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.
The connections made between Emmys actors and Taylor Swift easter eggs were truly of the Swiftie hive caliber, with a number 13 traced to DTF St. Louis for 13 Emmy nominations. Swift’s favorite and lucky number led the investigators to St. Louis, Missouri which connected to Kansas City, Missouri where Swift’s husband Travis Kelce plays for NFL team The Kansas City Chiefs.
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, Drive-Ins & Dives, which Hargitay referenced in her musical opening to the Emmys ceremony. Triple D connected to Swift’s song “The Getaway Car,” and add a few more leaps and bounds, the Chiefs vs. Denver Bronco games, which was on during the Emmys, came up.
Though she didn’t appear at the Peacock Theatre, in walked Swift to the sketch, calling out her cameo by saying “Maybe she’ll do one of those cool pre-taped sketch things to support the host.”
Swift is known for naming one of her three famous cats after Hargitay’s SVU character, Olivia Benson. She looked up in awe as the theme sound for the show played in the background as the skit wrapped up. The cat for which Hargitay’s character served as namesake also made an appearance.
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