The Project host Georgie Tunny goes into complete meltdown over Taylor Swift’s surprise Tortured Poets Department double album drop: ‘I’m unwell!’

The Project host Georgie Tunny went into complete meltdown live on air over Taylor Swift‘s double album drop on Friday.

The global megastar shocked fans when she revealed her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, was a surprise double edition, unveiling 31 new songs for delighted listeners.

Swifties were sent into a frenzy after the double release and were quick to share their theories on the meanings of the lyrics on Taylor’s most personal album yet.

And die-hard fan Georgie, 33, was quick to get involved with the mania as she sent her The Project co-hosts into hysterics as she struggled to contain herself on air.

During a Taylor-dedicated segment on the show, Rove MacManus revealed that they would be speaking to radio host and Swiftie Nic Kelly to evaluate the new release.

But the comedian, 50, was left in hysterics as Georgie struggled to keep her cool on the panel beside him and went into a complete meltdown in true mega-fan style.

She looked wide-eyed with shock and held her hands to her face as she became overwhelmed with excitement, as Rove laughed and asked her if she was ‘alright’.

Sharing her very candid reaction to the exciting double release, Georgie gushed: ‘I’m very unwell, I am unwell! What in the hell? Two albums, two!’

As diehard Nic shared his excitement about the album and discussed the new tracks on video call, Susie Youssef asked Georgie if she was remembering to breathe amid her excitement.

‘We’re not breathing,’ Georgie declared of her and Nic’s reactions to the double release.

Their co-hosts joked that Georgie and Nic were speaking a ‘different language’ as they discussed the songs, with the rest of the panel proving themselves not to be Swifties.

Georgie joined fans in theorising that new track thanK you aIMee is about her feud with Kim Kardashian, given the capital letters spell out the TV star’s name.

She also shared her annoyance that she had only been able to listen to a handful of songs from the 31-track-long epic as she complained about having to be at work on the big day. 

‘I’ve only been able to listen to like three songs,’ she fumed to her co-hosts.

Taylor sent social media into meltdown when she dropped the 16-track record at midnight ET (2am UK time), before announcing 15 bonus songs just two hours later.

She was accused of trying to con her fans by dropping the 15 further surprise new tracks, after fans had already splashed out to buy multiple versions of the original record in a bid to get their hands on the initial all four bonus tracks. 

Of the surprise second half of the release, Taylor told her followers that she’d written ‘so much tortured poetry in the past two years’ that she wanted to share it with her fans.

Sharing the double album was called The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, she wrote on Instagram: ‘It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album.

‘I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.’ 

While the deluxe version is not yet available for Taylor’s website, there were four different versions of the original album available, each containing a different bonus track, are priced at £13.99 ($17.38).

The vinyl version, including bonus track The Manuscript, costs £33.99 ($42.23), while a ‘phantom clear vinyl’ is price the same.

This means that if Swifties were willing to splash out on every incarnation of the album, it will already set them back over £140 ($174).

It remains to be seen how much more this new supersized version of the album, and its various vinyl counterparts, will cost.

Despite the prospect of hefty price tag, many of Taylor’s fans, who were still dissecting the first 16 songs, went into meltdown that there were even more tracks for them to enjoy.

The Tortured Poets Department also struck to same chord with critics, with many reviews praising the ‘gloriously chotic’ and ‘audacious’ effort. 

Critics were quick to brand Taylor’s album her ‘most personal yet’ and branded it a ‘sharp savage attack on her British exes,’ after fans speculated that several tracks took aim at her former flames Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy.

Writing in Variety, Chris Willman noted that the album is ‘renewing Taylor’s vows with heartbreak,’ noting that it had been a decade since she had released a similar record taking such swipes at her exes.

Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffeld described the album as her ‘most personal album yet,’ adding: ‘It’s the cathartic confession of a woman who thought she had adulthood — and adult romance — all figured out, only to find herself realizing she knows nothing.

‘Even by Swiftian standards, she gets wildly ambitious with her songwriting here.’

Referencing the album before Taylor unveiled 15 bonus tracks, The Daily Mail’s Adrian Thrills penned: ‘There’s certainly a sense that she’s pulling out all the stops on The Tortured Poets Department. 

‘Even for someone with a track record of lengthy, value-for-money albums, it’s a mammoth undertaking. 

‘Its 16 songs stretch out across 66 tireless minutes, with bonus tracks take the running time to over 74 minutes. 

‘It’s essentially a double album. It’s also an immersive, cinematic affair that often feels more like an old Hollywood film script than a straightforward pop record.’

Many fans had predicted that The Tortured Poets Department album would be the ultimate Joe/Taylor ‘break-up album’ as it’s been speculated the name was a direct dig at the British actor, who she dated from 2016 to early 2023. 

Taylor – who recently teased a ‘timetable’ to her fans ahead of the LP’s release – initially announced the album while attending the 2024 Grammys in February.