Ryan Reynolds jokes about Taylor Swift’s expensive babysitting salary

July 23, 2024

Ryan Reynolds mocked the “unaffordable” prices of Taylor Swift’s babysitting services for the four children he shares with his wife Blake Lively.

The Deadpool and Wolverine The 47-year-old star recently made a joke about the billionaire singer-songwriter’s expensive fee during a joint E! News Interview with Hugh Jackman. When his co-star admitted that the 14-time Grammy winner was his family’s nanny, Reynolds replied: “That costs …”

“I think the accountant said ‘cost-prohibitive,'” he continued. “But I think he meant ‘cost-prohibitive-what-are-you-doing-since-I’m-no-longer-your-accountant.'”

Reynolds and Lively have been close friends with Swift for nearly a decade. The couple, who married in 2012, were last spotted in May at the “Anti-Hero” singer’s Eras tour in Madrid, Spain. The Green Lantern Star and the gossip Girl In a video shared on TikTok, the 36-year-old student and her daughters James (9), Inez (7) and Betty (4) were seen singing along and taking selfies.

Lively held Betty in her arms while James and Ines stood in front of their father. At one point, Swift was heard on stage singing the song “Betty” from her 2020 album. folklore. In the song, she famously uses the names of all three of Reynolds and Lively’s daughters. When Swift sang the lyrics “You heard the rumors from Inez,” Lively was seen smiling and pointing to her daughter Inez as she mentioned the names.

Meanwhile, James grabbed her younger sister’s arms and bounced her up and down in the air, while Reynolds stood behind his daughters and quietly recited the lyrics.

The Simple favor The star also took her daughters to Swift’s first concert in Madrid earlier this week, where the “Bad Blood” singer gave Lively’s girls another special shout-out. “I have to say that on folklore“Some of my favorite characters are named James, Inez and Betty,” Swift said into the microphone, according to another viral TikTok video.

This isn’t the first time Swift has featured Reynolds and Lively’s daughters in one of her songs. Swift previously featured James on her 2017 album. Callin which the then two-year-old can be heard saying the word “gorgeous” at the beginning of Swift’s song “Gorgeous”.

When Swift decided to mention her children’s names in the song “Betty,” the A-list couple had not publicly revealed their youngest daughter’s name at the time. However, Reynolds and Lively didn’t seem to mind. Speaking to Jess Cagle during a SiriusXM Town Hall event in 2021, Reynolds explained that he and his wife were flattered when Swift decided to use their daughters’ names in her song because they “completely” trust the singer.

“The names are our children’s names, but we trust her implicitly and she’s very sensitive to things like that. And of course the song has nothing to do with our children other than their names,” Reynolds said. “We thought it was pretty, pretty unbelievable. We still do. I still walk down the street and shake my head and think, ‘I can’t believe that happened.'”

Reynolds and Lively also welcomed a fourth child in February 2023, whose name has not yet been announced.