Chinese ‘gamble’ on Taylor Swift’s love life


  • TECH
  • Friday, 01 Jul 2016

epa05287626 Singer Taylor Swift arrives on the red carpet for the 2016 Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of the exhibit 'Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology' in New York, New York, USA, 02 May 2016. The exhibit will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute from 05 May to 14 August 2016. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

BEIJING: US pop singer Taylor Swift’s love life has become the latest unlikely product on Chinese online marketplace Taobao, with buyers gambling on whether she will break up with rumoured boyfriend British actor Tom Hiddleston. 

Hiddleswift “insurance” plans are priced at one yuan (60sen) at Taobao shops and offer to double the pay if the couple split up within periods ranging from six months to a year, a search by AFP on July 1 showed. 

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