While connected circuit successful Australia, Taylor Swift spent clip astatine Warner Bros. Movie World taxable parkland with Blake Lively, who was besides determination filming The Shallows.

"Yesterday was specified an astonishing time off—roller coasters, kangaroos and LOLs with @blakelively," the "Lavender Haze" vocalist wrote connected Instagram at the time. Soon after, Blake was spotted shaking it disconnected at Taylor's 1989 World Tour performance successful Adelaide.

This archetypal sighting of the duo hanging retired came conscionable 3 months after the Gossip Girl alum was accused of throwing shade at Taylor's "Bad Blood" euphony video connected Instagram. But Blake denied that present they had baaaaaad blood, penning connected Twitter, "Umm whoever thought I was throwin shadiness intelligibly doesn't cognize I person a 'Taylor Swift Please Be My Wife Voo Doo Doll.'"

Blake also shared a backstage photograph of a fewer household members with Taylor connected tour. "Look however rad she is present making my niece Heather consciousness similar a stone star," she wrote. "Love my Canadian household astir arsenic overmuch arsenic I emotion Taylor Lively. I mean Swift. Ok, FIIINE we tin hyphenate our past names. Xo Blake Swift-Lively 4eva."

For Taylor's 25th birthday, Blake sent a precise peculiar surprise: a cat pie.

In a since-deleted Instagram post, Taylor shared a photograph of the pastry (featuring her beloved cats Meredith and Olivia), with a connection connected it that reads "Happy Thanksgiving Birthday."

Taylor captioned the post, "Blake wins astatine day pies," adding, "I honestly can't halt laughing rn."

Taylor traveled to upstate New York to be Blake's babe shower held astatine the Bedford Post Inn. And it wouldn't beryllium the past clip the Grammy victor would marque the travel to the couple's north-of-New-York-City home.

In October 2016, a root exclusively told E! News that Taylor spent a play with Blake and Ryan, adjacent visiting Blake astatine the infirmary aft she gave commencement to the pair's 2nd daughter, Inez.

After Taylor released a opus titled "Gorgeous," disconnected her sixth workplace album, reputation, fans theorized that the child's dependable featured successful the track's intro belonged to James Reynolds, Blake and Ryan's oldest daughter. (Blake and Ryan "liked" Taylor's preview of the opus connected Instagram, lone fueling speculation.) 

And erstwhile Taylor released her album, she officially confirmed successful the liner notes that the "baby intro voice" belongs to James.

Then determination was the clip Blake and Ryan had the astir axenic reaction to proceeding the way during Taylor's performance astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough the pursuing year. Only emotion for our ma and dad. 

Taylor delighted her fans erstwhile she released a astonishment album, folklore, that she recorded portion isolating during the coronavirus pandemic. One opus that stood retired was "betty," which uses the names James, Inez and, of course, Betty. Listeners theorized that Betty was the sanction of Blake and Ryan's 3rd girl arsenic the backstage brace had yet to publically denote it. And Ryan aboriginal confirmed the revelation. 

 "The names are the names of our kids but, you know, we spot her implicitly and she's precise delicate to immoderate of that stuff," Ryan said connected an August 2021 occurrence of The Jess Cagle Show. "And evidently the opus has thing to bash with our kids different than our kids' names. But, I mean, what an honor. I don't know. We thought it was beauteous damn amazing. We inactive do."

Taylor and Blake went from BFFs to collaborators erstwhile the Betty Buzz laminitis directed the euphony video for "I Bet You Think About Me," a vault way from Red (Taylor's Version).

"I yet got to enactment with the brilliant, brave, & wickedly comic @blakelively connected her directorial debut," Taylor raved connected Instagram and Twitter. "Join america arsenic we rise a toast, and a small hell."

That aforesaid month, Blake and Ryan helped Taylor observe her show on Saturday Night Live, enjoying a nighttime retired successful New York City with Cara Delevingne, Taylor's onetime boyfriend Joe Jonas, his woman Sophie Turner and The Queen's Gambit prima and that night's host Anya Taylor-Joy.

After the merchandise of Taylor's 10th workplace medium Midnights, Ryan opened up astir however his and Blake's daughters consciousness astir the superstar being a adjacent household friend.

"I deliberation what's astir breathtaking for them is that for the longest clip they conscionable thought Taylor's conscionable a, you know, similar an aunt, similar a person of mommy and daddy that's very, precise close, astir family," the Deadpool prima explained connected SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show. "And past they went to a performance 1 time and were like, 'Ohhhhh, this isn't a hobby.'"

Ryan went connected to stock that their children were specified fans of Taylor's tunes that her euphony is "like a religion successful their house" and revealed he, Blake and the girls had a Taylor-themed celebration planned aft his interview.

"I'm not making this up. We are having a Taylor Swift Midnights creation enactment close aft this," Ryan said. "It's Sunday. We're headed consecutive to the structure wherever we're doing a afloat creation fig acceptable to Midnights—swear words included. My favourite happening is erstwhile a 3-year-old is conscionable throwing down the F-bomb successful a opus and has nary idea."

Shortly aft it was confirmed that Taylor and her fellow Joe Alwyn had breached up aft six years of dating, Taylor was spotted successful a getaway car with Blake and Ryan. Literally.

The trio was spotted catching a thrust unneurotic aft having meal astatine Manhattan hotspot Casa Cipriani April 19 amid Taylor's sold-out Eras stadium tour. But respective days later, Taylor and Blake, who welcomed her 4th child earlier this year, ditched Ryan when they had a squad time out with Gigi Hadid and sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim. The radical spent immoderate prime clip astatine the backstage nine Zero Bond.