A Full Rundown of Taylor Swift's Hollywood Dating History

When: July 2008 – October 2008

Taylor’s first highly publicized relationship was with Jonas Brothers singer Joe Jonas. The pair dated for a few months before Taylor famously told Ellen DeGeneres that he broke up with her over a 27-second phone call. Taylor responded by writing the breakup songs “Last Kiss” and “Forever and Always” about him, but things got even more strained between them when Joe went on to date actress Camilla Belle. Taylor penned a fiery tune called “Better Than Revenge,” which includes lyrics aimed at Camilla like, “She’s an actress/But she’s better known/For the things that she does on the mattress.”

Joe later spoke out about the breakup in a MySpace post that read:

“Several things I will state with all my heart. I never cheated on a girlfriend. It might make someone feel better to assume or imply I have been unfaithful but it is simply not true. Maybe there were reasons for a breakup. Maybe the heart moved on. Perhaps feelings changed. I am truly saddened that anything would potentially cause you to think less of me.”

It looks like the phrase “time heals all wounds” is true, though, because the exes were eventually able to bury the hatchet. During a 2019 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Taylor admitted that she regrets putting Joe “on blast.”

When: March 2009 – April 2009

Sparks apparently flew between Lucas and Taylor when he costarred in her “You Belong With Me” music video, but their romance was short-lived. In an interview with MTV, Lucas revealed the reason behind why they couldn’t make things work. “We dated for a little bit, but there was no friction because we were too nice,” he explained. “We just really both liked each other . . . [but] most relationships work out cause you get along and then you don’t, and then you make up and it’s passionate, and with us I really just liked her as a friend.”

When: August 2009 – December 2009

After playing boyfriend and girlfriend in the 2010 rom-com Valentine’s Day, these two Taylors started dating for real. Although their relationship earned one of Hollywood’s cutest nicknames, “Taylor Squared,” a source close to the then-country singer told People, “They went out on a few dates and realized this was just not going anywhere.” The sad song “Back to December” off of Taylor’s Speak Now album is reportedly about the Twilight star, which expresses regret for how she ended things with him and has lyrics referencing his “tan skin” and “sweet smile.”

When: December 2009 – February 2010

Taylor was romantically linked to John Mayer when they collaborated on his song “Half of My Heart,” but things between the couple quickly soured. Taylor entitled the breakup song “Dear John” about him, which clearly didn’t hide who it was about. “There are things that were little nuances of the relationship, little hints,” she happily revealed. “Everyone will know, so I don’t really have to send out emails on this one.” With lyrics like “Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong / Don’t you think 19 is too young to be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so?” the “Daughters” singer was none too pleased.

“It made me feel terrible, because I didn’t deserve it,” he told Rolling Stone in a 2012 interview. “I’m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.”

When: October 2010 – January 2011

Jake and Taylor began quietly dating and sharing maple lattes together in the fall of 2010, and it was rumored Jake was so enchanted by her that he dropped $160,000 just so he could fly her in on a private jet for a date. Talk about getting bit by the love bug, huh?

By New Year’s Eve, however, Jake and Taylor had gone their separate ways. Tay got all of her emotions about their relationship out in “All Too Well,” with lyrics like, “Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze / We’re singing in the car, getting lost upstate / The Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.” Seeing as how their famous stroll in NYC happened in the fall, it’s safe to say that song is probably about him.

When: July 2012 – October 2012

Conor Kennedy struck up an intense summer romance with Taylor in 2012, which started that July when they were first spotted together sharing lunch at a pizza place in Mount Kisco, NY. The rest of that summer was filled with plenty more supercute, supercouple-y activities between the two, like making out at his family’s estate in Hyannis Port, MA, and splashing around in the ocean. It started to look like things between Taylor and Conor weren’t going so well when his family accused Taylor of crashing the wedding of Conor’s cousin Kyle in August. Her reps denied it, but it appeared the damage had been done. As the warmer months cooled off, so did Taylor and Conor’s relationship. They split by October.

When: December 2012 – January 2013

Taylor’s roller coaster relationship with One Direction’s Harry Styles might have only lasted a month, but it had to have been passionate. How else did she get an entire album out of it?! Harry and Taylor were seen strolling through NYC in December 2012 and even ushered in the new year with a kiss at midnight. Before January was over, they’d called it quits, and one of Taylor’s biggest singles off of Red, “I Knew You Were Trouble,” started a long list of songs inspired by him.

When: March 2015 – June 2016

Taylor first met Scottish DJ Calvin Harris when mutual friend Ellie Goulding introduced them at the Elle Style Awards in February 2015. By March, they were inseparable. With their romance clocking in at just over a year, the two went on a number of cute dinner dates and packed in plenty of award show PDA. Although Calvin and Taylor had heaps of nice things to say about each other, they broke up not long after celebrating their one-year anniversary and just shortly after Calvin got into a car crash.

Their split seemed to be amicable at first, but when Taylor was seen kissing Tom Hiddleston two weeks after breaking things off with Calvin, the DJ was left “hurt” and “blindsided,” according to sources. Calvin took down the tweet he posted that asserted their breakup was full of “respect” and “love,” and he also claimed in a series of tweets that Taylor’s team was deliberately trying to make him look bad after it was revealed Taylor wrote Calvin’s hit song, “This Is What You Came For.” He eventually opened up about his social media rant, saying he just “snapped.”

When: June 2016 – September 2016

At the 2016 Met Gala, Taylor was seen tearing up the dance floor with actor Tom Hiddleston. Still, the photos of her and Tom cuddling and smooching on a beach in Rhode Island that hit the internet two weeks after her breakup with Calvin Harris came as a surprise. Their whirlwind, PDA-filled romance took them all over the globe, with stops in Italy, Tennessee, Rhode Island, New York City, Australia, and England.

The two called it quits after just three months because Tom reportedly wanted the romance to be more public. A few months later, he responded to rumors that their relationship was all for show, telling GQ: “Of course it was real. Taylor is an amazing woman. She’s generous and kind and lovely, and we had the best time.”

When: Probably the End of 2016 – Present

After splitting from Tom Hiddleston (and having a reignited feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West), Taylor disappeared almost entirely from the spotlight. She was no longer active on social media, she didn’t attend any events, and there were virtually no paparazzi photos of her. But while she laid low professionally, her romantic life was heating up again.

News broke in May 2017 that Taylor was dating English actor Joe Alwyn and that their under-the-radar romance had been going on for months. In one of the deluxe versions of Lover, Taylor alluded that they officially started dating sometime around late September/early October. They’ve kept their romance pretty under the radar since, but recently, Taylor gave him a shout-out during her acceptance speech at the Grammys. “Joe, who is the first person that I play every single song that I write, and I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine,” she said. Aww!