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NEWS UPDATE: From the Eras Tour to the ‘Errors’ Tour – a look at Taylor Swift’s onstage mishaps and malfunctions ahead of her upcoming UK sold out shows
After a long highly-anticipated wait, Taylor Swift has finally arrived in the UK for the latest leg of her Eras Tour. The global megastar, 34, began the European leg of her £1.4billion tour last month as she returned with a new edited set list and costumes to go with her newly released album The Tortured Poets Department.
With an array of glamorous outfits, dynamic staging and incredible back up dancers, Taylor treats fans to a three hour set list as she takes them through each of her albums. On Friday night the singer will play the first of three nights at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh before heading to Liverpool, Cardiff and London for dates throughout June.
However her performances haven’t come without their mishaps, as we take a look at the unplanned errors in the eras concert and Taylor proves the show must go on.As well as her impressive 45 song-long set, the star has also brought the theatrics to the show.At one point during the performance, she takes a pool-like dive head-first off of the stage, exiting through a gap in the floor.
Disappearing in the most extravagant way, Taylor left fans in the audience in awe after she first debuted the stunt. However, things didn’t quite go to plan during her show in Tampa Florida as she missed her cue for the iconic dive after the trap door failed to open.
Realising her escape route hadn’t opened up, Taylor was seen exclaiming: ‘What the f**k’ as she laughed with the audience, before adding ‘one more time’ and successfully diving off stage. Taylor was caught off guard during her performance in Chicago after she went from introducing a new member of her band to unexpectedly choking on a bug. Introducing her new member, Taylor gushed: ‘We are so lucky to have them…’ before she was interrupted by a pesky fly.
As the singer began to cough and she told fans through her splutters: ‘Just swallowed a bug I am so sorry. ‘I am totally fine it is so stupid,’ before joking: ‘So delicious’. Taylor suffered a wardrobe malfunction during her performance at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November. The star broke one of her glitzy Louboutin heels mid set as she belted the lyrics to her biggest hit Cruel Summer.
And after tossing the heel into the crowd, the lucky fan who caught the broken sole is selling it to raise money for his cousin’s cancer treatment. Felipe Conrado, who had VIP tickets to all three of Swift’s sold-out shows in Rio de Janeiro, is asking people to spread the word in the hopes a collector will snap up the one-of-a-kind item. ‘As many have been following, we are in a large mobilization to help fund my cousin’s cancer treatment,’ began Felipe, whose caption was translated from Portuguese to English by DailyMail.com. ‘If you can share or disclose, the link is in the bio!’
He insisted that whatever money is made will go directly to his cousin Ângela Conrado’s cancer treatment fund. ‘I’m a BIG Taylor fan, if any collectors are interested in the jump [sic], 100% of the amount will go to the treatment,’ Felipe wrote. ‘Thank you for helping to spread the word, sharing, helping and spreading the word! We going to win this battle.’