Matty Healy spent his bachelor party in Malibu while preparing to marry Gabbriette Bechtel, and the timing has pushed his brief 2023 relationship with Taylor Swift back into view. The latest attention centers on a tabloid report that treats Swift as part of the wedding conversation, not just the history.
Healy’s celebration included a performance with The 9075, the tribute band that played songs by The 1975, while Gabbriette marked her own weekend in Las Vegas. That split-screen setup gives the wedding run-up a public-relations edge that most celebrity couples never face this close to the ceremony.
Malibu and Las Vegas
Healy joined the musicians for songs including The Sound and Sex, wore a wig resembling one of his earlier looks, danced with the group, and crowd-surfed above the guests. George Daniel attended the party, turning what could have been a private pre-wedding night into a visibly band-centered gathering.
Gabbriette’s Las Vegas weekend moved in the opposite direction: TMZ reported that it began with a staged arrest, then continued with her being jokingly handcuffed and carried onto a private jet. She also wore vintage Chanel, which made the trip feel designed as a controlled spectacle rather than a loose party weekend.
Denise Welch on Swift
Denise Welch said on Loose Women in 2024 that the family “couldn't be happier” about the engagement and added that Healy had commissioned a black diamond ring. By July 2025, during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, she said the situation was “tricky” and also said she had nothing against Swift personally, while describing what the relationship and its aftermath had done to her son as something she hated.
That contradiction is why the story keeps resurfacing. Healy and Swift were linked in spring 2023 and ended their relationship in June 2023, but the discussion did not stop there; Healy later said he was no longer interested in writing publicly about casual romantic relationships because he did not want his personal life to become entertainment.
Brooklyn to the Wedding
Healy and Gabbriette first sparked romance rumors in September 2023, then announced their engagement after attending Charli XCX's show in Brooklyn the following June. The pace matters because it explains why the wedding is drawing commentary now: the relationship moved from rumor to engagement quickly, and the bachelor and bachelorette weekends have turned the final stretch into a public event.
The practical question is narrower than the gossip suggests: when exactly is the ceremony? The answer has not been laid out, so the next real marker is the wedding itself, and the closer it gets, the more every old chapter around Healy is likely to get dragged back into the frame.
