Taylor Swift’s fanbase has change into identified for his or her skilled detective abilities, deciphering Easter eggs and “clues” from the singer. However with each speculation that proves to be proper, there are a number of that are not.

Working example along with her current rumored cameo look on the beloved Hulu sequence, The Handmaid’s Story. Swifties in every single place had been questioning whether or not a current background determine featured within the second-to-last episode of the dystopian sequence was really Swift incognito, however the present’s star, Elisabeth Moss, is clearing up these rumors.

“God, I really like them,” Moss stated of the Swifties when requested by a TVLine reporter concerning the rumors. “That’s superb! After all it’s not [Swift]. After all, it’s not her. Oh my God, that’s hilarious. I really like that concept, although.”

Why did Taylor Swift followers assume that the individual in The Handmaid’s Story season six, episode 9 was her? Effectively, the penultimate episode, which debuted on Tuesday, started with Swift’s unreleased “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model).” The music comes off of Swift’s Repute album, and as many Swifities know, it is one of many final albums that has but to be launched as a re-record. The music was thrilling sufficient, however followers took their detective abilities one step additional by piecing collectively the filming location of Handmaid’s Story and whether or not there was a probability that Swift was really on set.

Swift made a cease in Toronto, Canada, in November 2024 for the Eras Tour, which additionally coincided with the filming of The Handmaid’s Story — additionally in Toronto. On prime of that, Moss, who performs June within the sequence, and her Handmaid’s Story co-stars attended the Eras Tour present.

Moss additionally shared a assertion following the episode’s premiere that she has “been wanting to make use of a Taylor music for a few years on the present and we lastly discovered the proper spot for a observe from her.” She went on to say that Swift “has been such an inspiration to me personally,” calling herself a Swiftie. Whereas that added gasoline to the case that the mysterious determine was Taylor herself, sadly, it was not.

“I’m afraid that’s not Taylor,” Moss continued. “She’s fairly busy. I really feel like if she was going to come back do our present, we’d’ve made certain we noticed her face.”

She additionally added that Taylor Swift has been “prime of thoughts” for Moss all through the sequence, significantly Repute.

“Repute got here out at a actually, I believe it was Season 4, and we had been obsessive about that album on set, as a solid. It’s been a lengthy mutual love affair between her and a lot of our solid.”