Even the most laid-back celebrity buff would likely be aware of Taylor Swift’s close friendship with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
The trio have been incredibly good friends for years, so much so that Ryan literally lent Taylor his true dead Pool costume for Halloween 2016.
He and Blake also abandoned their lakeside home in New York for Taylor to shoot him Very good short film last year, and Blake recently directed the music video for Taylor’s song “I Bet You Think About Me.”
In return, Taylor often pays homage to Blake and Ryan’s children in her music, including sampling their then 2-year-old daughter James on her 2017 song “Gorgeous.”
According to People, Taylor played the unreleased song to his friends when they visited him one day, and after the personal performance, James became so obsessed with the word “beautiful” that Taylor recorded it while saying the word for it. introduce the song.
The proud parents were filmed jumping excitedly as ‘Gorgeous’ started on the show, and Blake later admitted to hello america“We were very embarrassed. It was the real, unfiltered version of our terrible stage parent pride.
However, she added that James was completely unaware of her claim to fame and that she didn’t let Taylor credit her daughter on the song because she wanted her children to have a normal life.
“Our kids are living very normal lives, as much as possible,” Blake explained. “So she didn’t even have a title on the album. I should be collecting royalties!”
In 2020, Taylor paid tribute to the children of Blake and Ryan for the second time by name-checking James and his two younger sisters — Inez and Betty — in her song “Betty,” which is featured on the Folklore album.
The song tells the story of a high school romance gone wrong, and each of the named characters is an obvious reference to the children of his close friends, which Ryan previously called “really amazing.”
“The names are the names of our children, but we trust him implicitly. She is very sensitive to all of this. And obviously the song has nothing to do with our children other than our children’s names,” he told SiriusXM at the time.
“But I mean, what an honor. We thought that was pretty damn amazing. We still do. You know, I’m still walking down the street and shaking my head thinking, I can’t believe this happened,” Ryan continued.
He then revealed that he and Blake “surprised” their daughters with the shoutout by not telling them that Taylor had used their names until they first heard the song.
“They didn’t know,” Ryan said. “They had no idea.”
And Ryan opened up about his children’s close relationship with Aunt Taylor in a new interview, where he recalled the exact moment James, Inez and Betty learned she was a global superstar.
“I think what’s most exciting for them is that for a very long time they just thought that Taylor was just, you know, like an aunt, like a friend to mom and dad who’s very, very close. , almost family,” he said in a new interview with SiriusXM.
“And then they went to a concert one day and were like, ‘Oh, oh, that’s not a hobby,'” Ryan laughed.
But the girls remain Taylor’s number one cheerleaders, with Ryan saying the singer’s new album Midnights is “like a religion” in their home.
He then sheepishly admitted, “Actually, I’m not making this up. We have a Taylor Swift Midnights dance party, uh, right after that. It is Sunday. We head straight to the porch where we do a full dance number to Midnights… swear words included.
“My favorite thing is when a 3-year-old throws the F-bomb in a song,” he added of his youngest daughter, Betty.
But Betty won’t remain the youngest of the clan for long, with Blake revealing she was pregnant in September.
Shortly after the news broke, Blake shared a selection of photos of her bump on Instagram as she urged the paparazzi to stop waiting outside her and Ryan’s house as it scared their children.
True to form, one of the photos featured Taylor, who could be seen smiling as she hugged Blake by a pool.
And Ryan recently admitted he’s ready to accept the title of ‘the ultimate dad girl’ as he shared his hope that his and Blake’s fourth child will be another girl.
Speaking on the Today show, the actor explained that he and Blake “never find out” the gender of their baby until birth.
“I know some girls, so I hope that!” Ryan then said, before quickly adding that he was “ready for whatever comes.”
