Taylor Swift is ‘secretly dating’ British actor Joe Alwyn

This singing star has been lying low for months but it seems she has had company.

Taylor Swift is reportedly dating English actor Joe Alwyn, and has been sneaking around London in disguise in a bid to keep their romance under wraps.

The 27-year-old American hitmaker and the 26-year-old actor are already very serious, The Sun has claimed.

The pair have reportedly been dating for ‘several’ months.

While Joe may not be a household name – and even still reportedly lives with his mother and father – he is a star in Taylor’s life.

A source told the paper: ‘Taylor and Joe are the real deal, this is a very serious relationship. But after what happened with Tom Hiddleston, they were determined to keep it quiet.’

According to an insider, the songstress has gone to great lengths to keep her romance to the privately educated actor under wraps.

The star has spent a lot of time in the Joe’s native London but has resorted to wearing a wig to keep a low profile.

Taylor has even rented a house in North London where Joe is reportedly a frequent guest.

No repeat: Taylor has been staying out of the public’s eye for three months and, according to the insider, is desperate to avoid the public scrutiny that she faced while dating Tom Hiddleston (pictured July)

To avoid detection further, the Shake It Off star has been jetting back and forth using her private jet and had security keeping her out of sight at all times.

While the measures may sound extreme, Taylor has been staying out of the public’s eye for three months and, according to the insider, is desperate to avoid the public scrutiny she faced while dating Tom Hiddleston.

Joe is the first person Taylor has been linked to since she split with the 36-year-old fellow Brit.

He came to prominence following his first film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.

Two months after his film debut, he landed another major role, in an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.

He has also appeared in a model shoot with Gigi Hadid, a close friend of the singer.

Joe was educated at the fee-paying City of London School, where Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe also attended, as did Skandar Keynes, who starred in the Chronicles of Narnia film series.

He defended his private schooling, saying: ‘I got there on a combination of scholarship and bursary. And because it offers bursaries and scholarships, you had people from all over. I liked that.’

He later studied English and drama at the University of Bristol and London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Until recently he had been playing football for a team on the Hackney Marshes.

Joe, who has only 3,000 followers on Twitter (compared to Taylor’s 84 million), is the son of a psychotherapist mother and documentary-maker father.

Discussing that in an interview with the London Evening Standard, he commented: ‘When I was growing up my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda. When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet…that’s cool.’

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