{"id":770190,"date":"2026-07-18T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770190\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:18:10","slug":"these-days-taylor-swift-keeps-a-low-profile-in-watch-hill-r-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770190\/","title":{"rendered":"These days, Taylor Swift keeps a low profile in Watch Hill, R.I."},"content":{"rendered":"

By 2017, an editorial<\/a> in The Westerly Sun declared Swift \u201cone of us,\u201d writing she had taken to the beach town like a local. She had been seen shopping at McQuade\u2019s Marketplace and Miceli\u2019s Furniture, and grabbing ice cream with fellow musician Ed Sheeran at Mel\u2019s Downtown Creamery in nearby Pawcatuck, Conn.<\/p>\n

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\"TaylorTaylor Swift’s Watch Hill mansion overlooks the Rhode Island coastline.Christopher Gavin\/Globe Staff<\/p>\n

Yet as Swift\u2019s celebrity crossed into the stratosphere, locals say her visibility around Watch Hill has faded. It\u2019s been years since Swift has been seen out and about, locals say, with her presence in town only marked by the increased security at her house.<\/p>\n

Swift once was, if not quite a regular fixture in town, at least a visible part of it. On occasion, she was even seen with other celebrities. In 2014, for example, she took a cooking class to make tuna tacos with another pop star, Lorde, at Ella\u2019s Food & Drink, and later posted about the experience on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wanted to learn how to entertain in her own home at the level of a professional, and she knocked that out of the ballpark,\u201d Jeanie Roland, the chef-owner of Ella\u2019s, recalled in an interview. \u201cShe can cook really well, so everything we did was just icing on the cake, so to speak, for her \u2026 it was at a point in her life where she could do something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift even asked Roland for her phone number, she said. But Roland is not at liberty to discuss what\u2019s happened since then.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody of that level has privacy, they have contracts that people sign. We\u2019ve signed one of them to give her the freedom to enjoy her home as she wants,\u201d Roland said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really important that somebody that comes to the community and invests in it the way that she has is given the chance to breathe in our beautiful ocean air and enjoy your property the way she should. And unfortunately, most times she doesn\u2019t get a break doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe gates were closed at Taylor Swift’s home in Watch Hill, R.I. on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.Christopher Gavin\/Globe Staff<\/p>\n

Andrew Nathan, the chef at The Cooked Goose, said Swift used to stop by with friends, such as actress and singer Selena Gomez, \u201cbefore things got out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s stopped coming by the restaurant about four years ago, around the same time police in New York City arrested a man for trespassing and stalking after he allegedly entered two Tribeca residences connected to the musician<\/a>, Nathan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when she disappeared,\u201d Nathan told the Globe.<\/p>\n

Kathy Dunn, who summers in the home across the street from the singer\u2019s mansion, said she has never seen Swift in the six years she\u2019s been her neighbor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always, you know, hoping to get a glimpse or see her, but [she\u2019s] very private, and she doesn\u2019t use the house that often, truthfully, I don\u2019t think,\u201d Dunn said. \u201cI know she\u2019s got like 10 other houses.\u201d (Swift actually has fewer \u2013 the actual number varies, depending on the news reports. But who\u2019s counting?)<\/p>\n

At Bay Breeze Interiors, an antiques and decor store nearby, manager Bailey Richins said Swift stopped by the shop years ago. Unfortunately, it was on a day Richins was not working.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to see [her], just say I saw her,\u201d Richins said. \u201cYou\u2019re always looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s parents, Andrea and Scott, are known to be in the area more frequently. Both are founding donors of The United Theatre<\/a> in Westerly. Scott Swift is \u201ca wonderful, wonderful, philanthropic, unbelievable guy who\u2019s made a lot of friends along those lines in Watch Hill,\u201d Nathan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer parents are remarkable,\u201d Nathan said. \u201cWhen you see her parents \u2026 you see where she gets it, the poise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even when the singer-songwriter isn\u2019t present, she\u2019s left her mark on the town. Fans regularly go to Ella\u2019s and order the tuna tacos, Roland said, whether their idol is rumored to be around or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I\u2019m not here, and they leave me notes, which is one thing that\u2019s fantastic about the community that she has created,\u201d Roland said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of just love and giving.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a similar scene at The Cooked Goose: The staff keeps a bag of Swift-themed guitar pics to hand out. Swift\u2019s father \u201cmakes sure we have a constant supply,\u201d Nathan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery little girl that comes in says, \u2018Was Taylor here? Was Taylor here?\u2019\u201d Nathan said. He replies: \u201c\u2018No, she wasn\u2019t here today, but she left these for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Gavin can be reached at christopher.gavin@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By 2017, an editorial in The Westerly Sun declared Swift \u201cone of us,\u201d writing she had taken to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-770190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}