{"id":681734,"date":"2026-07-09T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681734\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:19:11","slug":"bbc-learning-english-learning-english-from-the-news-taylor-swift-marries-travis-kelce-at-madison-square-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681734\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Learning English &#8211; Learning English from the News \/ Taylor Swift marries Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Sara Konradi for The Washington Post and Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartRadio, via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Medium courses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/medium_course\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/p0n8v78t.jpg\" id=\"1_p0n8v78t\" data-type=\"image\" data-pid=\"p0n8v78t\" data-title=\"Too hard? Try something easier.\" data-description=\"\"  width=\"336\" alt=\"Too hard? Try something easier.\"\/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Our World in English\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/our-world-in-english\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/p0n8v78w.jpg\" id=\"1_p0n8v78w\" data-type=\"image\" data-pid=\"p0n8v78w\" data-title=\"Too easy? Try something harder.\" data-description=\"\"  width=\"336\" alt=\"Too easy? Try something harder.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story<\/p>\n<p class=\"lx-c-summary-pointsitem\">Pop star Taylor Swift has married American football player Travis Kelce at a huge wedding in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lx-c-summary-pointsitem\">The couple hired Madison Square Gardens, a sports arena and concert venue which can hold around 20,000 people. About 1,000 people, including many celebrities, were reportedly invited to the wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lx-c-summary-pointsitem\">Whilst there were many rumours about the wedding, the event had lots of secrets. For example, guests could not tell people they were attending, and were reportedly unable to take photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News headlines\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s rumoured wedding celebrations begin with star-studded New York event <br \/>BBC News<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;pinch me moment&#8217;: Details emerge from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce&#8217;s New York wedding <br \/>Sky News<\/p>\n<p>Taylor &amp; Travis &#8211; how AI images fill the gap when there\u2019s no news <br \/>BBC Bitesize<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/features\/LEFTN\/260708_LEFTN_Taylor_Swift_wedding_worksheet.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/p0n8v7bc.jpg\" id=\"1_p0n8v7bc\" data-type=\"image\" data-pid=\"p0n8v7bc\" data-title=\"Click to download a worksheet.\" data-description=\"\"  width=\"336\" alt=\"Click to download a worksheet.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key words and phrases<\/p>\n<p>star-studded<br \/>lots of famous people are involved<\/p>\n<p>The film premiere was a star-studded event, with lots of celebrities on the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p>pinch me moment<br \/>a moment that is unbelievable and feels like a dream<\/p>\n<p>Getting my exam results was a pinch me moment. I couldn\u2019t believe I&#8217;d done so well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>fill the gap<br \/>provide an alternative when something isn&#8217;t available<\/p>\n<p>Journalists couldn\u2019t reach the town after the disaster, so local social media videos filled the gap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/send\/u178220599\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/p0n8v79l.jpg\" id=\"1_p0n8v79l\" data-type=\"image\" data-pid=\"p0n8v79l\" data-title=\"Subscribe to our newsletter.\" data-description=\"\"  width=\"336\" alt=\"Subscribe to our newsletter.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next<\/p>\n<p>If you find learning English from the news useful, find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/news_english\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more programmes here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Georgie and Phil tell stories about meeting famous people in &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/our-stories\/251107\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Our Stories<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Explore different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/topics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">topics<\/a> in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by Sara Konradi for The Washington Post and Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartRadio, via Getty Images) \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}