Mary McCarthy: It’s OK to be your gym-mad self, Taylor – teenagers don’t need to see you boozing

Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl last Sunday in Las Vegas, where she was filmed chugging her drink and slamming down her plastic cup as fans in the stadium cheered. Photo: Reuters

Mary McCarthy

I wish Taylor Swift would stop her performative antics with booze. She’s hamming it up and it could cause harm. She’s midway through a gruelling world tour that demands Olympic-level fitness, and I’m not buying this party-girl persona she has curated.

She has hundreds of millions of young eyes watching everything she does, so why is she going out of her way to make drinking seem like a necessary accessory for a night out?

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