What is Taylor Swift’s net worth, is she friends with Ed Sheeran, when did she break up with Tom Hiddleston and how old is she?
The pop starlet's 1989 tour made a quarter of a billion dollars last year
TAYLOR Swift is arguably the world’s biggest pop star and has the bank account to prove it.
The Blank Space star also has a wealth of showbiz friends and ex-boyfriends under her belt.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Taylor Swift is global megastar singer-songwriter.
She was born on 13 December 1989 in Pennsylvania, America
She moved to Nashville at the age of 14 to pursue a country music career, and the rest is history.
Taylor is known for songs like Shake It Off, Blank Space, Trouble and Love stories, as well as albums Fearless, Red and 1989.
She has sold millions of albums and singles across the globa and is a worldwide superstar
How much is Taylor Swift worth?
have estimated Taylor’s net worth as being a staggering $250 million, just under £200 million.
The Grammy Award winner travelled the world on her 1989 tour over the past year earning her a quarter of a billion dollars last year.
The singer also has multiple sponsorship deals with brands including Elizabeth Arden, Target, Diet Coke, Keds and Apple which help pad her income.
Taylor has been working since she was 16, when she released her first album.
In addition to her music career, Swift has appeared as an actress in the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009), the romantic comedy Valentine’s Day (2010) and the animated film The Lorax (2012).
The seven bedroom mega-pad also came with two hectares of land – perfect room for taking all those Instagram photos.
Back when she was a country star Taylor splashed out on two properties in Nashville.
She bought the first, a £1.5 million penthouse downtown in the city, when she was just 20.
Swift’s second Nashville property is £2 million historic mansion, reportedly bought for her family, then sold in 2011.
With all her earnings the one-time country starlet has gathered up a property portfolio said to be worth around £50 million.
The Welcome To New York singer bought a penthouse in the Tribeca district of the city. Many paparazzi shots have been taken as she leaves the building. This was said to have cost Taylor around £15million.
Her Rhode Island mansion, the scene of those first Hiddleswift snaps, cost the singer £13 million. It sits on top of a hill and offers unspoiled views of the beach.
Other properties include a four bedroom home in Beverley hills complete with a white picket fence and that Massachusetts mansion she bought when dating Connor Kennedy.
With two break ups in the past few months Taylor is sure to have an album’s worth of inspiration up her sleeve.
1989 sold 1.287 million copies in the first week of its release, we’ll have to wait and see if her Hiddleston/Harris break up record can replicate that success.
What is her relationship with Ed Sheeran? Are they friends?
Taylor has been friends with Ed Sheeran for years after he supported her on her 2013 Red world tour.
They even teamed up for hit song Everything Has Changed.
We revealed that Ed has hinted he bedded one of Taylor’s “squad” whilst on that tour.
Speaking to rolling Stone he said: “I was this 22-year-old awkward British kid going on tour with the biggest artist in America, who has all these famous mates.
“It was very easy. I would often find myself in situations just kind of waking up and looking over and being like, ‘How the f*** did that happen?’”
Taylor said of Ed: “We’ve gotten matching Scottish fold (cats), made each other arts and crafts Christmas presents, vacationed with our families, and had each other’s backs.
“He is the James Taylor to my Carole King and I can’t imagine a time when he wouldn’t be.”
When did Taylor Swift date Tom Hiddleston? How long did the relationship last?
Taylor and Tom started dating after they met at the Met Gala back in May 2016, soon after Taylor’s split from Scottish DJ Calvin Harris.
Their romance was exposed by exclusive photographs in The Sun, but after flaunting their love in numerous cities around the world, the couple split in September.
Speaking to last month about his relationship with Taylor, he said: “Taylor is an amazing woman. She’s generous and kind and lovely, we had the best time. Of course it was real.”
Who else has Taylor Swift dated?
Taylor has dated a long line of profile men, and famously many of them end up in her songs.
Calvin Harris was the most recent before Tom, and will be concerned he will end up in a new track
The Shake It Off star famously wrote Out Of the Woods and Style, which are featured on 1989, about her relationship with One Direction hunk Harry Styles.
Other former loves to get a mention include movie star Jake Gyllenhaal, who was reportedly behind the song The Last Time from Red.
Her time with singer Joe Jonas also was apparently the inspiration for Last Kiss from her album Speak Now.
Who is Taylor Swift’s Squad?
Taylor’s squad includes a mixture of actresses and singers.
Actresses include Jamie King, Hailee Steinfeld, Sarah Hyland, and Emma Stone.
Singers include Lorde, Selena Gomez and Ellie Goulding.
Models include Martha Hunt, Lily Aldridge, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid, and Cara Delevingne.
Many of the people in the squad have even appeared in Taylor’s Bad Blood music video as well as onstage with Taylor at various stops during her 1989 World tour.