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American pop superstar Taylor Swift has officially landed in Melbourne to start the Australian leg of her long-awaited Eras Tour.
With more than 600,000 tickets sold, Australian fans are at feverpitch after it was confirmed that Swift’s flight from Honolulu had touched down at 12.50am, local time.
The 34-year-old pop star was transported across hemispheres in a luxurious private jet, after purchasing enough carbon credits to offset the amount of air travel she has racked up in the last week with her boyfriend’s Superbowl win in Las Vegas.
Swift has roughly two days to get over her jet lag before taking the stage for her first concert in Australia since 2018, in the meanwhile Australia’s media are hoping to get as much access to the superstar as they did when last visited.
With all the tickets already sold, it is not likely that Taylor Swift’s team will bother putting her through the indignity of sitting in a waiting room in a yellowing Australian TV station, before going live on air to less viewers than will be attending her concerts over the next week.
While the media executives remain oblivious to the fact that Taylor Swift could capture the attention of millions more Australians with a simple Instagram post, the assumption that the world’s most famous musical artist would sit on a panel show at some point over the next few days is still very much alive.
And Australia’s last remaining commercial TV producers still hold hope that it will be their programme that gets the opportunity to pressure Taylor Swift into eating vegemite first.
Invented in Melbourne in 1923, Vegemite is a beloved breakfast spread that celebrates everything Australian; brewing too much beer, trying to outdo the English, and being secretly owned by America for quite some time.
There are no recorded examples of Taylor Swift being forced to eat Vegemite on any Australian TV shows before, and therefore, the race is on to see who will be the first to capture this footage.
At time of press, several commercial TV producers were spotted sprinting through Melbourne CBD with a jar of vegemite in hand, in their efforts to to embrace one of the most cringeworthy cliches in Australian media, where we make international guests have an unpleasant experience for our own entertainment!
