(CNN) — Taylor Swift and actor Joe Alvin have split after six years together.
A source close to Taylor confirmed the news to CNN: “Taylor and Zoe broke up a few weeks ago. They plan to separate and remain friends.”
CNN has reached out to representatives for Swift and Alvin for comment. Entertainment tonight He was the first to report the news.
Alvin and Swift, currently on her “Eras Tour,” were first romantically linked in 2016.
The Grammy winner and Alvin were able to maintain their relationship Practically in secretBut in true Taylor Swift fashion, the singer threw some Easter eggs at Alvin through her music.
In January, Swift revealed to her instagram “Lavender Haze,” a song from his 2022 album “Midnights,” says Alvin when you’re in a haze of lavender love, “you’ll do anything to stay there, don’t let people throw you off.” That cloud”.
“Just like in my six-year relationship, we had to avoid the weird gossipy, tabloid stuff and brush it off. This song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.”
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles. (Credit: Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images)
Alvin also received a writing credit for the song “Sweet Nothing” on “Midnights”.
This isn’t the first time the pair have collaborated on songs from Swift’s albums. The British actor is credited on several songs on Swift’s 2020 Epidemic albums “Folklore” and “Evermore,” under the pseudonym “William Bowery.”
Swift confirmed the real identity in the same year’s Disney+ documentary “Folklore: Long Pond Studio Sessions,” where she said Alvin “plays the piano beautifully, plays all the time, creates and creates things.”
“Folklore” won the 2021 Grammy Award for Album of the Year Alvin’s first Grammy win.
There was speculation that the then-couple were engaged when Swifties took some wedding-leaning lyrics to “Lover,” the title track of her 2019 album.
“If I had a pound for every time I thought I was engaged, I’d have a lot of pound coins.” Alvin said WSJ Magazine In 2022, “I mean, the truth is, if the answer is yes, I won’t say, and if the answer is no, I won’t say.”
