The “Twilight” actor, who offered the award to his girlfriend, thought it was a pre-planned “skit” till Swift rotated and he noticed her face.
It has been 14 years since Kanye West stormed the stage on the “MTV Video Music Awards” to interrupt Taylor Swift and declare Beyoncé’s “Single Girls “top-of-the-line movies of all time,” and individuals are nonetheless taking about it!
Taylor Lautner was entrance and heart — properly, extra particularly he was again and heart — when all of it went down, and he was courting Swift on the time. The “Twilight” actor unpacked his experiences that night time together with his present spouse, Taylor Dome, on their “The Squeeze” podcast.
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Dome requested Lautner what profession second he would select to relive if he may and clearly didn’t count on him to pinpoint this second that went down in leisure historical past.
“Most likely the 2009 VMAs once I offered the award to Taylor,” he mentioned, to which his spouse responded whereas dying with laughter that she was fairly merely “deceased.”
Lautner and Swift dated for just some months, however it simply so occurred that they had been courting on that night time. What’s extra, Lautner was the one who offered Greatest Feminine Video, which Swift received for “You Belong with Me.”
As everybody is aware of, West stormed the stage with one thing to say, and the remainder is historical past. Whereas Lautner was proper there, there is a motive he is not a part of our collective recollections of that night time. It is as a result of he simply form of stood there.
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As he defined it, “I used to be unaware the Kanye factor was not a skit.” He went on to element that they’d simply gone public as a pair and after he offered her the award, he stepped again about 5 toes so she may give her acceptance speech.
“In the midst of giving her thank-you speech, Kanye jumps up onto the stage,” Lautner recalled. “I can barely hear it. I can’t see them. I’m simply assuming that this entire factor was a practiced and rehearsed skit. As a result of why else would Kanye West be leaping up on the stage, interrupting Taylor Swift? It simply didn’t make sense.”
And so, he stood again and assumed every part was okay and that his girlfriend was up there laughing together with no matter shenanigans had been occurring. He even defined why he will be seen laughing behind them.
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“In the event you look again at it, I’m truly caught like laughing, laughing at him,” he mentioned, including that he remembered considering, “‘I can’t hear them, however that is most likely actually humorous proper now.'”
Solely it wasn’t a joke in any respect. “He jumped off, she completed [and] the second she turned again round and I noticed her face for the primary time, I used to be like, ‘Oh. No, that wasn’t good,'” Lautner mentioned.
Beyoncé tried to make issues proper later that night time. When she received Video of the 12 months for “Single Girls,” she invited Swift again as much as the stage to complete her acceptance speech.
Each Lautner and Swift have since moved on of their romantic relationships. Lautner and Dome wed in November 2009, along with her amusingly taking his final title in order that they have the very same title. Swift has been concerned with Joe Alwyn since 2016.
