Harry Styles and Taylor Swift spoke on Skype five times a day during their festive separation and even used the software to introduce their families to one another.

Harry Styles and Taylor Swift have introduced their families to one another.

The couple – who will bring in the New Year together tonight (31.12.12) in America – spent much of the festive season apart, but used internet video conferencing programme Skype to cope with their separation and during some of the calls, the One Direction heartthrob got his loved ones to talk to Taylor’s relatives.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “Harry and Taylor spoke online up to five times a day while they were apart. They got their families involved too, so it wasn’t just them locked inside their bedrooms for hours on end. It was a good opportunity to familiarise their families as they were all together at Christmas.”

Harry and Taylor’s reunion this weekend almost didn’t happen after the 18-year-old British star missed his flight from London to the US on Friday morning (28.12.12) – because he forgot his passport.

The ‘One Thing’ singer was left “embarrassed” and behind in his schedule to meet his girlfriend after he missed his 11:15am British Airways flight from Heathrow to Boston because he didn’t have the important document.