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# Taylor Swift Can't Stop Surprising People

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by 

[Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/)


## Jessica Roy


Apr 15, 2014 12:00 PM UTC

by 

[Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/)


## Jessica Roy


Apr 15, 2014 12:00 PM UTC

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](http://time.com/62505/taylor-swift-attends-fans-bridal-shower/).

**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**](http://wonderwall.msn.com/music/gossip-taylor-swift-surprises-hospitalized-kids-while-ed-sheeran-serenades-dying-fan-28699.gallery#!wallState=0%5F%5F%2Fmusic%2Fthe-shortlist-for-march-25-28602.gallery%3FphotoId%3D135357) **at Sloane-Kettering:**

> [](https://twitter.com/countryrewards/status/450641711854022656)

Taylor, will you show up at our birthday party next?

**MORE:** [**Should Taylor Swift be in the 2014 Time 100? Vote now.**](http://time.com/pollmusic)

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