Taylor Swift flying to London for music video shoot
Taylor Swift will film her Elizabeth Taylor music video in London in tribute to the late actress.
Taylor Swift is flying to London to shoot her next music video.
The 35-year-old singer will reportedly be in the UK next week to work on a promo for her The Life Of A Showgirl track Elizabeth Taylor, because she wanted to "pay homage" to the titular late actress by honouring her early life in the city.
A source told The Sun on Sunday newspaper's Bizarre column: “Taylor is super excited to be back in London filming for her new music video.
“Elizabeth Taylor is a British icon and Taylor wants to pay homage by shooting scenes in the capital.
“Taylor has always written about her love for London, and the video will capture different locations around the city.”
Dame Elizabeth - who died in 2011 aged 79 - was born in Hampstead, north London, and her childhood home has a blue plaque commemorating the fact she lived there before her family moved to Los Angeles when she was seven years old.
Taylor previously revealed she was drawn to the eight-times married screen legend after the Cleopatra actress' son, Chris Wilding, compared her to his mom in an interview.
In a video posted on TikTok, Taylor explained: "My parents sent me this clip of Elizabeth Taylor’s son saying something very flattering, that if there were one person he might compare to his mother in the modern day, in terms of persona and … the chaos around us, he said it would be me.
"I was so flattered by that."
The Fate of Ophelia singer started bouncing ideas off her fiance Travis Kelce as she was working on lyrics for the track.
She added: "I just immediately started talking to Travis about it. I was going on and on about Elizabeth Taylor, talking about all the things about her that I loved … how she kept challenging herself late into her life.
"I had to get out of the car, I was like: 'One sec, I have to get out of the car for a second,' and I just sang this melody into my phone, got back in the car and …that’s what it’s like when it happens."
Chris - whose father was the actress' second husband Michael Wilding - compared his mother to Taylor in a 2024 interview with the Guardian newspaper.
He told the publication: "I can’t tell you how much I admire Taylor Swift. I’m now a Swifty. [Her Instagram post] at the end of that presidential debate was so f****** great. Huge props to her. That reminds me a little bit of the same spirit my mom had."
