While Hugh Grant’s daughter may be the bigger Swiftie between them, the actor still relished their moment together on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
The “Notting Hill” star attended the second of eight shows Swift played at London’s Wembley Stadium over the summer — joining fellow actors Rachel Zegler and Tom Cruise in June in one of the rowdier VIP tents on the tour. (Prince William made an appearance the night prior.)
“I put out some feelers, and to my astonishment, they said, ‘Yeah, come along,’ ” he said.
While his daughter and her friend were “bopping away” to every song, Grant said, he buddied up with Swift’s boyfriend, NFL tight end Travis Kelce. Along with a few others Grant presumed to be rappers, they took shots of tequila and got “absolutely smashed.”
To which Swift replied: “As a long time Hugh Grant stan this tweet is very important to my culture.”
Recalling her “extremely nice” sentiment, Grant told NME that the “Miss Americana” star — with her three-hour, multimillion-dollar production — delivers a “brilliant show.”
Indeed, Swift seems to keep calm even in the face of wardrobe mishaps and stage malfunctions.
During her third and final stop Sunday night in New Orleans, the Grammy winner was in the middle of her song “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” when the stage’s reflective silver platform — dubbed the “Tayoomba” — suddenly stopped moving. (The mechanism typically roves around for the duration of the number, with Swift swooping and stomping atop it).
Still, the stage malfunction wasn’t the dramatic highlight of Swift’s New Orleans run. During Saturday night’s show, the billionaire hitmaker welcomed former opener Sabrina Carpenter onstage to sing a medley of her twin singles “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” and Swift’s own “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version).”
After her memorable cameo, Carpenter wrote to Swift on Instagram, “thank you for working late, thank you for being a singer and thank you for having me” — calling her pop mentor’s pulpit the “only stage i’d ever wanna see on a day off.”
Carpenter “had one day off from her very exhaustive tour schedule,” Swift wrote Tuesday on Instagram. “Her show is physically full on and spectacular, and she could’ve been resting in her time off.”
Still, the former Disney Channel star went “out of her way to give fans a surprise moment they didn’t expect. She’s as real as they come and I’m so thankful she did that for us,” Swift said, attaching a photo of the pair onstage.
Swift’s tour continues Nov. 1 in Indianapolis, the last U.S. city on the schedule, and officially concludes in December in Vancouver.
