Taylor Swift & Blake Lively’s Friendship Timeline: A Guide to Their Best Moments Together
Blake and Taylor’s friendship goes all the way back to 2015! See all of their best moments together from then to now.
True Swifties weren’t surprised to see Taylor Swift hanging out with Blake Lively on multiple occasions in the past year. In fact, the singer-songwriter and the actress have been buddies for almost a decade now. Back in 2015, the dynamic duo were rumored to have had a tiff, but Blake quickly shut down the speculation, and they’ve been inseparable friends since then.
Have a look through Taylor and Blake’s full friendship timeline.
2015
6 years ago today, taylor swift 5 and her bff blake lively at australia’s movie world theme park in queensland.
december 6, 2015 pic.twitter.com/nCMtxic8Ce
— Taylor Throwbacks (@ThrowbackTaylor) December 6, 2021
In September 2015, fans assumed that Blake was throwing shade at Taylor’s “Bad Blood” music video. However, the Simple Favor actress promptly squashed feud rumors by taking to social media and writing, “Umm whoever thought I was throwin shade clearly doesn’t know I have a ‘Taylor Swift Please Be My Wife Voo Doo Doll’ #obsessed. Love my Canadian family almost as much as I love Taylor Lively. I mean Swift. Ok, FIIINE we can hyphenate our last names. Xo Blake Swift-Lively 4eva [sic].”
Two months later, Taylor and Blake hung out in Australia together to visit the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park.
2016
Blake brought her husband, Ryan Reynolds, to Taylor’s 4th of July party in July 2016, as they all appeared in social media photos together at the time. That December, Blake publicly wished Taylor “Happy Birthday” via Instagram, sharing a selfie of them together.
2017
Amid Taylor’s Reputation era, Blake and Ryan cheered Taylor on at one of her concerts when the recording artist used their daughter James’ voice for the beginning of the song “Gorgeous.”
2018
RYAN REYNOLDS AND BLAKE LIVELY REACTION’S WHEN THEY HEAR THEIR DAUGHTER’S VOICE AT THE START OF GORGEOUS AT THE CONCERT OF TAYLOR SWIFT IS THE CUTEST THING pic.twitter.com/nTl4pDaOUK
— tiny t⎊ny (@woIvern) July 29, 2018
Over the summer of 2018, Blake hilariously opened up about a video of her and Ryan smiling and shouting after hearing their daughter’s voice in “Gorgeous.”
“That was the true, unfiltered version of our terrible stage parent pride,” the Gossip Girl alum said “on Good Morning America. “Our kids have very normal lives, as much as that’s possible. So she didn’t even get a title on the album. I should be collecting royalties!”
2019
Ryan and Blake attended a few of Taylor’s parties, including her New Year’s soiree and her birthday bash at the end of the year.
2020
In 2020, Taylor released her song “Betty,” in which she nods to both of Ryan and Blake’s daughters James and Inez.
“You heard the rumors from Inez / You can’t believe a word she says,” Taylor sings at one point. “I was walking home on broken cobblestones / Just thinking of you when she pulled up like / A figment of my worst intentions / She said ‘James, get in, let’s drive.”
2021
the best scene from the “I bet you think about me” music video 😭 #TaylorSwift pic.twitter.com/qohkBN3pl8
— clips and edits (@b1mSj3chHL11532) November 22, 2023
While accepting the Album of the Year award at the 2021 Grammys, Taylor thanked Ryan and Blake and “Betty, James and Inez” in her speech. In October of that year, the recording artist went trick-or-treating with Blake and Ryan’s kids in New York City.
By the end of the year, Blake had directed Taylor’s music video for “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version).”
“I finally got to work with the brilliant, brave, & wickedly funny @blakelively on her directorial debut. Join us as we raise a toast, and a little hell,” Taylor captioned an Instagram post at the time.
2022
Throughout 2022, Taylor and Blake were seen hanging out together, including in a photo within Blake’s pregnancy announcement. Not one that, but Taylor even gave a nod to Blake’s performance in A Simple Favor by wearing an outfit that resembled that of her character’s to the Tribeca Film Festival.
2023
After Taylor and her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn broke up, she and Blake were spotted spending time together in April 2023. The following month, Taylor shouted out Blake’s whole family during an Eras Tour concert.
By the end of the year, Taylor brought Blake to football games after Taylor went public with her and Travis Kelce’s relationship.
2024
Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, Lana Del Rey and Blake Lively react to the Chiefs winning the #SuperBowl.
— Pop Base (@PopBase) February 12, 2024
Blake was spotted attending the Super Bowl with Taylor, and the actress even donned a red outfit for the occasion to cheer on the Chiefs.