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- There's a rumor going
around that Taylor Swift

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and former Formula One world
champion Fernando Alonso

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are dating.

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It's fake,

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but I'm gonna have to get
into gossip reporter mode

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to tell you why.

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See, everyone thinks
that this rumor started

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with deuxmoi on Twitter.

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I can tell you where it really came from.

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See, out on Tumblr, there's a
little section called f1bler,

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for all the fans of Formula
One across the world.

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But being Tumblr, they
still act like it's Tumblr.

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There's fan art, there's shipping,
there's incorrect quotes.

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When you're in that section of Tumblr,

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it takes exactly two pieces of information

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to set off a rumor.

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One, Taylor Swift is freshly single.

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Two, Fernando Alonso is freshly single.

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And wouldn't it be funny
those two got together?

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That's how it started.
Just Tumblr shipping.

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Looking at these two
celebrities freshly on their own

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and thinking, "Yeah, I
could see that happen."

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Have Taylor Swift and Fernando
Alonso ever met? Who knows?

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She's been to Formula One.

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It's possible they've
bumped into each other.

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Have they ever been seen
together in a romantic context?

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Is this a rumor with
literally any backing?

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Absolutely not.

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No matter how many TikToks
Fernando Alonso posts

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using Taylor Swift songs,
they're not dating.

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There's nothing to the rumor.

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He's just messing with all of the fans

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who think it would be neat.

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- [Interviewer] There
have obviously been -

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- No, no.

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- [Interviewer] Been
rumors over the break.

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- I answered already.

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- [Interviewer] Did you answer already?

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- Yes.

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- [Interviewer] All I saw
was you wink at the camera.

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- I have nothing to say.

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- For more on this,

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and everything else in the
dating life of Fernando Alonso,

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keep your eyes peeled to jalopnik.com.