Taylor Swift Extends London Eras Tour Run with 2 New Shows Featuring Paramore as Opening Act

Taylor Swift Extends London Eras Tour Run with 2 New Shows Featuring Paramore as Opening Act

The “Cruel Summer” superstar will now perform eight total shows at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium

London, Taylor Swift fancies you.

On Tuesday, the “Cruel Summer” superstar, 33, announced two additional 2024 Eras Tour shows at London’s Wembley Stadium for Aug. 19 and 20 with opening act Paramore, extending their run at the 90,000-capacity venue to eight in total.

The new U.K. dates were confirmed on social media by Paramore as well as Swift’s official @taylornation13 account, and tickets went on sale Tuesday at 2 p.m. local time.

According to the announcements, “a limited number of fans” who previously registered to buy tickets for the initial Eras Tour stops at Wembley Stadium (on June 21, 22 and 23 as well as August 15, 16 and 17) will automatically be granted early access to purchase tickets for the new shows.

Swift hasn’t performed at Wembley Stadium since The Reputation Stadium Tour in June 2018, during which she only held two shows at the venue. This time around, many more fans will have the chance to attend the eight London concerts.

The Grammy winner’s ongoing Eras Tour continues to receive rave reviews, especially from Swift’s celebrity fans. Earlier this week, Sarah Paulson opened up to PEOPLE about attending one of the concerts at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium in August with actress Lupita Nyong’o and friends.

“The last time I was starstruck — this is how powerful she is — was [when] I went to a Taylor Swift concert and I didn’t even meet her,” Paulson said. “For me, it was like being in the room with God herself.”

Although the Ratched star admitted she and Nyong’o, 40, didn’t go into the show as “full-blown Swifties,” after being within close proximity to the “Karma” singer, they became entranced by “the power of Taylor Swift.”

“We got to be on the floor, and someone from her team came out and handed Lupita and me a bag of merchandise. They said to me, ‘This is from Taylor.’ I was like, ‘I think I’m going to faint,’” added Paulson.

During Swift’s Buenos Aires show on Saturday night, she changed the lyrics of “Karma” to reflect her budding romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce as she sang, “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me,” causing raucous applause from the crowd and an adorable reaction from the NFL star, 34, himself.

On Wednesday’s episode of his New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce (Presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment) podcast, his brother and fellow football player Jason asked him on the podcast, “How does it feel to officially be ‘the guy on the Chiefs?’” which prompted a laugh from Travis, who said, “You mean ‘Karma?’”

Travis revealed that he had prior warning that Swift might do something special to recognize his presence in the audience, after he flew to Argentina for the weekend on his bye week.

“Yeah no I had no clue that…” he began, before shifting gears and admitting, “Well, I might have had a little bit of a clue, but definitely when I heard it come out of her mouth, [it] still shocked me.”

Jason, 35, said “you could tell in the video” that Travis was shocked, referring to the widely circulated fan footage that captured his reaction to Swift’s shout out.

“I was like, ‘Oh, she really just said that,’” Travis said.

The Eras Tour continues with shows in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo throughout the end of November, and then Swift will take a few months off the road before performing in Oceania, Australia, Europe and North America next year.

 

 

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