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These cats want a playdate! On Thursday, Mariska Hargitay shared a photograph of her new pet cat on social media — and revealed that she named it Karma after a Taylor Swift lyric. It’s a full-circle second for the kitties (and celebrities), since Swift named one among her personal feline mates after Hargitay’s character in Law and Order: SVU: Olivia Benson.
“Karma is a Cat @taylorswift Meet Karma. My Cat.🐱,” Hargitay wrote on Instagram, quoting the lyrics to the Midnights track with hashtags #MeAndKarmaVibeLikeThat and #KarmaIsACat.
“Please bring this baby to work,” Ryan Buggle, who performs her son on SVU, commented on the submit.
Swift is a proud cat woman and owns three kitties, all named after TV or film characters: Benjamin Button, Olivia Benson, and Meredith Grey. Swift even featured Hargitay within the music video for 1989‘s “Bad Blood” alongside Ellen Pompeo, who famously plays Meredith on Grey’s Anatomy.
Hargitay additionally joined the singer onstage throughout two exhibits on her 1989 World Tour in Philadelphia in June 2015, and alongside the opposite well-known mates from the “Bad Blood” music video on the MTV VMAs crimson carpet that very same yr.
It’s unclear if Swift is aware of about Hargitay’s new cat’s moniker. The singer is at present in London, the place she walked the crimson carpet for Beyoncé’s Renaissance movie premiere. Swift confirmed her assist for the musician who made a particular look of her personal on the Los Angeles premiere of the live performance movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour again in October.
