Did Taylor Swift Fake Those Tom Hiddleston Paparazzi Photos Because of Kim Kardashian?

Conspiracy theory alert!

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By now you've probably seen those Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston beach photos a hundred times, and even started questioning whether they were staged. Even a paparazzo has suggested that photos were arranged considering Swift's reputation for picture-perfect paparazzi photos.

But why would she do that?

The Cut brings up an interesting point—or conspiracy theory, rather—that has to do with Kim Kardashian.

Yesterday, Kardashian's GQ cover story broke, and it includes some damning words about Taylor Swift regarding her "Famous" feud with Kanye West. (For reference, "Famous" is a song on West's The Life of Pablo album that includes the lyrics, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous." Swift quickly disapproved of the song's "misogynistic message," though West insisted that she had approved the lyrics to him in a phone call.)

Kardashian told GQ that Swift really did know about the lyrics all along, that she was just playing "victim" when she called out West. She said:

"She totally approved that," Kim says, shaking her head in annoyance. "She totally knew that that was coming out. She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't. I swear, my husband gets so much shit for things [when] he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved." Kim is on a roll now, speaking faster and more animatedly than at any other point during our time together. "What rapper would call a girl that he was rapping a line about to get approval?"

Swift was quick for a comeback, as her rep sent the following response to GQ:

"Taylor does not hold anything against Kim Kardashian as she recognizes the pressure Kim must be under and that she is only repeating what she has been told by Kanye West. However, that does not change the fact that much of what Kim is saying is incorrect. Kanye West and Taylor only spoke once on the phone while she was on vacation with her family in January of 2016 and they have never spoken since. Taylor has never denied that conversation took place. It was on that phone call that Kanye West also asked her to release the song on her Twitter account, which she declined to do. Kanye West never told Taylor he was going to use the term 'that bitch' in referencing her. A song cannot be approved if it was never heard. Kanye West never played the song for Taylor Swift. Taylor heard it for the first time when everyone else did and was humiliated. Kim Kardashian's claim that Taylor and her team were aware of being recorded is not true, and Taylor cannot understand why Kanye West, and now Kim Kardashian, will not just leave her alone."

But for stars as big as Swift, Kardashian and West, it's going take a lot more than a public statement to clear the air. So maybe Taylor Swift, aware of this fact, had somehow found out Kim's interview and planned the biggest diversion of all time—with the help of her publicist Tree Paine, of course.

It is entirely possible, if not plausible, that Swift arranged for the paparazzi to intercept her and Hiddleston in Rhode Island to divert the attention from Kim's story.

It's the perfect distraction, and it kind of worked.


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