Matty Healy ‘split from model weeks before falling for Taylor Swift’

Matty Healy reportedly split from the model he was dating weeks before falling for Taylor Swift.

According to The Sun, the 1975 frontman broke things off with model Meredith Mickelson – who he had been casually dating for a month while in Los Angeles – at the end of February.

“Matty was seeing Meredith while he was in LA in February, but things fizzled out when he went to New York at the end of the month,” an insider told the publication.

“They’re still on good terms but haven’t been romantically involved since then.”

It comes following reports that Healy and Swift are “madly in love” after dating for a few weeks.

In April, it was confirmed that US pop super star Taylor, 33, had split from actor Joe Alwyn, 32, after six years.

A source close to Taylor said: “She and Matty are madly in love. It’s super early days, but it feels right. They first dated, very briefly, almost ten years ago but timings just didn’t work out.

“Taylor and Joe actually split up back in February, so there was absolutely no crossover.

“Both Matty and Taylor have been touring over the past few weeks, so it’s been a lot of Face-Timing and texting but she cannot wait to see him again.

"But as two international megastars, they understand the pressures of one another’s jobs better than anyone, and are incredibly supportive of their respective careers.

“They are both massively proud and excited about this relationship and, unlike Taylor’s last one – which was very much kept out of the spotlight, deliberately – she wants to ‘own’ this romance, and not hide it away.

“Taylor just wants to live her life, and be happy. She’s told pals Matty is flying to Nashville over the weekend to support her on the next leg of her tour.”

Healy and Swift have known each other for years.

They are said to have dated briefly 10 years ago.

Fanning the flames at the time, he was pictured wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt and she later repayed the favour by sporting one featuring his band.

Healy, the son of Loose Women star Denise Welch, denied the claims at the time and later told Q how the idea of dating the Grammy Award-winning songstress was “emasculating”.

He said: “I don’t do anything else, right, so it doesn’t leave a lot of room for me going out, or s***ging someone.

“So the one time I did have a flirtation with a girl it ends up going everywhere… I mean, I got on E! News and people were like, ‘Who’s Matty Healy?’ so that was cool.”

He added: “[...] If I had gone out with Taylor Swift I would’ve been, ‘F**king hell! I am NOT being Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.’ You know, ‘F**K. THAT.’

“That’s also a man thing, a de-masculinating, emasculating thing.”

The frontman later clarified his comments in a string of tweets, writing: “Now I may admit to being an idiot on occasion, but I am not a misogynist. This suggestion makes me really sad.”