Madame Performative Privacy is back, snake fam. Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were spotted by a paparazzo – one would assume – going on a hike in Malibu. I thought she was spending so much time undercover in London with Joe, doing Sunday roasts with the Alwyn family and only going out with various wigs? Guess not. I thought she was SO off-grid with him that she completely forgets to even hang out with her girl squad? Well, that one might be true? You can see the photos here at E! News:
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn went into the woods for a romantic Malibu hike: https://t.co/5OC2WEszjs pic.twitter.com/ZcKQtOmOF2
— E! News (@enews) March 8, 2018
According to a source – who is clearly the paparazzo, one would assume – Taylor and Joe were seen hiking on Wednesday, and the hike lasted about 90 minutes. Tay wore her gym clothes but Joe was in jeans. The source says:
“Taylor looked quite exhausted from the hike but she looked very close to Joe, holding on to his arm and holding hands. They seemed very at ease with each other and relaxed. It’s a very scenic hike where you can enjoy amazing views over the ocean. They hiked for a total of 90 minutes. They appeared very comfortable in one another’s company and seemed to be enjoying their time together – despite having a bodyguard following their every move. They were deep in conversation for most of the hike and their attention was focused solely on one another.”
The onlooker adds that Swift and Alwyn both appeared to be in a “good mood and seemed very relaxed.” It looks like Swift is also wearing her “J” initial necklace in the photos, which she references in her song, “Call It What You Want.”
Swift is gearing up for the release of her “Delicate” music video this weekend and her Reputation tour, which kicks off in May. Just last week, the singer confirmed that Camila Cabello and Charli XCX will be joining her on tour.
Ah, a little bit of promotion before the release of “Delicate.” Now I get it. From what I’ve seen, Reputation did make a big splash in its debut, but sales have been underwhelming long-term for a Taylor album. There really hasn’t been a big, iconic smash single, and I’m not sure what fans can expect from the Reputation tour other than price gouging. Maybe this little Malibu stroll was Tay’s way of ginning up some excitement?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid.
They look like siblings
That will be their undoing. They’ll break up because they looked too much alike and she’ll write a song about it.
Holy large breast implants!
This is old news, she has these breasts since she dated Hiddleston in 2016. I really wished she opted for a cup or 2 smaller, they were too big for her frame when she was thinner, now in those hiking pictures, she just looks top-heavy and matronly.
Good for her. She looks great.
Do the paps just hang out on hiking trails, now? 😏
actually…in LA…yes they do
To be completely vain, it seems like she’s lost some of the weight she gained post receipts and Hiddlesbang
Really, she looks as wide as Alwyn in that Twitter picture. To me, her weight hasn’t changed since that Jingle Ball performance last year.
She actually looks like she gained some more weight to me in the hiking pictures on Twitter (I think the top and last pictures here are old). which is fine. It’s harder to keep off weight when you get closer to 30 and her parents are both quite large if I remember right.
Joe appears to have Resting Bitch Face
It’s strange that he never smiles or laughs when he’s with her.
I was just coming here to ask, has anyone ever seen him smile?
I’ve never seen him smile. How is he a model?
I thought it was funny they said “they looked comfortable and at ease with each other” in the link, I had to check the pictures out and she looks like she’s dying from heat exhaustion and he’s seriously scowling in every picture lol!
Oh, come on now! “Dark jeans and your Nikes”??? She really made him wear that right before releasing the video for “Delicate”? 🙂 Just come out already.
+1
HAHAHAHA I was totally coming to say that…..ridic.
I knoooooow. SO FAKE. Does she just not learn from her PR lessons?
Yes exactly!! A friend saw this and was confused why he was hiking in jeans. I guess TS-branding trumps comfort. Performative privacy is spot on.
Interesting …. at Page Six, the source did not hold back: “The witness added, ‘The other thing that struck me is that they kind of look exactly like each other, which is weird.’”
The article there must have not gone into enough details about how relaxed and happy they looked (which, in the photos, they absolutely do not), so this one is pepped up a bit?
is she wearing lipstick to go hiking or is the contrast/saturation just turned way way up?
…I’m one of Those Girls that wears lipstick to hike. I admit it! 😛 When I was a kid, my mom and I were going to the corner store to get milk and some vegetables and she put on lipstick; when I asked her why, since we were just walking two blocks, she said that if you leave the house without lipstick, you look ill. Always stuck with me. Plus, in high school, a make up artist that was doing my make up at the Lord & Taylor counter at the mall said that I had two different colored lips (I’m a South Asian WOC; my top lip is slightly more purply than my bottom lip, which is more pink), and laughed in a really cruel way. Lipstick minimizes the difference in coloring. For those reasons, I literally ALWAYS wear lipstick outside the house and YES I know I’m ridiculous. Maybe she too has some weird complex about lipstick? Perhaps after Red, when she was constantly wearing red lipstick to be “on brand?”
ehh… I wear my brightest reddest lipstick to zumba/tabata class/hiking etc
I’m that vain person who cant let go her lipstick
hahaha
he looks like a crier…. like when he cant find the car keys there’s a full on river of tears.
LMAO! I couldn’t put my finger on what was bugging me about him. I think you nailed it.
Delicate has a line about “dark jeans and your nikes, look at you” and people on tumblr (a site we know Taylor frequents) have pointed out that Joe never is seen wearing nikes. So that’s why he’s in dark jeans and nikes, she’s trying to make it seem like the song’s about him and not Karlie Kloss lol.
100%
Why would she drop hints about Karlie only to then get a fake boyfriend and make him wear nikes?
If she was trying to hide a relationship with a woman she wouldn’t be dropping obvious hints, that story doesn’t make sense to me.
There are theories about a lot of her lyrics, that’s how she sells the songs to her fanbase.
I know, but if she was trying to hide her love for Karlie, wouldn’t she refrain from something that (according to posters) obviously refers to Karlie? She could be bi, but I’m really not buying the whole “look at her lyrics” thing as some sort of evidence.
Also Karlie was a Nike model/brand ambassador when she and Taylor met.
In that e news picture they do look exactly like each other. Wow just wow. And they look miserable together. I hope I am right in believing her career is losing steam big time.
Dang, he’s hot. Also, I like her blue kicks. That’s all I’ve got.
I can’t make up my mind if I find him hot or not lol. In some pictures he looks really attractive but in most he appears so meh to me
He is as hot as oatmeal. They are so in love, but he always looks like want to die. Or murder someone. Toe are really the most plain and boring celeb couple. It isn’t surprised that GP don’t care about them. Poor Toe wan’t be a power couple.
Toe is the best moniker ever!! Thank you for that 🙂
So phony. My god. I can’t believe the lameness of it all.
She heard us talking.
But she is so private, how did this happen?! (LOL)
She’s trimmed down. She looks good. The couple is boring, because we don’t really know anything about him, which is a good thing for him.
You know who I found interesting that were papped out on a walk together at a park in California a month ago or so? Isla Fisher and Amal Clooney. I didn’t know they were friends.
The pics here are old I believe, she doesn’t look that trim in the 2nd photo here:
http://m.eonline.com/news/919365/taylor-swift-holds-joe-alwyn-close-during-rare-outing-in-malibu
Isla and Amal would be a couple of women I’d want to eavesdrop on conversations of. So cool that they’re friends!
I’ve yet to see a picture of this guy where he doesn’t look like he’s been hit in the face with a frying pan.
omg I just laughed so hard.
OMG totally!!! I don’t get the ‘gorgeous Joe’ thing, like at all…
His face is always in 2D.
pfffft! xD
I personally don’t find him attractive at all… but I know beauty is subjective so to each their own hehe
So private lol
He has “why did I think this contract was a good thing?” face.
She has “hmm, people love Meghan and Harry, so…..” arm hand.
Total PR stunt. I’m not hating, I mean I guess that’s just how it goes. But it’s so obvious – there’s no way I think paparazzi were just hanging out near a hiking trail. You can get papped better than that, c’mon girl, I thought your game was better lol, maybe she’s losing her mojo. Also, wow, this dude looks miserable in every picture I see of him. How can you be an actor if you don’t even know how to smile?
She has’t lost her mojo, it’s just not working on people anymore. Her Hiddleston show was so ridiculous, there was really no way it could be real. It clued even the most oblivious people in on how she uses fake boyfriends and pap walks to promote her brand.
Add to that Kim Kardashian exposing her as a liar… Well, people don’t like to be duped.
I legitimately forgot she had music out.
For a planned PR stunt, you would think they’d try to look happier and the handhold is just weird
The handhold is so weird. He is holding out on that handhold.
What is romantic about this hike E! News??
Don’t blame E! News. Taylor’s publicist probably sent the copy for the story over before anyone had seen the photos. I’m sure the web intern at E! just uploaded it without changing anything.
So, is there just the one hiking trail in LA? Why do we get all these pap shots of celebs hiking? The trail always looks the same.
hahahahahaha.
I love Taylor Swift and I love the song “Delicate”. I realize she isn’t popular or well-liked on this site, but I have always appreciated her for her ability to refrain from doing drugs, being a drunk and/or a general mess like so many younger celebrities. Is she perfect? Of course not. But she does seem to be a decent, hard working and talented woman who wants the same things we all want in life: stability, security, love.
Well she sing a lot about drinking now. And hs a lot of photos with drink – maybe she think that it will made her more mature. She never was and never will be decent. But hey you perfectly buy her PR.
Welll to Taylor fans and Taylor Moms “decent” has nothing to do with being ethical or of good moral character. To them decent or AKA “harmless” equals not being overtly sexual or drinking. The bar is set so low for her all she has to do is get one toe over it. It’s definitely interesting. Having sex is apparently the worst thing their daughters can do, not backstabbing others, lying, being a petty a-hole, etc. It’s enforcement of the patriarchy my women.
so true ORIGINAL T.C.
Oooh they got matching hair colour. How cute.
Someone’s not playing along with this little PR stunt.
That man looks like the Dementors took away every happy thought he’s ever had.
Trotting out the boyfriend ahead of a major tour kickoff or album release? Ah, right on schedule. I knew the old Taylor Swift wasn’t dead!
She looks too hot, and if I try to be charitable, he might be looking concerned for her. My sweetie certainly doesn’t look happy when he can tell I’m suffering but trying to tough it out.
However, he’s talking a bit too much for that take on it to read accurately. Maybe he’s feeling hot too? After all, he’s the one in jeans.
I dunno; I think they staged a healthful-looking pap stroll, but it was a bit too much exercise/heat/humidity for her, and he’s trying to pick up the slack by keeping things looking natural by keeping the conversation going, and it just doesn’t quite work.
She’s releasing bad singles off of that album. Delicate instead of Getaway Car?
hiking in jeans … why??
haha we know why.
I also love how the pictures make sure the nike logos are super visible.
bwahahah oh Taylor, can’t fault you for trying!
She’s not ranting about gender or politics so I’m good.