintertime Kislinger and Taylor Swift are longtime friends.
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Claire Winter Kislinger, a jewelry designer, has been friends with Swift for years.

Swift reportedly used to hide messages in her anthology liner notes, and for the vocal "22" on "Cherry-red," Swift hid the names Ashley, Dianna, Claire, and Selena — probable as an ode to her friends Ashley Avignone, Dianna Agron, Claire Kislinger, and Selena Gomez, her original "squad."

Swift met Dianna Agron while the actress was even so starring on "Glee."

Taylor Swift and Dianna Agron at the AMAs in 2014.
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Dianna Agron was starring on "Glee" when she met and befriended Swift onetime in 2011.

Agron was besides a member of the supposed "22" liner-notes shout-outs, and Swift fifty-fifty helped throw her pal a circus-themed 26th birthday political party.

Agron is married and withal acting, but information technology's unclear if she and Swift are friends.

Dianna Agron married Winston Marshall from Mumford & Sons.
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Agron married Winston Marshall from the band Mumford & Sons in 2016 and has connected to human action in independent features.

She also directed a series of shorts — including a video for Tory Burch in 2015 — and spends a lot of fourth dimension doing charity work with the UN regarding the global refugee crisis.

She and Swift haven't been seen together on or offline in a few years, so it's unclear if they're still friends.

Ashley Avignone is a stylist who met Swift in the pre-"squad" era.

Taylor Swift, Emma Rock, and Ashley Avignone at an Oscars after-political party in 2011.
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Ashley Avignone is a noted style stylist who counts Emma Stone as a client, which might have been how she met Swift.

She is another friend whose proper name was supposedly mentioned in the secret "Cherry-red" notes.

Avignone is still friends with Swift.

Cazzie David, Taylor Swift, and Ashley Avignone at Swift'southward 30th birthday political party.
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Avignone attended several Reputation tour stops in 2018, including one where she posted a pic with Swift to Instagram and jokingly captioning information technology "Squa...JK."

She's nonetheless working as a stylist and has added campaigns with Diane von Furstenberg and Saks Fifth Avenue to her resume.

In 2018, Avignone hung out with Swift at the singer's childhood abode, and the next year she attended Swift'southward 30th birthday party.

She hyped up Swift on her Instagram Stories after the "Red (Taylor'south Version)" release, writing that the song "22" "still hits."

Gigi Hadid reportedly met Swift through common friend Karlie Kloss.

Taylor Swift and Gigi Hadid performing at the 1989 tour.
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Gigi Hadid reportedly met Swift in 2014 at a pre-Oscar fustigate with mutual pal Karlie Kloss.

A yr later, Hadid appeared in Swift's "Bad Blood" music video, and in May 2015, Hadid joined Swift on stage equally a special guest for one of her 1989 tour stops.

Hadid has regularly spoken highly of Swift to the printing, and the model told Elle Canada that the "squad" was a source of female empowerment.

Swift "met" the band HAIM on Twitter and eventually started vacationing with them.

Alana Haim and Taylor Swift at the Grammys in 2015.
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HAIM is a band comprised of 3 sisters: Este Haim, Danielle Haim, and Alana Haim. Swift and HAIM's relationship began online after both of them tweeted about their honey for 1 another'southward music.

Swift hung out with the band at a Golden Globes party in January of 2015, and later on that month they all took a trip to Hawaii together.

Swift then invited the band to open for her 1989 bout later that year.

HAIM is yet making music, and they recently collaborated with Swift.

HAIM performing alive.
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The band dropped their second studio anthology "Something to Tell You lot" in 2017 and embarked on their Sister Sis Sis Tour in 2018.

In July 2018, Este Haim hung out with Swift in her babyhood domicile in Reading, Pennsylvania, and checked out the Reputation bout that night.

The band recently collaborated with Swift on her anthology "Evermore." They were featured on the track "No Body, No Criminal offence."

"Our dream of singing on a land folk song with the i and only queen of storytelling, miss Taylor Swift is our 2nd Hanukkah present to yous," the group wrote in an Instagram post.

In Feb, Swift posted a photo on Instagram of her and the Haim sisters hanging out in footie pajamas and eating pizza. So on a Tuesday in May, Swift posted a photo of them hanging out with the caption, "Nosotros encounter upward every Tuesday night for dinner and a drinking glass of vino" — a lyric from "No Torso, No Criminal offense."

The band showed their support for "Red (Taylor'southward Version)" on Instagram Stories.

Swift and Lena Dunham'south friendship began on Twitter.

Taylor Swift and Lena Dunham at the Grammys in 2013.
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In 2012, breakout actress and writer Lena Dunham praised Swift'due south music on Twitter maxim she would take written papers about the singer in college had the "Red" anthology existed then.

Swift responded and said she loved Dunham's HBO evidence "Girls," and so Dunham supposedly sent her a DM saying she was excited to get friends.

In 2013, the ii met in person at the Grammys, and in 2015 Dunham was a office of the "Bad Blood" music video.

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