Alan Cumming reveals Taylor Swift made him ‘FURIOUS’ when she turned up at his Broadway show for an unexpected reason: ‘What the h**l is Taylor Swift doing backstage?

Taylor Swift once angered an actor purely by mistake when she turned up at his Broadway show. Alan Cumming shared a story about what happened when Taylor came backstage before and a performance of Cabaret which he was starring in on Broadway.

During a a recent appearance on The One Show, the actor – who also hosts The Traitors US – said: “She came to see me when I was in Cabaret on Broadway the last time. I was furious, actually, because they brought her in through the stage door — the company manager was a big Taylor fan. I was like, ‘Why are we not going? What’s happened?’ You know, the pre-show, and kind of the mood was killed, and then she came in, and I remember thinking. ‘What’s going on?’

“And then she came in and she stood right there. I was about to go on, I was like, ‘What the hell is Taylor Swift doing backstage?’ She was like, ‘Hi’ and I was like, ‘Hi.’ And then she went in and everybody was like, quiet, and so the mood of the show was kind of a bit lost at the beginning, so I was kind of furious.”

However, Alan quickly forgave Taylor when he realised what a sweetheart she is, adding: “And then of course afterwards she was, like, the nicest person in the world. I was also furious she was so gorgeous. And then she saw my husband [Grant Shaffer] and she said to him, ‘You must be so proud’ like I was his child… She could not be more charming.”