Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn’s love story is far from over.
According to Entertainment Tonight, the first outlet to break this unfortunate news, the singer and actor have ended their six-year long relationship.
A source told ET on Saturday that the split was reportedly amicable and “not dramatic”, adding that “the relationship had just run its course. So… [Alwyn] Not seen in any show.
In fact, Swift is currently on her The Eras tour, which heads to Tampa, Florida next week.
Swift and Eleven started dating in 2016.
The stars were extremely private during their time as a couple, rarely talking about each other in public and rarely being photographed together.
However, due to the length of their romance, there have been rumors of the pair getting engaged for a long time.
“If I had a pound for every time I think I’ve been told I’m engaged, I’d have a lot of pound coins,” Alwyn previously quipped to WSJ. magazine.
“I mean, the truth is, if the answer was yes, I would say no, and if the answer was no, I would say no,” he said when asked whether he was ready to exchange vows with the singer-songwriter.
In her track “Call It What You Want”, Swift addresses the beginning of her relationship with Alwyn.
“I wanna wear her initials/ On a chain around my neck, chain around my neck/ Not ’cause she own me/ But ’cause she really know me,” she sings on the single.
“More than what they can say, I / I remember the end of November, holding my breath / Slowly I said, ‘You don’t need to save me / But will you run away with me? ‘”
Swift, who has written several songs about her relationships over the years, also confirmed that the mega-hit “Lavender Haze” was inspired by her and Alwyn’s romance, specifically the lengths they went to to drown out all the noise outside. went for
“I happened upon the phrase ‘lavender mist’ when I was watching Mad Men, and I looked it up because I thought it sounded cool, and it turns out it’s a common phrase used in the ’50s. Where they would just describe being in love,” Swift said last year.
“If you were in the lavender mist it meant that you were in that all-pervading love glow.
“I thought that was really beautiful.”
Alwyn also wrote several songs for Swift under the pseudonym William Bowery.
The album Folklore took home the 2021 Grammy for Album of the Year, while Evermore was nominated for the same award at the 2022 ceremony.
Alwyn played a key role on each.
“Joe is the first person I play every single song I write, and I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine,” Swift said during her 2021 acceptance speech.
In September 2018, during an interview with British Vogue, Alwyn addressed his relationship with Swift for the first time, explaining why they preferred to keep their romance private.
“I know people want to know about that side of things,” Alwyn told the publication.
“I think we’ve successfully been very private and it’s sunk in for people now … but I really like talking about work.”