Swifties have been buzzing since Travis Kelce made his onstage debut throughout girlfriend Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” present in London on June 23, and now, he’s sharing particulars about how his surprise appearance got here to be.
On the July 3 episode of his “New Heights” podcast, which he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight finish revealed he initially considered the concept to be part of Swift onstage at Wembley Stadium.
“It’s very unlike me,” the three-time Super Bowl winner joked. “I don’t love going on stages.”
His brother, who attended Swift’s other London shows with spouse Kylie Kelce, requested who got here up with the concept.
“I initially mentioned it to Tay. I was like, ‘How funny would it be if I just rolled out on one of the bikes during the ‘1989’ (portion of the show),'” Travis Kelce defined.
“She started laughing,” he continued. “She was like, ‘Would you seriously be up for doing something like that?'”
He told her he would “love” to be concerned.
“I’ve seen the show enough — might as well put me to work here,” he recalled.
“Sure enough, she found the perfect, perfect part of the show for me to come in. There was no bike in case I ran into somebody else or hit one of the dancers or anything. It was the safest option,” the youthful Kelce defined.
He additionally shouted out a few of Swift’s dancers, together with Kameron Saunders, who’s the brother of Kelce’s former Chiefs teammate Khalen Saunders, and defined how the dancers try to convey Swift again to life throughout the newer “Tortured Poets Department” section of her show.
“(They’re) trying to bring her back to life, get her ready to perform the rest of the show, so to speak — knowing she can do it with a broken heart, right?” he added, the latter half being a reference to lyrics from Swift’s song “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.”
Jason Kelce added that track could also be his “favorite.”
“It’s such a fun, playful part of the show,” Travis Kelce stated. “It was the perfect area, or perfect time, for me to go up there — just be a ham and have some fun.”
He added he had “an absolute blast” and acquired to “pull out” one of his favourite strikes, which was impressed by Jim Carrey’s character’s strikes in “Dumb and Dumber.”
“And then just made sure I played with Tay and got her makeup right,” he stated.
He stated it was “an honor” simply to be on the stage with Swift and her workforce of dancers and once more shouted out Kam and the way he gained two Super Bowl titles together with his brother, whom he additionally described as one of his “all-time favorite teammates.”
Travis Kelce wasn’t too nervous about messing up throughout his appearance and stated, “You can do no wrong when Taylor’s onstage.” However, there was “one thing” he was hesitant about.
After strolling onstage, he carried Swift to a pink couch and pantomimed getting the singer prepared to proceed her efficiency.
“Listen, the one thing I told myself is: ‘Do not drop the baby. Do not drop this — do not drop Taylor on your way over to this damn couch.’ The golden rule was: ‘Do not drop Taylor getting her over to the couch,'” he recalled.
During his time on the stage, Travis Kelce additionally pulled out a heel-click dance transfer.
“About time my heel-click paid off,” he stated. “I’ve been doing that s— since I was a f—— toddler.”
Swift acknowledged Kelce’s appearance through the “Eras Tour” in a social media post June 24.
“I’m still cracking up/swooning over @killatrav’s Eras Tour debut 🥰,” she wrote, including she’s “never going to forget” these London reveals. The singer carried out for 3 nights in June at Wembley Stadium and can return for five more shows in August.