Taylor Swift's Christmas love for chicken pot pie

Music megastar Taylor Swift's favourite meal at Christmas was chicken pot pie, a private chef has revealed.

Elliott Bloomfield was flown to a castle in Ireland to spend a week cooking for a "special guest" in 2018.

He said the Swift's identity was kept tightly under wraps until she arrived with her family in a helicopter on Christmas Eve.

Mr Bloomfield, who now runs a fine food business near Aylsham, Norfolk, said he cooked her "British festive" food but said chicken pot pie was her favourite.

Swift spent almost £50,000 renting Glin Castle in County Limerick for six days in 2018, as reported by The Sun newspaper.

She was said to have drunk in a local pub on Boxing Day.

"She was very friendly and grateful for the food." Mr Bloomfield said.

"When we got chatting she asked where I was from.

"I said Norwich and she mentioned that a couple of years back she'd performed with Snoop Dogg at Earlham Park and she was raving about Norwich," he added.

The pop songstress performed at Radio 1s Big Weekend in Norwich in 2015.

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