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Taylor Swift surprises Todrick Hall for birthday with homemade treats, designer gift

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News headlines today: April 5, 2019
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ByAndrea Tuccillo
April 05, 2019, 6:05 PM

It’s already a well-known fact that Taylor Swift takes good care of her friends, but she proved it once again this week with her pal Todrick Hall.

The former "American Idol" contestant and MTV star shared a post on Instagram saying that Swift couldn’t make his 34th birthday party, so she decided to surprise him with homemade treats and a designer gift instead.

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“OMG the old Taylor couldn’t come to the birthday party tonight cuz she had to fly out,” Todrick wrote. “So she HAND MADE me my favorite thing in the world, homemade cinna-stix for the party & surprised me with the BEATEST MOST SICKENING GAGGETROCIOUS suit jacket I have ever seen!”

It was an Alexander McQueen suit jacket and Hall said he had been trying it on for the last three weeks.

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“I legit COULD NOT BREATHE when I saw the gift,” he said. “I will be wearing this to every event I go to for the next year thanx to my BFF/Fairy Godmother.”

He posted a series of photos of himself and Swift and the cinna-stix she made. Swift even spelled out in icing, “Todrick loves cinna-stix. I [heart] Todrick."

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Hall first met Swift backstage at one of her tour stops in 2015 after he made a viral mash-up video singing her songs. He appeared in the video for her hit song "Look What You Made Me Do."

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