{"id":2050985,"date":"2025-09-26T05:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2050985"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:34:20","slug":"how-valerie-bertinelli-eddie-van-halens-1987-photo-is-taylor-swift-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-valerie-bertinelli-eddie-van-halens-1987-photo-is-taylor-swift-related\/","title":{"rendered":"How Valerie Bertinelli, Eddie Van Halen&#8217;s 1987 Photo Is Taylor Swift-Related"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Valerie Bertinelli <\/strong>shared her excitement for <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>&#8216;s upcoming new album by posting a throwback photo with <strong>Eddie Van Halen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bertinelli, who was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/valerie-bertinelli-reflects-falling-eddie-234738804.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:married to the late rocker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">married to the late rocker<\/a> from 1981 to 2007, uploaded the perfect #tbt on Thursday, September 25, a photo from 1987 that featured the One Day at a Time alum and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/why-rock-legend-eddie-van-174111425.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Van Halen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Van Halen<\/a> dressed in costume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Van Halen appeared to be a pirate \u2014 holding an entire bottle of liquor and all \u2014 Bertinelli was dressed head-to-toe as a showgirl, donning a cobalt velvet dress, long white gloves, and an elaborate headpiece. Needless to say, the actress&#8217; getup looks like the azure, &#8217;80s version of Swift&#8217;s orange-tinted showgirl costume that is plastered all over the promo for her upcoming album, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/everything-know-taylor-swift-album-173944606.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Life of a Showgirl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Hot in Cleveland alum referenced so in the caption of her Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;#tbt\u00a01987 Very much looking forward to\u00a0#thelifeofashowgirl\u00a0for over 30 years now \ud83d\ude07\u00a0@taylornation\u00a0@taylorswift\u00a0\u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udd25,&#8221; Bertinelli wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Almost an entire decade before Swift was born in 1989 \u2014 two years before Bertinelli and Van Halen&#8217;s costume photo was taken\u00a0\u2014 the couple met after the band&#8217;s 1980 show in Louisiana &#8230; after locking eyes during the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bertinelli wed the &#8220;Jump&#8221; artist one year later, in 1981, later welcoming son <strong>Wolfgang Van Halen<\/strong>, who went on to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/wolfgang-van-halen-makes-surprising-175904303.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:follow in his father's footsteps;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">follow in his father&#8217;s footsteps<\/a> and become a rockstar in his own right. In 2021, Wolfgang \u2014 or &#8220;Wolfie,&#8221; as Bertinelli calls him \u2014\u00a0was nominated for Best Rock Song at the Grammy Awards for his track, &#8220;Distance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rock royalty rooting on pop royalty? We love to see it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swift&#8217;s The Life of a Showgirl drops on Friday, October 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/valerie-bertinelli-eddie-van-halen-rare-1987-costume-photo-taylor-swift-showgirl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parade<\/a> on Sep 26, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=parade.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Bertinelli shared her excitement for Taylor Swift&#8216;s upcoming new album by posting a throwback photo with Eddie Van Halen. 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