REPORT: Taylor Swift set for epic return to The Graham Norton Show next month to promote her much-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl.

Taylor Swift will make an epic return to The Graham Norton Show next month to promote her eagerly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl.

The singer, 35, will appear on the next series of the popular chat show which begins on on Friday, September 26.

Taylor will be on the episode that airs on Friday October 3 – the day that her record is released. The newly-engaged star will appear on the show alongside Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy, actors Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith, and Irish star Domhnall Gleeson.

Lewis Capaldi will also appear on the show to perform his new single Something In The Heavens.

It will mark her return to the chat show.

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Taylor Swift will make an epic return to The Graham Norton Show next month to promote her eagerly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl

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The singer, 35, will appear on the next series of the popular chat show which begins on on Friday, September 26 (seen performing on the show in 2019)

The songstress performed on the show in 2019 to promote her album Lover.

And in 2022, she appeared alongside actor Eddie Redmayne and Bono to talk about her record Midnights and her re-recording albums.

The Life of a Showgirl is due out on October 3 and the 12-track project features Sabrina Carpenter on the titular single.

Taylor created the collection of new music while performing her Eras tour throughout 2024.

‘I would do three shows in a row, [and then] I’d have three days off. I’d fly to Sweden, [then] go back to the tour,’ the singer-songwriter told fiancé Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce while announcing the new album on an August episode of their New Heights podcast.

She recalled: ‘I was physically exhausted at this point in the tour, but I was so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating.’

About working with music legend Max Martin, she added: ‘It meant the world to me to have this creative experience, where [Max Martin, producer Shellback and I] knew that we had to bring the best ideas we’ve ever said. ‘I also know the pressure I’m putting on this record by saying that, but I don’t care ’cause I love it that much, and I’m so proud of it.

‘It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in my life.

‘So, that effervescence has come through on this record.’

Swift revealed that the album cover is meant to depict what the ‘end of [her] night’ looks like on tour,

‘My day ends with me in a bathtub – not usually in a bedazzled dress – but we try to keep it decent,’ Swift joked. ‘I wanted to glamorize all the different aspects of how [the Eras Tour] felt and [the The Life Of A Showgirl cover] is how that felt at the end of the night.’

Swift said she chose that image because it best represents the album, which centers around the feelings and experiences in her ‘offstage’ life.

As revealed by Swift, the album’s song titles are: The Fate Of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, Opalite, Father Figure, Eldest Daughter, Ruin The Friendship, Actually Romantic, Wi$h Li$t, Wood, CANCELLED!, Honey and The Life Of A Showgirl.

The podcast episode also provided devout Swift and Kelce fans with a rare look at their nearly two-year romance – with many on X calling him a ‘green flag’ boyfriend.

During the sit-down with Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce, Swift recalled how her boyfriend first got her attention, when he attended one of her Eras Tour concerts in July 2023.

Kelce planned to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it, but he was unable to meet her after the show. Later, he talked about it on the podcast, which Swift heard, leading to them finally meeting.

‘This dude didn’t get a meet and greet, and he’s making it everyone’s problem,’ Swift joked.The Karma hitmaker compared their love story to being in ‘an 80’s John Hughes movie’ adding, ‘and he was just like standing outside my window with a boom box just being like ‘I wanna date you!”

‘I was like, if this guy isn’t crazy – which is a big if – this is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.’

The sweet appearance also featured plenty of PDA, including Kelce kissing Swift’s hand and gushing that he was ‘the luckiest man in the world.’

They then announced their engagement just a few weeks after the new album announcement.