Swifties have been buzzing since Travis Kelce made his onstage debut during girlfriend Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert in London on June 23, and now he’s sharing details about how his surprise appearance came about.
On the July 3 episode of his “New Heights” podcast, which he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end revealed that he originally entertained the idea of joining Swift on stage at Wembley Stadium.
“It’s very unlike me,” the three-time Super Bowl winner joked. “I don’t love going on stages.”
Her brother, who attended Swift’s other London shows with wife Kylie Kelce, asked who came up with the idea.
“I initially mentioned it to Tay. I was like, ‘How funny would it be if I just rode one of the bikes during ‘1989?’ [portion of the show],’” Travis Kelce explained.
“She started laughing,” he continued. “She was like, ‘Would you really be willing to do something like that?’”
He told her he would “love” to be involved.
“I’ve seen enough of the show – I might as well put myself to work here,” he recalled.
“She definitely found the perfect part of the show for me to join. There was no bike in case I bumped into someone else, hit one of the dancers or something. It was the safest option”, explained young Kelce.
He also shouted out some of Swift’s dancers, including Kameron Saunders, who is the brother of Kelce’s former Chiefs teammate Khalen Saunders, and explained how the dancers are trying to bring Swift back to life during the new “Department of Tortured Poets” from his show. .
“[They’re] trying to bring her back to life, prepare her to perform the rest of the show, so to speak – knowing that she can do it with a broken heart, right?” he added, the last part being a reference to lyrics from Swift’s song “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.”
Jason Kelce added that this song might be his “favorite.”
“It’s a fun, playful part of the show,” Travis Kelce said. “It was the perfect area, or the perfect time, for me to go there – just be a ham and have fun.”
He added that he had a lot of fun and got to “do” one of his favorite moves, which was inspired by Jim Carrey’s character moves in “Dumb and Dumber.”
“And then I made sure to play with Tay and get the makeup right,” he said.
He said it was “an honor” to be on stage with Swift and her team of dancers and again shouted out Kam and how he won two Super Bowl titles with his brother, whom he also described as one of his “all-time” . favorite teammates.
Travis Kelce wasn’t too nervous about messing up during his appearance and said, “You can’t mess up when Taylor’s on stage.” However, there was “one thing” he was hesitant about.
After taking the stage, he uploaded Swift to a red sofa and pretended to prepare the singer to continue her performance.
“Listen, the only thing I told myself was, ‘Don’t drop the baby. Don’t drop it, don’t drop Taylor on the way to this damn couch. The golden rule was, ‘Don’t let Taylor take you to the couch,'” he recalled.
During his time on stage, Travis Kelce also did a heel click dance move.
“It’s about time my heel click paid off,” he said. “I’ve been doing this since I was a little kid.”
Swift recognized Kelce’s appearance during the “Eras Tour” in a social media post on June 24.
“I’m still swooning over @killatrav’s Eras Tour debut ,” she wrote, adding that she “will never forget” those London shows. The singer performed for three nights in June at Wembley Stadium and will return to five more shows in August.
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