The Fab Five Took Something From Taylor Swift's Music Video Set And I'm Dying

Photo credit: Taylor Swift VEVO - YouTube
Photo credit: Taylor Swift VEVO - YouTube

From House Beautiful

It's no secret that Taylor Swift's celeb-filled music video for her new single "You Need to Calm Down" broke the internet. The colors, the cameos, and those outfits?! Please. There's pretty much nothing else we could've asked for-except, of course, some exclusive insight into the crazy day from one of the very important celebrity cameos.

Antoni Porowski, co-star of the Netflix hit and Emmy-winning reality series Queer Eye, revealed to us just what it was like filming the music video that doubled as a call for equality and acceptance. Spoiler alert: Antoni says it "was a love fest," but of course-in the ways of T-Swift-it was also super secretive.

"None of us even heard the song," the food and wine connoisseur of the Fab Five revealed over coffee at the Langham Hotel in New York City. (He recently partnered with Saeco, which is how we wound up talking about Taylor as he demo'ed how the machine makes his fave brew.) Apparently, everyone who was on set could only semi-listen to "You Need to Calm Down" through an earpiece! "Everything was a big secret," Antoni continued.

Photo credit: Hearst Owned
Photo credit: Hearst Owned

Antoni revealed that the set was so hush-hush, each person had to be basically hidden at all times-even when they headed to the bathroom. "I went to one of the Porta-Potty areas, and I had to carry an umbrella because there were paps with helicopters trying to see who was on set," he said.

As for the one thing he wishes that he took from the "You Need to Calm Down" set? "There was a honey jar, and it was vintage from the '40s or the '50s. It was this beautiful little glass honey bear that I tried to steal but I didn’t," he revealed. "I kind of wish I did, but I feel like I would’ve gotten in trouble."

Although Antoni didn't end up taking the glass honey jar home, the Fab Five was given another gift to remember their time on Taylor's set.

"Taylor gifted us the outfits that we wore," Antoni said. "So now I am the proud owner of bright pink latex Margiela pants. And a very billowy pink shirt with a bunch of felt on it."

Here's to hoping the Fab Five breaks out their insane "You Need to Calm Down" outfits on season five of Queer Eye-that's one thing we'd definitely love to see.

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