Fans In Frenzy As Matty Healy's Fiancée Gabriette Posts Cryptic Bathtub Photo — A Subtle Dig At Taylor Swift?

One arresting image has sent fan communities into overdrive: Gabbriette's bathtub photograph has been widely compared to Taylor Swift's bathtub album imagery and read as a possible, pointed reference to recent celebrity tensions.

Gabbriette, professionally known as Gabbriette Bechtel, posted a moody, dimly lit bathtub image on her verified Instagram account that quickly travelled across TikTok and fan forums. The post itself included no captional explanation, but fans were swift to draw parallels between the photograph and Swift's prominent bathtub imagery from her The Life Of A Showgirl era, noting composition, wardrobe, and the shared 'bathtub as spectacle' motif.

That chain of association was amplified by a couple of shots in the same Instagram carousel showing Matty Healy, Gabbriette's fiancé, leaning in, an image that fed the narrative because Healy was briefly linked to Swift in 2023.

Within hours, the photograph became a text fans could annotate; some saw provocation, others saw a fashion recreation, and a wider audience watched the debate become a flashpoint for long-running disputes between artist communities and their followers. The online reaction is part image analysis, part gossip, and part cultural commentary.

Visual Echoes and the Case For Comparison

Visually, the resemblance fans have cited is straightforward. Both images feature a pop figure posed in a bathtub as a deliberate, stylised tableau rather than a private domestic snapshot.

Swift's album visuals for The Life Of A Showgirl (released 03 October 2025) include a number of bathtub photographs that Swift and her team have described as representing the off-stage aftermath of performing. The imagery is now globally recognisable.

Gabbriette's post shares a similar staging; theatrical, composed, and intended for public circulation, which makes it easy for attentive fans to draw a line between the two. That link, however, is a reading rather than a declaration. The photograph on Gabbriette's Instagram contains no explicit reference to Swift.

Fan Narratives: Linking People, Songs and Scenes

Fans have not worked in isolation, the wider web of personal connections and recent public rows gives those readings texture. Matty Healy, frontman of The 1975 and Gabbriette's fiancé, was briefly linked to Swift in 2023; press coverage of that period and Healy's later, somewhat flippant remarks about Swift's music have kept the association alive.

Meanwhile, Charli XCX, who is close to Gabbriette and who is married to George Daniel, the drummer associated with The 1975, has herself been part of a very public dispute with Swift fans and has declined to comment directly on whether recent songs reference her.

Those intersecting relationships create the ecosystem in which a single image can be read as symbolic or scripted.

What This Episode Reveals About Fandom and Celebrity

If nothing else, the episode is a study in how contemporary fandom works: images are not inert. They are provocation points, substrates for narrative construction, and shorthand for lines of allegiance.

In this case, a composed domestic tableau, a bathtub photograph, becomes an emblem because of pre-existing narratives linking musicians, lovers, and collaborators. For readers and audiences, the prudent takeaway is twofold: recognise the genuine evidence (the post, the carousel images, the public relationships) and resist collapsing inference into proof.

Fan speculation is newsworthy; it is not the same as a confirmed motive.