Candiace Dillard-Bassett is calling out her Traitors costar Donna Kelce.
“Mama D! Mama Donna is the sweetest,” Dillard-Bassett, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea “VRT Awards” 2025 at City Winery in New York City on Wednesday, September 17. “She’s America’s mom, and she was the castle mom for all of us.”
Dillard-Bassett will appear in the upcoming season 4 of Peacock’s The Traitors alongside Kelce, 72, and a slate of other reality stars, comedians and athletes. The season was filmed in June at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands. It does not yet have a premiere date but is expected to arrive in early 2026.
Dillard-Bassett told Us that Kelce owes her “some cookies and some [Kansas City Chiefs] tickets.” However, the mom of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce has been difficult to get in touch with.
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“Mama Donna, if you hear this — she’s hard to get to. Her Instagram page is not open. So, Mama Donna, I’m paging you. I need my cookies and my Chiefs tickets,” Dillard-Bassett continued.
The Real Housewives of Potomac alum also offered her congratulations to Donna and Travis, 35, who announced his engagement to Taylor Swift last month. Dillard-Bassett joked that “maybe a wedding invitation” from Donna would be “nice” too.
Travis and Swift, also 35, shared their engagement news via Instagram on August 26 after two years of dating.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the pop star captioned a joint post featuring photos from the stunning garden proposal.
One photo showed Travis smiling up at Swift while down on one knee. In another snap, the couple stared lovingly into each other’s eyes. A third photo offered a glimpse at Swift’s old mine brilliant cut ring designed by Kindred Lubeck at Artifex Fine Jewelry.
One day after the announcement, Donna appeared to subtly celebrate her son’s impending nuptials by changing her Facebook cover photo to composite images of Travis and Swift when they were both children.
Meanwhile, Travis’ dad, Ed Kelce, told local ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland that the NFL star and his fiancée FaceTimed him and Donna, as well as Taylor’s parents, Scott and Andrea Swift, right after the engagement “to make sure everybody knew.”
“So, to see them together is great,” he added. “I was at … a [Philadelphia] Eagles practice [that] … had 60,000 people at a public practice two weeks ago on a Sunday night. As soon as I saw the FaceTime, I saw it was Travis, and then I saw Taylor there with him, I knew what they were going to say, and they, you know, let us know.”
Now that Travis and Taylor are officially engaged, they can start planning the wedding — which Travis recently joked is easier than football.
“That’s the next step. That one’s gonna be easy, I just gotta figure out winning football games first,” he said during Wednesday’s episode of his and Jason’s “New Heights” podcast.
Travis also teased their first wedding detail, adding, “I think we’re live music kind of people.”
