Ina Garten lived out a true Swiftie fantasy: partying backstage with Taylor Swift.
The Barefoot Contessa the star described in detail a special moment of the concert during an interview with The Wall Street Journal as the cover star of the October issue.
“I’m crazy about Taylor Swift,” Ina said while promoting her new memoir, Be ready when luck strikes. “After the show, she invited us to a party she organized for the whole team. And my friend Kate said, ‘Let’s go play beer pong!'”
The video interview, part of the WSJ’s “The One” series, doesn’t specify which tour it was during, but Garten gives some clues.
“When we went there, Abby Wambach — who had just won the World Cup in soccer — came up to me and said, I’ll be your advisor,” she recalled.
Wambach and the U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup in 2015 — the same year Swift hit the road for her World Tour in 1989. The winning team joined Swift in New Jersey on stage for “Style” to celebrate their victory.
Ina Garten talks about a stupid memory of Taylor Swift in her interview with ‘WSJ Magazine’.
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Garten says Wambach gave her some words of wisdom that night. “She said, ‘Put the fucking ball in the fucking cup!'” Garten laughed, “and I said, ‘That’s your advice?'”
When asked if she played beer pong before or after and if she played well, Garten gave the same answer to all three questions: “No!”
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In April, Garten told PEOPLE that she, like other Swifties, had to work really hard to get tickets to the pop star’s Eras Tour.
“I’m going to be in Paris in May and I thought, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t she going to be in Paris in May?'” Garten said. “At 3:00 in the morning I was online, asking if I could get two good tickets, and I did.”
Garten ended up not wearing her sparkly outfit as planned because she got sick right before the concert, she later told PEOPLE.
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Ina Garten is the ‘WSJ. Cover star of the magazine’s October issue.
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Garten and Swift first met more than ten years ago.
“I actually met Taylor when Food Network Magazine he asked rock stars 10 years ago who their favorite Food Network people were and Taylor picked me,” Garten recalled. “So she came for a one-day photo shoot, and then we saw each other for a while after that. She invited me to lunch and came back to lunch one day in East Hampton. I really admire her.”
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The admiration is mutual as Swift has detailed her love for Garten over the years.
“My strongest memories of Ina come from when I first discovered her TV show,” Swift told in October 2022 of Food Network Magazinecelebration Barefoot Contessa’s 20th anniversary. “I was in my teens and my life revolved around touring. On the rare free days at home, I almost didn’t cook at all because it always felt like a chore.”
The “All Too Well” singer said that “watching Ina prepare a dish changed my view of cooking and reframed it as something relaxing.”
“She made cooking feel like self-care,” Swift added. “Since then, cooking has been my escape from stress and one of the only ways I can really calm down on a hard day. I will always be grateful to her for giving me that.”
October edition of the magazine The Wall Street Journal is now available.
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