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Taylor Swift has given more details about her relationship with husband to be Travis Kelce and the other famous people in her life she often turns to

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Taylor Swift has reflected on her ‘good year’ as she gushed about her relationship with fiancé Travis Kelce and getting all the rights to her music back.

The Fate of Ophelia songstress – who turns 36 on Saturday, December 13 – gave a new interview as she appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the US. But despite her superstar career, wealth and love life that includes a host of famous boyfriends, Taylor admitted that getting engaged to American football player Travis, 36, and buying all her masters to her music catalogue back “might never have happened”.

She said: “That’s a good year. Like, those two things you just mentioned – getting engaged to the love of my life and getting all my music back – those are two things that just never could have happened.

“They could have just never happened. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, it’s just a matter of time.’ Both those things could have just never arrived in my life. And I’m so grateful for both of those things happening.”

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As well as husband to be Travis – who Taylor revealed she “can talk to about anything” – she revealed her friendship with a legendary female singer, who it seems acts as a bit of a mentor to her these days.

The woman in question is none other than Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nick, who wrote and sang massive hits like Dreams, Rhiannon and Edge of Seventeen.

Taylor shared: “I’ve been very lucky. I have Stevie Nicks in my life in a way that affects me positively constantly.

“Being able to talk to her and have a phone call with her and hear what she’s been through. You know, she paved the way for me and any other artist to to get to do this on this level, so I feel very lucky that she’s kind of like lended her very magical, wonderful wise approach to life to me.”

Straight off the back of releasing her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor has been busy promoting her The End of an Era docu-series and The Eras Tour Final Show, which will be available to stream on Disney+ on Friday.

Speaking about the Eras tour – which she said paid for her to get her music back – she said that not even illness would stop her going on stage so as not to let her fans down.

She said: “‘I make a decision at the beginning of the tour that there is no option to not to go on stage. That’s not an option. Even if you have the stomach flu, which I had multiple times during the tour, my goal was to never let them know you have the stomach flu.

“I think it’s also about knowing that there is something bigger than you. And for me, on that tour, the bigger thing was these people have saved up their money, they have rearranged their schedules, they have arranged transportation, they’ve had parties, they have created costumes, they’ve made friendship bracelets. I’m doing the show!”

Asked how she winds down from her shows, Taylor revealed she gets in the bath for “mermaid time”, then orders “as much room service as possible”. But after that it’s back to work as she revealed she would go to sign “like two thousands CDs”.

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Anita Dobson, 76, is best known for her role as the iconic Angie Watts in EastEnders has been married to legendary Queen guitarist Brian May, 78, for 25 years

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Anita Dobson has shared a health update about her husband Brian May, following his stroke last year. The actress revealed that she and her husband would be spending Christmas Day away from family and friends this year.

The 76-year-old has been married to the guitarist, 78, for 25 years. She shared that his health has greatly improved since he was taken ill in 2024 but admitted that this Christmas would be lonely one, as the couple have “lost lots of friends”.

In 2024, Brian had a stroke and lost the use of his left arm. He was rushed to a hospital in Surrey. But a year later, he is doing much better, and the star was able to perform again.

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Talking to The Sun, Anita said her husband was working on music, but insisted that he was also taking care of his health. She said: “His health is good. He bikes every day. He swims maybe once, twice a week. Takes his pills. And is a good boy. So that’s the best we can hope for.”

The actress added that she and Brian would be spending Christmas Day alone, not because of his health but because it has been a sad year for the pair.

She shared that they want it to be a “quiet” Christmas, because while it has also been an “amazing and wonderful year” they have also had “lots of sad things happen”.

Anita revealed: “We’ve lost lots of friends. People that Bri’s worked with. People that I’ve worked with. That is really tough.” She said there was “no easy way” to deal with the death of friends and that she and her husband have tried to be there for friends who got sick.

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For Christmas this year, they are planning to sleep and have their meat-free Christmas dinner mid-afternoon. She said the pair often sleep on Christmas, as Brian “would sleep all day” if she let him, as he prefers to work at night. She added that her “ideal time to eat” would be 4pm.

She also said the couple are “big on drinking” and that she will have a few glasses of champagne and might share a bottle of wine with Brian, alongside cheese and biscuits. Brian has not eaten meat since taking part in a Veganuary challenge in 2020.

Anita and Brian first met in 1986 at a film premiere and have been together since 1988. Brian was still married to his first wife Christine Mullen when he met Anita, unbeknownst to her. Anita later told the Daily Mail that she felt “insulted” when she found out.

“I was heart-wrenched when he told me… I was insulted. I thought: ‘How dare you go out with me if you’re married?’” she said. “So we just kept a certain distance until we could find a place in life where we could be together.”