Is Taylor Swift dating Matty Healy?

Taylor Swift has apparently moved on from her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Recent rumors suggest that the ‘Anti-Hero’ singer is involved with The 1975 lead singer Matty Healy.

However, Healy has also previously stated that he felt dating Swift would be “a de-masculinizing, emasculating thing”. Still, recent reports suggest that the new pair are “madly in love” and are on the verge of going public.

According to reports from The Sun and celebrity gossip Instagram account DeuxMoi, the two are romantically involved and will go public later this week. It’s also rumored that Swift’s long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff set them up together.

“She and Matty are madly in love,” the source for The Sun claimed, “It’s super-early days, but it feels right. They first dated, very briefly, almost 10 years ago but timings just didn’t work out.”

Addressing the 2014 romance rumors

Taylor and Matty were reportedly romantically involved briefly in 2014, but the timings didn’t work out. In an interview with Q Magazine at the time, Healy addressed the romance rumors.

“It’s not really anything to talk about, because if she wasn’t Taylor Swift we wouldn’t be talking about her,” Healy claimed. “She wasn’t a big impact on my life. It’s just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift.”

“I feel like I’m not very good at relationships,” and when asked if the reason for this was “a fear of losing himself,” Healy nods before saying: “Absolutely. And the reason I mention that is because if I had [properly] gone out with Taylor Swift the first thing I would’ve [thought was] ‘F****** hell I am NOT being Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.’ You know, F***. THAT.”

“That’s also a man thing, a de-masculinating, emasculating thing,” he then added, as “an afterthought.”

Clarifying his comments

Following the interview, Healy faced backlash for his comments, he went to Twitter to clarify his comments shortly after.

“Now I may admit to being an idiot on occasion, but I am not a misogynist. This suggestion makes me really sad,” Healy wrote in a now-deleted Tweet.

His next Tweet reads, “I was for a very short time immersed in a celebrity world that I found confusing and scary. At that time, I had fears of being ‘somebody’s boyfriend’ (remember this is all speculation as we never dated!) before even being recognized for my music or presence as a person in my own right.”

Healy then continued: “Now I don’t pride myself on being more intelligent, or worldly, or wise, or progressive, or even regressive than the next man but I DO pride self on being honest. I was being HONEST about all the thoughts, feelings, and situations that come along when people ASSUME you are dating the most famous woman on the planet. I am telling you from experience it’s an all-consuming whirlwind and something that for me elicited a lot of self-exploration.”

Healy’s now deleted Tweets

In two follow-up Tweets, Healy debunks the Swift dating rumors entirely. Swift herself did not comment on the statement, nor has she confirmed the current speculation that the two are involved.

“Now if you want to talk about Taylor Swift, that is easy.... Since she came to my show in December of 2014, I would say that 90 perfect of journalists that have interviewed me have asked about either her as a person or what our ‘interaction’ was like. I have said on countless occasions that I found her to be one of the most gracious, hard working, creatively gifted, and beautiful women that I have had the pleasure to meet. I personally have a lot of respect and admiration for her. Why would I not?” he added.

Healy then concluded his posts, by saying: “I didn’t even date Taylor, but the media’s incessant and brutal obsession with her has meant that even a guy who DIDN’T DATE HER has been so battered by their never-ending questions that he’s inevitably said something that can be lifted and molded into something that resembles ‘shade.’ It’s really sad.”