Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn was swept up in romance rumors after one eagle-eyed fan noticed his recent social media activity.
A user on X noticed that the 34-year-old had liked a post from an actress who bears a striking resemblance to his ex.
‘Can I start a rumor,’ the individual wrote playfully, before suggesting a connection between Alwyn and his former costar Hunter Schafer, 26.
Their post included a photo of Alwyn – who was allegedly the subject of a brutal dig on Swift’s new album – and the transgender actress grinning as they stepped onto the red carpet at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Alwyn and Schafer for comment.
And fans also noted that Alwyn had liked a behind-the-scenes photos of the actress getting ready for a Met Gala afterparty in May.
Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, 34, was swept up in romance rumors after one eagle-eyed fan recently took notice of his social media activity; pictured in Cannes last year
One poster on X noticed that Alwyn had liked a post from an actress who bears a striking resemblance to his ex; the former couple are seen in Beverly Hills in 2020
A user suggested a connection between Alwyn, 34, and his former costar Hunter Schafer, 26; pictured together in Cannes, France, in May last year
The post also received reactions from several other stars and more than a million fans.
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It featured photos of the Euphoria actress in a busty beige satin corset that put her prominent bust on full display.
Schafer’s long blonde locks and sculpted physique bore a striking resemblance to Alwyn’s ex-girlfriend Swift, whom he dated from 2016 to 2023.
‘She reminds him of Taylor,’ suggested a fan.
‘I mean Hunter is his exact type,’ claimed one user in the comments on the original romance theory post.
Another person suggested they could be a new ‘it couple.’
‘I LOVEEEE this rumour,’ enthused one commenter.
The post featured a photo of Alwyn and Schafer grinning at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, as well as Schafer’s Instagram post from May that showed Alwyn had given it a ‘like’
Schafer’s long blond locks and sculpted physique bore a striking resemblance to Alwyn’s ex-girlfriend Swift, whom he dated from 2016 to 2023
‘i LOVEEEE this rumour,’ enthused another commenter. But another user claimed that ‘Hunter deserves someone w/o commitment issues’
But other fans were seemingly all in on the apparently manufactured rumor. ‘You know what? hell yeah,’ wrote a fan. Another declared that they ‘would not be normal abt this’
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But another reply claimed that ‘Hunter deserves someone w/o commitment issues.’
But other fans were seemingly all in on the apparently manufactured rumor. ‘You know what? hell yeah,’ wrote a fan.
Another declared that they ‘would not be normal abt this’.
Alwyn and Schafer both featured in Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy Kinds Of Kindness, which was released in June 2024.
The movie, comprised of three short films starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, featured Schafer in the final segment, in which she played a woman who is inspected as a possible messiah-like spiritual figure for a disturbing sex cult.
Alwyn was featured in all three segments of the film in small supporting parts, though he didn’t share any scenes with Schafer.
Despite both only having small roles in the film, they lived it up at the Cannes Film Festival last year, along with the film’s leads.
Alwyn had previously worked with Lanthimos and Stone in the the Oscar-winning period comedy The Favourite.
Alwyn and Schafer were both featured in Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy Kinds Of Kindness (pictured), which was released in June 2024
Alwyn was featured in all three segments of the film in small supporting parts, though he didn’t share any scenes with Hunter in the single segment she was featured in
Despite both only having small roles in the film, they lived it up at the Cannes Film Festival last year, along with the film’s leads
The ensemble film also featured Lanthimos regulars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley; pictured in Cannes, France, in May last year
Schafer’s most high-profile coupling was with her Euphoria costar Dominic Fike, whom she was in a relationship with from 2022 to 2023
She also confirmed in 2023 that she had dated the Spanish singer Rosalía for around five months in 2019, which had not been confirmed at the time; Schafer and Rosalía (center-right) pictured with Brent Faiyaz (L) and Dua Lipa (R) in 2019 in London
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It’s not clear if Schafer is dating anyone at the moment, and she has been fairly quiet about her past relationships.
Her most high-profile coupling was with her Euphoria costar Dominic Fike, whom she was in a relationship with from 2022 to 2023.
She also confirmed in 2023 that she had dated the Spanish singer Rosalía for around five months in 2019, which had not been confirmed at the time.
The actress hit out at Donald Trump earlier this year after learning that her new passport lists her gender as ‘male’ rather than ‘female’ due to the president’s controversial executive order.
She said in a video in February: ‘I want to acknowledge my privilege, not only as a celebrity transwoman who is white and thin and can adhere to contemporary beauty standards and I can participate in all of the that, and I pass, and it still happened,’ she said.
‘I never had my birth certificate changed, so this has led me to believe that I think the agencies who are interested in passports are now required to cross reference birth certificates.
‘I don’t know exactly what, or what changed in far of the processing goes.
‘This is the first time this has happened to me since I changed my gender marker. We’re coming up on a decade now or something.’
It comes after Swift released her new album The Life Of a Showgirl on Friday.
Fans have lately speculated that the singer may have taken a dig at her ex Alwyn in lead single, The Fate of Ophelia.
The song, which references the tragic figure from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, was also believed to have a connection to Alwyn, as he stars as Ophelia’s brother Laertes in an upcoming film adaptation of Hamlet.
Fans also interpreted the song as unfavorably comparing Alwyn to Swift’s fiancé Travis Kelce.