Celebs love Taylor Swift’s smack-down speech

REESE Witherspoon has joined a chorus of celebrities who’ve congratulated Taylor Swift after her satisfying takedown of Kanye West at the Grammys.

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REESE Witherspoon has joined a chorus of celebs congratulating Taylor Swift after her epic take-down of Kanye West.

Swift, 26, took a thinly veiled swipe at West as she became the first ever female artist to win the Album Of The Year award twice.

Well spoken ... Singer Taylor Swift accepts the award for the Album of the Year onstage during the 58th Annual Grammys. Picture: AFP

West attracted criticism after he claimed last week in his song, Famous, that he made Swift a star — referring to that moment at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when he hijacked her acceptance speech for Best Female Video to argue that Beyonce deserved the award instead.

“As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame,” she said. “But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going.”

“You will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment,” she said.

Loved it ... Reese Witherspoon. Picture: Supplied

Girl power ... Taylor Swift. Picture: AFP

Witherspoon led the chorus of support for Swift.

“Loved your amazing words! Keep encouraging all those young women to write their stories & sing their songs #Grammys,” she tweeted.

Australian Ruby Rose, who rang in the New Year with Swift, also tweeted that West had crossed a line with the lyrics of his song, Famous.

“Too many lines crossed. If I put myself in the shoes of the women he has hurt recently,” she wrote.

Feminist ... Maria Shriver. Picture: AP

Fangirl ... Ruby Rose. Picture: Instagram

Journalist Maria Shriver, 60, whose cousin, Conor Kennedy, Swift once dated, also joined in support the singer.

“Congrats to @taylorswift13 for making history at #GRAMMYS, but it was her speech to young women and women of all ages that inspired me Bravo,” she tweeted.

West is said tio have offended Swift with the lyrics to his song Famous.

“I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous,” he sings.

Where it all started ... Kayne West (L) jumps onstage after Taylor Swift (C) won the 'Best Female Video' award during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Supplied

While West has claimed that he had an hour-long phone conversation with Swift in which she gave her blessing for the lyrics, her publicist says otherwise.

“Kanye did not call for approval but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account,” her spokesman said of the track. “She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’”