Overview
- Alysa Liu, presenting Artist of the Year, told Taylor Swift on Thursday at the iHeartRadio Music Awards that Swift’s narration and music boosted Team USA’s figure skating run, saying, “I think that’s why we won.”
- Swift blushed in the audience, then hugged Liu onstage and praised her diligence and joyful skating during the acceptance speech.
- Swift attended with fiancé Travis Kelce and left the Los Angeles show with seven trophies, becoming the night’s most-awarded artist.
- Before the Milan Games, Swift narrated an NBC promo that introduced Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito as the “Blade Angels,” and she licensed her song “The Fate of Ophelia” for Olympic ads.
- Liu won gold in women’s singles and the team event in February, and after skipping the World Championships she has said she plans to return next season and aims to defend her title at the 2030 Games.