Swift, Kennedy break up

Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy have reportedly split up.

The We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together hitmaker – who has dated a host of Hollywood hunks in the past including Taylor Lautner and Jake Gyllenhaal – are said to have amicably broken up "a while ago" but there are "no hard feelings" between the pair.

A friend told Us Weekly: "They quietly parted ways a while ago. It was just a distance thing. No hard feelings. They’re fine."

Swift – who has also previously dated singers John Mayer and Joe Jonas – is not thought to have seen Kennedy, who is the son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the late Mary Kennedy, for more than a month as the 22-year-old singer has been busy promoting her fourth studio album Red, which was released on Monday (22 October).

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The friend added: "It’s been over a month since they’ve even seen each other. With her promotion for Red, she has no time off until the end of the year."

However, another source told Radar Online that Swift "freaked him out" by coming on too strong.

"Conor’s just an 18-year-old kid and wasn’t ready for anything super serious. But Taylor is looking for her soulmate and it kind of freaked him out with how strong she came on."

Swift and Kennedy were first spotted together in July and the blonde beauty was said to have missed him so much when she left him in Massachusetts to go home to Nashville over the summer that she chartered a private jet so he could visit her.

Speaking at the end of August, a source explained: "Taylor missed Conor so much, she sent a plane for him a few days later. He’s been with her ever since, and his family doesn’t know when he will be back.

"Things have become so serious between them so fast that no one in Hyannis Port [where the Kennedy family’s summer home is located] would be surprised if they eloped."

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