While Hugh Grant's daughter may be the biggest Swiftie among them, the actor still enjoyed their moment together on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
The “Notting Hill” star attended the second of eight shows Swift performed at London's Wembley Stadium over the summer, joining fellow actors Rachel Zegler and Tom Cruise in June at one of the loudest VIP tents on the tour. (Prince William made an appearance the night before.)
Grant, who stars in A24's upcoming horror film “Heretic,” initially contacted the “Fortnight” singer's team because his daughter is “crazy about Taylor Swift,” he told NME in an interview published Tuesday.
“I put in some probes and, to my surprise, they said, 'Yes, come on,'” he said.
While his daughter and her friend “jumped” to each song, Grant said, he became friends with Swift's boyfriend, NFL tight end Travis Kelce. Along with a few others whom Grant assumed were rappers, they took shots of tequila and were “absolutely devastated.”
“Dear @taylorswift13, you have an amazing show, an amazing and very hospitable crew, and an excellent, albeit gigantic, boyfriend,” Grant wrote on unknown the next day. “Thank you very much from an elderly Londoner, wife and excited 8 year old boy.”
how fast responded: “Like Hugh Grant for a long time, this tweet is very important to my culture.”
Recalling his “extremely nice” feeling, Grant told NME that the “Miss Americana” star, with her three hours, multi-million dollar production – offers a “brilliant show”.
In fact, Swift seems to stay 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, nicknamed “Tayoomba,” suddenly stopped moving. (The mechanism usually spins for the duration of the number, with Swift swooping and stomping on top.)
Swift played around, dancing and singing down the runway as her dancers followed her. He then performed “Down Bad,” another song from his April album “The Tortured Poets Department,” without the platform for the first time.
Still, the stage malfunction wasn't the dramatic highlight of Swift's New Orleans career. During Saturday night's show, the billionaire hitmaker welcomed former opener Sabrina Carpenter to the stage to sing a medley of her twin singles “Espresso” and “Why Please Please” and his own “Is It Over Now.” ? (Taylor 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 his pop mentor's pulpit the “only stage I'd like to see on a day off.”
Carpenter “had a day off from her very exhaustive tour schedule,” Swift wrote Tuesday on Instagram. “His show is physically complete and spectacular, and he could have been resting in his free time.”
Still, the former Disney Channel star did “everything he could to give fans a surprise moment they weren't expecting. “She's as real as they come and I'm so grateful she did that for us,” Swift said, attaching a photo of the couple on stage.
Swift's tour continues Nov. 1 in Indianapolis, the last scheduled U.S. city, and officially concludes in December in Vancouver.
