Joe Alwyn has to shake it off and step on out.
Someday after Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, the Grammy winner’s ex was photographed on a day stroll in London.
In pictures obtained by TMZ, Alwyn, 34, sported light blue denim jeans, an identical striped sweater and a blue Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap as he enjoyed an informal walk with a friend on Wednesday, August 27.
While Alwyn’s fashion may look like cool and casual to some, other Swifites couldn’t help but recall the various times Swift, 35, has seemingly sung in regards to the actor and the colour blue together.
On her 2017 Repute album, Swift’s love ballad titled “Delicate” alluded to the early stages of her relationship with Alwyn.
Some fans speculated that the lyric, “Oh rattling, never seen that color blue,” referred to Alwyn’s eyes.
In her song “Gorgeous,” Swift also praised Alwyn’s “ocean blue eyes.”
When the singer released Lover two years later, Swift sang about private moments with Alwyn in “Paper Rings,” including after they painted his brother’s room blue together.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn Jackson Lee/GC Images
In 2020’s Folklore, Swift seemingly referenced the hue in reference to Alwyn again, singing in “Peace,” “I’ll keep your brittle heart warm / In case your cascade ocean wave blues come.”
Alwyn — who dated Swift from the autumn of 2016 to early 2024 — previously discussed moving on from the connection during a January 2025 interview with The Guardian. On the time, he expressed hopes that the general public could do the identical.
“That’s something for other people to do,” he said. “We’re talking about something that’s some time ago now in my life. In order that’s for other people. That’s what I feel.”
When asked whether he felt the connection overshadowed his acting profession, Alwyn played coy.
“I actually have tried simply to give attention to controlling what I can control,” he said. “Right from the start, [I] tried to give attention to the things which are meaningful for me: friends, family, work, in fact. So, noise outside of that, I believe I’ve done what numerous individuals who find themselves in the general public eye do, which is just attempt to ignore it.”
On Tuesday, August 26, Swift confirmed she was engaged to Kelce, 35, after two years of dating by sharing a joint social media post.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were notoriously private throughout their six-year relationship. The couple remained tight-lipped about their connection since its 2016 start, but Alwyn inspired a lot of Swift’s songs — including “London Boy” and “Cornelia Street” from 2019’s Lover. Outside of her lyrics, Swift rarely spoke publicly about their relationship, but she referenced her […]
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