{"id":183034,"date":"2025-07-26T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/taylor-swift-to-take-the-high-road-over-denise-welch-jibes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:45:08","slug":"taylor-swift-to-take-the-high-road-over-denise-welch-jibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/taylor-swift-to-take-the-high-road-over-denise-welch-jibes\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift to &#8216;take the high road&#8217; over Denise Welch jibes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-26\" datetime=\"1753523108\" pubdate=\"\">26 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift plans to \u201ctake the high road\u201d after being slammed by ex-boyfriend Matt Healy\u2019s mother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/denise-welch\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,denise-welch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denise Welch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Taylor Swift to &#8216;take the high road&#8217; over Denise Welch jibes<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old superstar and the 36-year-old 1975 frontman briefly dated following her split from actor Joe Alwyn, in April 2023 and Taylor went on to reference their relationship in her album The Tortured Poets Department.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Matt\u2019s mother Denise insisted it was unfair that Matt couldn\u2019t talk about the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cObviously, on pain of death can I talk about that episode, but being her mother-in-law is a role that I am glad I lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that I have anything against [Taylor] at all! It was just \u2013 it was tricky.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cListen, you&#8217;re not allowed to say anything, and then she [Taylor] writes a whole album about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Taylor \u2013 who has been happily dating NFL star Travis Kelce for the past few years &#8211; plans to ignore Denise\u2019s jibes. <\/p>\n<p>\nA source told DailyMail.com: \u201cIt&#8217;s a bit obnoxious in Taylor&#8217;s eyes, but she has to take the high road.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf there was anything that would be in a future song of Taylor&#8217;s \u2013 if she were ever to respond \u2013 she would respond that way. But as of right now, she might just let it slide. She is not going to let Denise ruin her day.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cTaylor respected Denise and will continue to do so, as this will go away very quickly. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut if Denise continues to talk about it and bash Taylor, then Taylor would say something. The ball is still in Denise&#8217;s court to see if she wants to continue the narrative she brought upon herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/taylor-swift-take-high-road-denise-welch-jibes-1422620.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 July 2025 Taylor Swift plans to \u201ctake the high road\u201d after being slammed by ex-boyfriend Matt Healy\u2019s mother Denise Welch. Taylor Swift to &#8216;take the high road&#8217; over Denise Welch jibes The 35-year-old superstar and the 36-year-old 1975 frontman briefly dated following her split from actor Joe Alwyn, in April 2023 and Taylor went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7673,2068,53,999],"class_list":{"0":"post-183034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-denise-welch","9":"tag-matt-healy","10":"tag-taylor-swift","11":"tag-travis-kelce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}