Taylor Swift is gearing as much as kick off a five-night run at London’s Wembley Stadium tonight (August 15) after her Eras Tour reveals in Vienna had been cancelled final week as a consequence of a foiled terror risk. The singer — who has not commented on the plot or made any public appearances for the reason that revelation of the alleged plan to hurt followers gathered for her reveals in Austria was revealed — reportedly took her employees out in London on Monday night time (August 12) to mark the top of the European leg of her juggernaut international outing.
In keeping with Folks, Swift, 34, was seen on the swanky, members-only membership Annabel’s in London for the wrap celebration carrying what Glamour described as a “Cher Horowitz-esque plaid jacket and skirt set from the Vivienne Westwood fall/winter 2024 assortment” paired with a ruffled white shirt and chunky heels.
At press time a spokesperson for Swift couldn’t be reached for touch upon the reported employees outing.
It’s not the primary time Swift has handled her Eras Tour employees. Final August it was reported that the singer gave $100,000 bonuses to every of the 50 truck drivers on her tour, for a reported bonus complete round $5 million; she additionally reportedly gave bonuses to her band members, dancers, lighting and sound techs, caterers and different staffers.
Austrian promoter Barracuda Music introduced on August 7 that it had “no alternative however to cancel” the three reveals deliberate for Ernst Happel Stadium From August 8-10 as a result of risk wherein the suspects had been planning to make use of explosives and knives to assault Swifties exterior the venue in an effort to trigger a mass casualty occasion.
To this point, the principle 19-year-old suspect — who was reportedly radicalized on-line and had pledge allegiance to the Islamic State terror group — has been arrested, together with a 17-year-old who’d reportedly gotten a gig working for an organization offering providers to the stadium. A 15-year-old boy who reportedly had information of the plan however was circuitously concerned, was additionally detained final week and a 3rd suspect believed to be related to the principle suspect was arrested on August 9. A lawyer for the principle suspect stated this week that the case in opposition to his consumer is exaggerated and that he had “neither the means nor the chance and the explosives to hold this out.”
Wembley Stadium introduced earlier this week that Swifties might be let in a bit sooner than regular for the reveals and that set instances have been pushed up for the sold-out gigs that run from tonight by way of Tuesday (August 20). As well as, whereas unticketed Swifties have gathered by the hundreds, typically tens of hundreds, exterior stadiums on the European tour for “tay-gating” occasions, Wembley announce that solely ticketed followers can be allowed to face exterior any entrance or within the space across the stadium. “Non ticket holders might be moved on,” the venue stated in an announcement.
