Taylor Swift is also my Person of the Year

Publish Date: Thursday, 7 December 2023, 9:42AM

**Taylor Swift has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year!!!**

The 33-year-old superstar was competing against multiple high-profile names for the title - including Barbie, King Charles and Sam Altman, among others, but ultimately the magazine saw the blank space and filled in her name.

Coming one year after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was given the title, the singer confessed the honour has left her feeling “the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt”.

Time Magazine: We’d like to name you Person of the Yea-

Me: Can I bring my cat. https://t.co/SOhkYKSTwG
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 6, 2023

“This is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I’ve ever been... It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33,” she said in her first print interview in four years.

Swift’s latest title comes after a huge 12 months for the star in which she embarked on her massive 66-date global Eras Tour, which has earned her billionaire status, released the Eras Tour concert movie, re-released her 2014 album, 1989, and months after debuting her sensational new romance with NFL star Travis Kelce, 34

First published by NZ Herald, Republished here with permission.