Was Joe Alwyn engaged to Taylor Swift? Relationship history explored amid Fan posts

Taylor Swift’s engagement with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, has left Swifties wondering if she was ever engaged to Joe Alwyn.

According to the country artist’s latest announcement on Instagram, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end proposed to her at the backdrop of a dreamy landscape. The couple announced the news in a joint Instagram post, where she wrote:

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

This has drawn attention to her relationship with former boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. Fans have shared posts questioning Alwyn as why he never gave her a ring to seal their bond as reports of their engagement surfaced in 2022.

A user on X tweeted: “Was that so hard @ joe Alwyn.”

Another said: “REALLY?!?! Taylor Swift's engaged and y'all talking about Joe Alwyn right now? Smfh!”

According to a report in Distractify, multiple outlets such as Page Six and New York Post reported in 2022 that Swift and Alwyn were engaged, but the couple never confirmed their engagement publicly.

Continue to read more about their relationship.

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Exploring the relationship between Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were in a relationship for six years. Although the couple never publicly spoke as how they met but fans believe that Swift’s song, Dress from her album, Reputation, signifies that they met at the 2016 Met Gala. The lyrics of the track goes:

“Flashback when you met me / Your buzzcut and my hair bleached.”

At the event, where the theme was “Manus X Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” Swift arrived with a bleach-blonde look and Alwyn notably shaved his head, according to a Page Six report.

They were spotted attending the same private Kings of Leon concert in October, where Swift was seen with her former boyfriend, Tom Hiddleston, before. However, the duo arrived separately.

The Sun was the first outlet to report of their relationship in May 2017. A source said at that time:

“Taylor and Joe are the real deal, this is a very serious relationship. But after what happened with Tom Hiddleston, they were determined to keep it quiet.”

The pair were very private about their romance. Swift shared in her 2020 autobiographical documentary, Miss Americana about her relationship with Joe Alwyn. She said:

“I was falling in love with someone who had a wonderfully normal, balanced life. We decided together we wanted our relationship to be private. I was happy. But I wasn’t happy in the way I was trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else’s input. We were just happy.”

According to Elle magazine, in June 2017, the paparazzi caught the couple on a coffee date sitting on a balcony in Nashville. Reports emerged that the couple looked completely smitten by each other.

Ever since then, Swift and Alwyn were photographed hanging out together at various events. It included Ed Sheeran’s iHeartRadio Jingle Bell Ball in New York City in December 2017. Swift was also seen attending Alwyn’s movie premiere a few times in the following years.

In June 2022, multiple outlets reported their engagement, but the couple never confirmed it in public. In April 2023, Page Six confirmed that they had called it quits. A source told the outlet that their “relationship just ran its course.”