Dr. Mehmet Oz and Lisa Oz say the young Taylor Swift once sang for them
Lisa Lemole Oz, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Taylor Swift
Getty ImagesTaylor Swift has always had fans Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife, Lisa Oz.
“Taylor grew up in Pennsylvania, near Philly, and the interesting thing is that when she was a younger woman, a girl, actually, her parents called Lisa's parents and said, 'Come over! Watch our daughter perform,” Mehmet, 63, recalled exclusively We weekly at Shaq's Fun House in Las Vegas on Friday, February 9. “Any rational person would try to get out of that deal, but in her case she was a superstar and it worked.”
Lisa, 60, agreed to let Swift, now 34, who was about 12 years old at the time, sing to “all the kids in the neighborhood in Stone Harbor.” (Mehmet and Lisa, like Swift and her family, are from Pennsylvania.)
Swift got her big break in 2005 when she signed a 13-year recording contract with Big Machine Records. Although she has since parted ways with Big Machine, Swift has released ten studio albums and won fourteen Grammys. Her 11th album, The department of tortured poets, drops in April. She has also been steadily re-releasing her first six albums after Big Machine allegedly failed to sell her the masters in 2019.
Taylor Swift started writing songs about love and breakups in the early 2000s, but her talent was quickly recognized by music executives who knew she was the real deal. From releasing her first record in 2006 to gracing stages around the world, this star has earned her place in the Hollywood A-list music scene. […]
After Swift made waves on the music scene, she ran into the TV doctor at a Time 100 party “years later.”
Lisa Lemole Oz and Dr. Mehmet Oz
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for fanatics“She confirmed the story [at the party]so I know it's true,” Mehmet joked Us. “Imagine being dragged to your friend's house [or] Can you imagine not going and [saying], 'I don't want to see your daughter perform! Come on!'”
Mehmet and Lisa have continued to support Swift's career over the years, even bringing their “whole family” to her 2023 Eras tour concert in Philadelphia.
“[We] I packed everything, but we packed it together with our family,” Mehmet joked. “We all came. This time we had to pay to come.”
Mehmet further noted that Swift's music has allowed him to bond with his grandchildren.
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“The 10-year-old granddaughter told me about 'Blank Space.' I took her to school, and she started playing it the other day, and she remembered when we saw it in concert,” he mused. “That's a great line, you know? 'Nightmare dressed as a daydream.'”
Mehmet and Lisa got out Shaquille O'Neal's pre-Super Bowl party before the big game on Sunday, February 11. As Swift will likely attend the NFL championship game in support of his friend Travis KelceMehmet and Lisa revealed their thoughts about the couple.
“I support it,” Mehmet said, despite being a proud Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Kelce, 34, is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, who will play the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII. The football star started dating Swift in the summer of 2023, just months before her NFL game.
If Kelce and Swift push things to the limit, they can learn a thing or two from Mehmet and Lisa, who have been married for almost 40 years.
'Her father gave me very valuable advice when we first got married. He said, “You're going to have to make a lot of decisions. When you make small decisions, give in to your wife so that when the big decisions come, you know how it feels because you don't make them either,” Mehmet said. Us.
With reporting by Hannah Kahn