Homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe Taylor Swift is well-known for her surprise face, but she’s also made a point of showing up places out of nowhere–whether it’s to surprise fans, friends or SNL hosts. Here, a brief history of the sparkly songstress popping up when you least expect her.
That time she showed up to a superfan’s bridal shower:
Taylor traveled to Columbus, Ohio to surprise engaged fan Gena Gabrielle.
That time she crashed an SNL Monologue:
“You were getting really upset,” Taylor explains when Seth Rogen asks her why she randomly showed up to his monologue, “and every time a man shows emotion, I appear.”
Those times she surprised fans on Oprah:
And on Ellen:
And on The Rachael Ray Show:
That time she gave Olympic downhill skier Torin Yater-Wallace a surprise video message:
That time she showed up to hang with cancer patients at Sloane-Kettering:
Taylor, will you show up at our birthday party next?
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