Mariska Hargitay, Taylor Swift and her cat Olivia Benson appear on screen during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2026.
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Taylor Swift drops Easter Eggs during Emmys cameo: ‘Saccharide, Aries, from the vineyard'
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Emmy Producers on Recruiting Taylor Swift, the Ideas She Brought to the Show and How This Year’s Telecast Wound Up Short
Mariska Hargitay, Taylor Swift and her cat Olivia Benson appear on screen during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2026.
Taylor Swift made a surprise cameo in a pre-taped Law & Order: SVU sketch at the 2026 Emmys, with Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson guiding a playful investigation into whether Swift would attend the ceremony, while Swift appeared with her cat Olivia Benson.
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 bigg…
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 bigg…
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards had a distinct bicoastal approach tonight, and let’s be honest, something truly got very lost along the way, to put it politely. Sorry, Stephen Colbert, but “if you like the comedy tonight, my old writers wrote it” may part of the Variety Series winning Late Show’s leg…
"When you make a promise to Captain Benson, you've got to keep it," Jesse Collins, Jeannae Rouzan-Clay and Dionne Harmon tell THR of the surprise 'SVU' sketch with Emmys host Mariska Hargitay coming together.
That Taylor Swift cameo at the Emmys was actually filmed on the Law & Order: SVU set, by the way. After Monday night’s telecast of the 78th annual Emmy awards, producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay joined NBCUniversal’s EVP of Live Events & Specials Jen Neal to break down th…
When you hire Mariska Hargitay to host the Emmys, the fact that she has a few friends in high places pays off. And that starts with Taylor Swift. “They’re genuine friends,” executive producer Dionne Harmon said.
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