Earlier today, we reported that hackers were threatening to release nude Taylor Swift photos obtained by breaking into the singer’s Twitter and Instagram accounts. It now looks as though the crisis has been averted, as crack social media security teams immediately got the situation under control, locking Taylor’s account and reportedly tracking down the parties responsible. Considering the fallout from The Fappening and the Sony hacking scandal, Taylor was pretty fortunate in this case. But that doesn’t mean she’s emerged from the scandal entirely unscathed. Screen shots of Twitter direct messages that were allegedly taken from Taylor’s inbox have been making the rounds online, and they’re every bit as harmlessly goofy-cute as you would expect: Yes, it seems that Swifty likes to play poker (or Go Fish, who knows with her?) with none other than former Disney boy-bander Nick Jonas. It’s an interesting development (thus far, the only interesting development to come out of this scandal), as Swift dated Joe Jonas (Nick’s older brother and former bandmate) early in her career. In fact, Joe was the first ex to inspire one of the classic breakup anthems that helped launch Swifty’s career, so perhaps it’s not surprising that she’s still tight with his family. Hey, Taylor hung with Harry Styles last week; she’s clearly not the type to hold grudges. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised to find out that she gets together with the boys of 1D for epic all-night games of Risk. Please let that be true. 11 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift! 1. Her First Job Was Knocking Bugs Out of Christmas Trees We’re guessing she prefers singing.
These days, Taylor Swift is as wholesome a figure as you’ll find in the American music industry. But it’s not easy getting to the top, and just about anyone who’s experience Swift’s level of success has a few skeletons in the closet. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the Myth of Taylor Swift is coming into question a bit now that 1989 is the best-selling album of the year and the 25-year-old from Reading, PA is the undisputed queen of pop music. The latest revelations about Taylor’s somewhat mysterious past come from an unlikely source: 9 Surprising Taylor Swift Facts! 1. She’s Never Been in Love! Yes, the woman who’s as famous for her dating life as for her music says that when she looks back on her relationships, she realizes none of them were “real love.” Ronald Cremer is a computer technician from Taylor’s hometown. A reporter from the New York Daily hunted Cremer down recently to find out just how much of the official story of Swift’s early career is accurate. Taylor herself has referred to the moment she met Cremer as a “magical twist of fate.” He was reportedly fixing her family’s PC in 2002, when he spotted 12-year-old Taylor’s guitar and offered to teach her a few chords. The rest, as they say, is history. Or it would be, if that were really what happened: “I did do computer work for them,” Cremer says “But the computer work came after I started doing guitar work.” So the story of a chance encounter between a computer expert and a young girl with a guitar and a dream (that Taylor has told several times in interviews) is apparently BS. Cremer says he was already a well-known local musician and producer at the time, and that he first met Taylor when her parents brought the young girl to his studio to record a demo. 11 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift! 1. Her First Job Was Knocking Bugs Out of Christmas Trees We’re guessing she prefers singing. Cremer believes Swift’s PR team concocted the “twist of fate” story because the truth of Taylor’s obsessive stage mom paying him handsomely to work with her daughter several days a week just isn’t as appealing to the masses. “A 36-year-old bald guy taught her,” Cremer says. “That ain’t gonna sell…The first couple months, I thought it was a joke. I thought, here’s a bunch of rich people…” Cremer says he not only taught Taylor how to play guitar, but how to write songs and promote herself as well. As you’d expect from any 12-year-old, Swift often acted as though she’d rather be doing something else. But her mother, Andrea Swift wouldn’t allow any sort of slacking. Cremer recounts a time when Taylor’s dad opened up to him about the dysfunctional nature of the Swift family: “‘I got a wife who doesn’t love me,'” Scott Swift allegedly said to Cremer one night. ‘”I’m trying to help my daughter out and do the right things, but my wife couldn’t care less.'” Cremer recalls another episode in which Taylor and her brother were both clamoring for their mother to let them have Taco Bell for lunch: “Her brother Austin, who was a little chubby at the time – he’s not that now – he wanted Taco Bell,” Creme recalls. “Taylor says, ‘I want Taco Bell too. Her mother went out and got Taco Bell, but only gave it to Austin, because she said, ‘Nobody wants to see a fat pop star.'” Taylor Swift: Hot in New York! 1. Taylor Swift: Hot in NYC Taylor looked better than ever as she stepped out in Manhattan today. NYC seems to agree with her! As for the rumor that Taylor grew up on a Christmas tree farm , Cremer says she was actually the daughter of a wealthy investor for Merrill Lynch. “Nobody buys a Christmas tree there,” Cremer says, referring to the Swifts’ expansive property. He compares the efforts to craft a fairy tale-like backstory for Taylor to the 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter. He’s also quick to point out, however, that a young singer with a rural background named Robert Zimmerman famously left behind his rural past for a new start in NYC and completely reinvented himself on arrival. You might know him better as Bob Dylan.
It’s been a gross day for celebrity sex toy shenanigans. First, Dean McDermott stopped by a sex shop while his wife was in the hospital for a nervous breakdown. Now, in an apparent attempt to one-up that act of nastiness, Farrah Abraham has started selling plastic molds of her vagina while dressed as a beloved Disney character. Yes, we already knew Farrah Abraham sells sex toys , but we didn’t know she hawks her wares while dressed as Queen Elsa from Frozen. Is this the grossest thing Farrah has done in her brief career as a porn star/Christian parenting guru? Not by a long shot, but it’s still pretty gross. What’s really surprising is that she still feels the need to show up to this sort of event (this particular shindig took place at the Hustler store in LA). Last we heard, Farrah earns $544,000 a year from stripping . Yes, that’s over half a million a year all because she got knocked up as a teen and is now willing to take her clothes off for strangers. We’ll wait while you dry your tears with your bachelor’s degree. When you’re done weeping, watch Teen Mom online at TV Fanatic to see how it all began. 25 Most Cringe-Worthy Farrah Abraham Pics 1. Farrah Abraham Vagina Costume Farrah Abraham dresses up like a vagina. You cannot make this stuff up.
This just in: people really like Taylor Swift. As if the gushing reviews for her new album didn’t make that clear enough, consider the early sales figures: It is already on pace, after barely one day of release, to move 1,000,000 copies in a week. This would make “1989” just the 19th record to EVER sell one million copies in seven days since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. It would also make the album the first in 2014 to do so, while making Swift the first singer to have three separate million-selling weeks. In 2010, “Speak Now” moved 1.05 million copies and “Red” then sold 1.21 million two years later. If “1989” crossed the one million plateau, Swift will notch the biggest sales week for an album since… her very own “Red” in 2012. So clearly Swift being absolutely EVERYwhere these days – from closing down Hollywood Boulevard to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live… to appearing on The Voice last night – hasn’t made folks sick and/or tired of Taylor Swift. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s merely helped proved one very simply fact: This is Taylor Swift’s universe. The rest of us are merely existing within it. 11 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift! 1. Her First Job Was Knocking Bugs Out of Christmas Trees We’re guessing she prefers singing.
Taylor Swift. You think you know everything about her, and who could blame you? She’s been writing deeply personal lyrics since she was in her teens, and her love life has served as frequent tabloid fodder for almost as long. Taylor’s many relationships with celebrities have been publicly dissected to the point that you may remember more about her breakups than your own. But though she’s been woefully unlucky in love and has occasionally vented her frustrations in song form, Taylor is far more mature, intelligent, and well-rounded than most celebs her age. As such, there are a lot of Swifty facts and foibles that you may not be aware of: 11 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift! 1. Her First Job Was Knocking Bugs Out of Christmas Trees We’re guessing she prefers singing. For example, did you know that Taylor made SNL history as the first ever host to write her own monologue? Or that she won a national poetry award while still in grade school? Yes, there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to the Pennsylvania girl who grew up on a Christmas tree farm. Speaking of eyes: Taylor is blind as a bat! Yes, it’s hard to believe given her flawless fashion sense, but Taylor has terrible vision, and is entirely dependent on glasses or contacts to get through her day. Not surprisingly, that’s one biographical factoid that’s never made it into one of her songs. Jump into the gallery above to find out about Taylor’s first public performance, which family member was also a famous singer, and of course, all the deets on her unique crafting talents.
