Taylor Swift may be best friends with Blake Lively and Selena Gomez, but they never spend time together as a trio, and insiders are now revealing the surprising reason why the three women are rarely seen hanging out as a group.
Suspicions arose when soccer fan Selena, 31, was not on Taylor’s A-list team at this year’s Super Bowl final, where Lana Del Rey, Ashley Avignone, Kaleigh Sperry and Blake cheered on Travis Kelce as the Kansas City Chiefs achieved victory. .
Now, inside sources have claimed there is bad blood between Blake, 36, and Selena, who are reportedly not friends, do not ‘mix’ and choose to spend time with the pop superstar separately.
“This is why neither of them are ever with Taylor at the same time and they constantly avoid confrontations with each other,” a source told DailyMail.com exclusively.
Taylor Swift may be best friends with Blake Lively and Selena Gomez, but they never spend time together as a trio: Taylor and Blake photographed at the 2024 Super Bowl final, without Selena
Selena, 31, pictured with Taylor, 34, at the 2023 Golden Globes, and Blake, 36, “are not friends,” sources told DailyMail.com.
On December 12 last year, Selena, who has been Taylor’s best friend since 2008, went to dinner in New York (pictured) to celebrate Taylor’s birthday.
The next day, which marked Taylor’s 34th birthday, Selena was not present at her big party, when the singer was photographed celebrating with Blake (pictured).
Instead, Selena posted a birthday tribute on Instagram, writing, “I love you.” A source told DailyMail.com: ‘Selena plays a different role in Taylor’s life than Blake’
Selena was absent from Taylor’s all-girls team at the Super Bowl in February, which included Blake, and instead reacted to a photo of the group on Instagram with a crying emoji and a black heart.
Selena and Taylor were friends when Blake came onto the scene in 2015, having first struck up a friendship in 2008, but it doesn’t appear the two have been photographed together.
‘Swiftie’ detectives have been desperately trying to figure out why Selena, an avid football fan, was not present at the Super Bowl. Instead, she simply commented a sad face emoji and a black heart on a photo of the singer with her friends at the finale.
She has also never accompanied Taylor to cheer on Travis, unlike Blake, who appeared alongside her in three games last season.
DailyMail.com has tallied dozens of occasions, including all of Taylor’s birthday parties, her Fourth of July parties, and her New Year’s Eve celebrations, and found that Selena and Blake never attended together.
On the eve of her 34th birthday on December 12, Taylor skipped TIME’s Person of the Year Gala in New York to dine at Zero Bond with Selena and Kaleigh and her husband, actor Miles Teller, 37.
Blake wasn’t there, but she was on hand to celebrate at Taylor’s party the next night, where she partied with the singer’s famous friends, including Kaleigh and Miles, as well as Zoe Kravitz, 28, and Gigi Hadid, 25. .
Selena, however, was noticeably absent.
Instead, the former Disney star shared a birthday message on Instagram along with a photo of Taylor kissing her on the cheek.
In 2023, Selena shared photos from her Fourth of July celebration with Taylor (pictured). Notably absent was Blake, who had watched the fireworks with Taylor in previous years.
Taylor, photographed with Blake and other members of the girl squad including Gigi Hadid, 35, and Cara Delavigne, didn’t include Selena in this recent Fourth of July photo.
‘Happy birthday to the goddess that is @taylorswift. I love you,’ she wrote.
There was no mention of why she couldn’t attend her best friend’s birthday party.
“For a good meeting and a good party, you know who to invite and who not to invite,” a second source told DailyMail.com. ‘Taylor knows that she shouldn’t mix Blake and Selena in the same room and that they should be two separate nights.
‘Blake enjoys the perks of being a celebrity. She loves to have fun.
‘If something fun is happening, she wants to be a part of it and it’s contagious. This is something everyone, including Taylor, loves about Blake. She knows that no matter what happens, she will have a good time and laugh a lot when she goes out with Blake.
They continued: ‘When Taylor wants to be on the loose, Blake will be in the mix. Selena simply plays a different role in Taylor’s life. She’s as simple as that.’
On January 7, Selena and Taylor attended the Golden Globes along with Kaleigh and partied late into the night, but Blake was not present.
Three days later, Taylor went out to dinner in New York with Kaleigh, Zoe, and Blake. Selena, who was still in New York, was not present.
Selena and Blake never appear to have been photographed together at events, including the Met Gala and numerous ceremonies from the Golden Globes to the Emmy and SAG Awards.
They both attended Saturday Night Live on November 14, 2021 when Taylor was the guest host and premiered the new version of her song, All Too Well (Taylor’s version), but there are no photos of them together.
Blake, photographed with Taylor and Gigi Hadid on the singer’s birthday, supposedly avoids ‘encounters’ with Selena
The source said it was “strange” that Taylor, pictured with Blake in January, never hangs out with her two close friends.
Before the show, Taylor shared a TikTok video from her dressing room with Selena, who presumably watched her perform from backstage.
Blake also attended the taping with her husband Ryan Reynolds, and the couple was in the audience for Taylor’s performance.
Blake directed the video for All Too Well, which was filmed at the Westchester County home he shares with Ryan and their children. He also directed Taylor’s video, Bet You Think About Me.
After the SNL taping, Blake and Ryan were photographed entering the after-party. Selena, however, did not attend.
Over the last decade that Taylor and Blake have been dating, Selena has apparently only made one reference to the Gossip Girl star.
In a 2016 interview with elle magazineThey asked him about the actress for a beauty piece.
“I wish she were my friend, but she’s not my friend,” she said. ‘Blake Lively. I’ve never met her, but I love her hair. I think she has beautiful, effortless hair. I think she’s super beachy.”
They both supported Taylor when she performed All Too Well (Taylor’s version) on SNL on November 14, 2021, but did not appear together.
Taylor shared a TikTok video of her and Selena backstage (pictured). The actress did not appear in the audience to see the show, nor attend the after-party.
Blake and her husband Ryan Reynolds were photographed in the audience and made an appearance at the after-party (pictured outside).
The insider thinks it’s “still strange” that “no one has noticed that Selena and Blake have never been in the same room at the same time.”
“It seems like Blake is closer to the A-list girls than Selena,” they said. ‘Selena does her thing because she is a big star in her own right.
‘No one ever questions Taylor’s friendships. She has so many beautiful and famous friends around her at all times that people focus on. She always seems to have fun whenever she goes out with her girls.
‘She has also shared many photos on her social media with Selena and has shared photos with Blake. This is how it is and how it always has been.
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Blake, Selena and Taylor for comment.