Alyson Hannigan Reveals Taylor Swift Watched Her DWTS Performance Live
Alyson Hannigan's primary aspiration during her stint on Dancing With the Stars season 32 was to reach the much-anticipated Taylor Swift-themed evening.
Interestingly, Hannigan, who is 51, subsequently discovered that the “Cruel Summer” vocalist had actually watched the program during the broadcast of her dedicated episode.
“That particular night caused me the most anxiety because I thought, ‘Hold on, I only aimed to reach this point; I didn't realize I'd genuinely have to perform. And what if she's observing?’” she recounted to Joey Graziadei during the official Dancing With the Stars podcast, released on Thursday, September 25.
“I indeed learned that she viewed it alongside her dancers,” Hannigan further shared.
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The star of American Pie partnered with professional dancer Sasha Farber during her season, which premiered in 2023. The duo progressed to the championship round, securing fifth place, while Xochitl Gomez claimed victory on the show with her partner Val Chmerkovskiy.
Hannigan and Farber, aged 41, performed a cha-cha-cha to Swift’s 2008 track “You Belong With Me” on Swiftie Night, receiving three scores of 7 and a single 8 from the judging panel.
During the subsequent dance relay, they surpassed Harry Jowsey and Rylee Arnold by dancing to “Shake it Off.”
Swift, 35, made an appearance herself during the episode via a video recording.
“Hello everyone, it's Taylor. I simply wish to express my gratitude for dedicating this me-themed evening on Dancing With the Stars," she stated in the recording. “I eagerly anticipate what your incredible choreographers and my friend Mandy Moore have prepared. I genuinely wish I could attend.”
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It is hardly astonishing that Hannigan perfectly executed her Swift-themed routines on that particular evening. The recognized Swiftie fan was in attendance at the Eras Tour concurrently with her season's broadcast, catching one of the concerts in Los Angeles.
“Even Taylor Swift’s silhouette is extraordinary,” she wrote on an Instagram post, featuring Swift’s outline during the concert.
One year subsequent, Hannigan and her spouse, Alexis Denisof, honored Swift on Halloween by donning a couples' costume drawn from her track “So High School.”
Within images posted on Instagram, Hannigan appeared as a football, while Denisof, 59, portrayed Aristotle, alluding to the lyric “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle.”
“Fellow Swifties understand me,” she commented beneath the photographs.
Observers additionally pointed out that “So High School” was a fitting song for the couple's costume theme, given its lyric, “I’m watching American Pie with you on a Saturday night / Your friends are around, so be quiet.”
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Hannigan lightheartedly shared with Us Weekly exclusively that the tune, widely thought to reference Swift and her fiancé, Travis Kelce, created a sensation of involvement in their romance for her.
“I genuinely felt like I was accompanying Taylor and Travis [Kelce] on their outings,” she revealed in an August 2024 discussion. “Only the three of us — truly, in my imagination, that's how it unfolded.”
Hannigan further mentioned that “So High School” potentially “sparked” her children’s curiosity about viewing the 1999 comedic film. (She and Denisof are parents to daughters Satyana, aged 16, and Kiev, aged 13.)
“They haven’t indicated a desire to watch it, yet they recognize its significance. Taylor might have stimulated their interest, though they haven't voiced it,” she stated. “That specific one is what I anticipate with the greatest apprehension. … My hope is to simply defer it until their college years.”
