Add Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to the list of Taylor Swift's credits. The singer songwriter made a guest appearance in a pre-taped sketch for the 2026 Emmys featuring host Mariska Hargitay.
The bit began with Hargitay getting her colleagues to "think like Swifties" in order to answer the biggest question for the telecast: "Will Taylor Swift be at the Emmys?" The situation quickly turned into one not unlike Charlie Day's red string board from It's Almost Sunny in Philadelphia .
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The rabbit hole evolved from red jersey color to "Bad Blood" to The Amazing Race , which was traced to Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl was connected to Barbara Corcoran, "stick a fork in it" which went to empanada and circulated back to Diners, Dri...