Watch:Graham Norton Reveals the Sweet Request Taylor Swift Had for Talk Show Appearance
Taylor Swiftkeeps her side of the street clean—andGraham Nortonknows exactly what she means.
After the “Karma” singer appeared on an October episode ofThe Graham Norton Show, the late night host revealed her sweet request for attending alongsideGreta Lee,Lewis Capaldi,Cillian Murphy,Jodie Turner-SmithandDomhnall Gleeson.
“She was a very late booking,” Norton admitted in an interview withBritish GQearlier this month. “So we thought, ‘We’re going to have to bump somebody.’”
But Swift didn’t want to create a blank space on someone else’s calendar.
“Word came back from Taylor,” Norton continued. “No one must be bumped.”
And as it turned out, all Swift’s fellow guests had to do was stay to get a part in her “Opalite” music video.
“That was a good show to be on,” Norton mused. “Because everyone ended up in her ‘Opalite’ music video.”
Indeed, inspiration struck the Grammy winner when fellow guest Gleeson joked about wanting to be in one of her music videos
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“The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination,” Swift explained of the moment in an Instagram post about the video in February. “He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an idea.”
Immediately, Swift was pacing in her pen. “So a week later he received an email script I’d written for the ‘Opalite’ video,” she recalled, “where he was playing the starring role.”
But Swift wanted to give the chance for all her fellowGraham Nortonguests to bejeweled.
“I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on TheGraham NortonShow that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too,” she continued. “Like a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video.”
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And it’s a moment Swift will always remember in the back of her mind.
“I had more fun than I ever imagined,” she mused. “Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices.”
For more fascinating facts about Swift, keep reading…
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2. She grew up on a Christmas tree farm with her family in Pennsylvania. She references her time there on her holiday song of the same name.
3. She’s named after James Taylor. That’s right, from one music legend to another.
5. She gave Eric Church her first gold record. Back in 2006, she joined Rascal Flatts on their tour after Church was fired. “Actually, she called me after I got fired. I read in the paper that we were fired. She called and said ‘I want you to know that I love what you do,'” Church previously told the Arizona Daily Star. “I joked with her, ‘This is your crowd; they’re going to love you. You’re going to owe me your first gold record.’ I was kidding, but when she got her first gold record she gave me one. It came with a note: ‘Thanks for playing too long and too loud on the Flatts tour. I sincerely appreciate it. Taylor.'”
7. Her drink of choice? Vodka and Diet Coke, as revealed in that same Vogue video.
8. She turned off her comments on <a href="https://todaytrendnews7.com/truth-social-will-sell-wall-street-quicker-access-to-posts/” title=”Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts”>social media to “block some of the noise.” In her essay for Elle, entitled “30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30,” Taylor explained, “social media can be great, but it can also inundate your brain with images of what you aren’t, how you’re failing, or who is in a cooler locale than you at any given moment. One thing I do to lessen this weird insecurity laser beam is to turn off comments. Yes, I keep comments off on my posts. That way, I’m showing my friends and fans updates on my life, but I’m training my brain to not need the validation of someone telling me that I look [fire emojis].”
10. She’s the youngest solo artist to win Album of the Year. T.Swift was just 20 when she won the top honors in 2010 for her beloved album, Fearless.
12. The singer’s album, Lover, sold over 1 million pure copies in the United States in its first few months alone, according to Chart Data. This was the first album to reach this milestone in 2019.
14. As a child, Taylor wanted to be a stockbroker, just like her dad! But she went on to find her true calling in music, later moving from Pennsylvania to Tennessee with her family to kick off her career.
15. She learned to play guitar around the age of 12 after learning a few chords from a technician who was fixing her computer. She then went on to write her first song, “Lucky You.”
17. She wrote her own monologue for her appearance on Saturday Night Live in 2009, which doesn’t usually happen with celeb guests. Taylor clearly impressed the team with “Monologue Song (La La La).”
18. She’s been BFFs with Selena Gomez since their respective relationships with the Jonas Brothers. (ICYMI, SelGo even supported her best friend in Nov. 2021 when she returned to SNL to perform the 10-minute version of “All Too Well.”) Back in 2008, Taylor spent time with Joe Jonas, while Gomez dated his younger brother, Nick Jonas. The two quickly became close pals, and have remained tight to this day. Taylor even offered to be the flower girl in Gomez’s wedding to fiance Benny Blanco.
20. She’s a godmother, holding that distinction for pal Jaime King’s son Leo Thames and BFF Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ daughters James, Inez and Betty.
22. She doesn’t have X, formerly known as Twitter, on her phone. In an interview with Billboard, Taylor explained, “Sometimes, when I open Twitter, I get so overwhelmed that I just immediately close it. I haven’t had Twitter on my phone in a while because I don’t like to have too much news. Like, I follow politics, and that’s it. But I don’t like to follow who has broken up with who, or who wore an interesting pair of shoes. There’s only so much bandwidth my brain can really have.”
25. Taylor is a billionaire! According to an Oct. 2024 report published by Bloomberg, after breaking records in the industry for over a decade, Taylor’s Eras Tour helped her achieve billionaire status.
26. The 2019 Netflix film, Someone Great, inspired her music, “I cried watching the movie. For about a week, I start waking up from dreams that I’m living out that scenario—that that’s happening to me,” she told Elvis Duran during an interview. “I’d have these lyrics in my head based on the dynamics of these characters and I went in the studio with Jack Antonoff.” The studio session led to the creation of Taylor’s song, “Death By a Thousand Cuts.”
27. She has a special place for her most emotional songs. From “All Too Well” to “The Archer,” the superstar reserves the fifth spot on her albums for a ballad.
28. She’s over hiding from cameras: In fact, she’s proudly supported fiancé Travis Kelce at NFL games since 2023. “When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she told Time. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”
30. The engagement also helped inspire Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 word of the year, “Parasocial.”
31. Taylor made history following the Oct. 2025 release of her album, The Life of a Showgirl, which sold 2.7 million copies in its first day of release, according to the AP.
32. Oh, and the album went on to sell 4 million copies in its first week alone.
34. After a years-long battle, Taylor shared in May 2025 that she’d obtained the master recordings of her first six albums.
“That’s how I spent that Eras Tour money,” Taylor shared on The Stephen Colbert Show Dec. 10. “My fans are why I was able to get my music back.”
35. Taylor and her Eras band rehearsed surprise songs “quietly” on the tour so that fans outside the stadiums wouldn’t hear.
36. At the end of each leg of the Eras Tour, Taylor gifted her crew bonuses, her docuseries confirmed.
