It occurred to me yesterday that Taylor Swift is in an interesting position.

All her contemporaries - Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, the Jonas Brothers etc - are all Disney stars and so contract bound to maintain a particular image - but Taylor isn’t.

While she obviously appeals to a similar conservative audience so isn’t suddenly going to brand herself as the next Pussycat Doll anything, she’s doesn’t have to be quite so pure as those aimed primarily at the tween market need to be.

She’s already referenced that there was tensions between her and Joe Jonas over his management’s refusal to let their relationship go public, and suggested he cheated on her with new girlfriend Camilla Belle. If I was Joe Jonas, I’d probably be quite worried about what she’ll say next.

Unlike with Nick Jonas and Miley Cyrus - where any admissions would seriously affect both, Taylor has more power to damage his pure, good boy image - as the fast reaction to the cheating claim shows. (Camilla will also have this power if/when they time comes - probably even more so because it’s her primary claim to fame right now. 10,000 BC, schen thousand BC.)

Any kiss-and-tells would probably damage their chances on the Disney dating scene in the future - but they’re both getting a bit old for it anyway. It would have to be some really serious revelations for it to really affect their adult dating lives - although I suspect many publicists would advise shy stars against dating a blabbermouth unless there was a public interest angle to it. I guess that’s the crux of the issue: if they chose, stars are, of course, entitled to private lives and particularly private sex lives - but if they’re practising one thing and preaching another, then it’s hypocritical and hypocrisy should be exposed.