The heartwarming moment Taylor Swift‘s father Scott told security at a Sydney show to bring a mother and her kids into the VIP section has surfaced online.
The precious moment occurred at Swift‘s final Sydney concert on Monday – just hours before Scott ‘Papa’ Swift allegedly assaulted a local photographer.
A TikTok Swiftie posted the clip to the platform, which shows Scott in the foreground of a packed crowd, chatting to security and then pointing out a young mother and her kids. The security guards then approach the mother and escort her into the VIP section, on the orders of Swift.
Swifties quickly took to the comment section to praise Scott’s extraordinary act of kindness. ‘No words for how awesome Scott Swift is,’ one fan gushed and a second person added: ‘I started crying. What a deserving mum.’
The 71-year-old’s kind act came just hours before he was accused of striking photographer Ben McDonald, 51, at a ferry wharf in the suburb of Neutral Bay at about 2.30am on Tuesday, after the Australian leg of her Eras tour wrapped up.
Taylor Swift’s team say an Australian photographer ‘threatened to throw a female staff member into the water’, before her father Scott was accused of punching the man in the face.
Scott and Taylor had travelled from Homebush on a luxury superyacht called Quantum – Footage from the moments before the alleged altercation showed Scott walking up the wharf while giving photographers the middle finger.
A spokeswoman for Taylor Swift told Daily Mail Australia the photographers were being ‘aggressive’. ‘Two individuals were aggressively pushing their way towards Taylor, grabbing at her security personnel, and threatening to throw a female staff member into the water,’ she said.
However, Mr McDonald – the chief executive of Matrix Media Group – slammed the statement as ‘utter rubbish’ and said the only female at the scene was Taylor.
He said the altercation was caught on camera and did not show the photographers acting aggressively. An investigation into the alleged incident has been launched by the North Shore Police Command.
Earlier on Tuesday, the photographer accused Scott of ‘charging’ at him once he was off the superyacht with Taylor.
