--- description: She's fearless title: Taylor Swift Can't Stop Surprising People image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Taylor Swift Can't Stop Surprising People by [Jessica Roy](/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 15, 2014 12:00 PM CUT by [Jessica Roy](/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 15, 2014 12:00 PM CUT 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/ "undefined"). **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 "undefined") **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 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/62570/taylor-swift-surprising-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/62570/taylor-swift-surprising-people/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Can't Stop Surprising People","datePublished":"2014-04-15T12:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:48.169Z","description":"She's fearless","url":"https://time.com/62570/taylor-swift-surprising-people/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Taylor Swift","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/62570/taylor-swift-surprising-people/","name":"Taylor Swift Can't Stop Surprising People"}}]}] ```