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In December 2006, Taylor Swift spent around three hours to sing a small round of about 45 guests in Jeff Jarrett’s house in Tennessee. In a current interview with “TMZ Sports”, the WWE-Hall-of-Famer remembered the “incredible experience”, in which the freshly started singer, whose debut album had just appeared with “Tim McGraw”, played an intimate private concert for his family. Just a few months before his wife died.
Swift’s close bond with the family
“It was Christmas 2006. My first wife [Jill Gregory] was difficult to get breast cancer. She died about five months later, so she was very sick at the time, “said Jarrett. Swift, who often watched the daughters as a family friend, was that made the concert possible at all.” The girls wanted them to sing and play, “continued Jarrett. For that, Swift even had to go home to get her guitar again.
“She established a close connection to the family, especially to the girls,” said Jarrett. Even after the death of Gregory, Swift kept in touch. “It was a very special relationship that developed. When my wife died, Taylor continued to come over and was really good with the girls.”
To this day, Jarrett has contact with Swift’s father Scott Swift and is happy about the development of the musician. “It is very nice to see this side of Taylor. It is now in early 30, and I can well imagine how Scott and Andrea have grandchildren who run through the house at some point. It is great to observe their development not only professionally but also privately.”
Engagement with Travis Kelce
On August 26th, Swift and her fiance Travis Kelce announced their engagement. “Marriage your English teacher and your sports teacher,” they wrote in a common Instagram post. In his podcast “New Heights” Kelce said that her love story was “exactly what I have written about since my youth in songs – what I always wanted that it happened to me once”.