Sure, Travis Kelce is engaged to Taylor Swift, one the most famous women in the world, but he still gets starstruck from time to time.
During her Wednesday, October 8, appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Swift — sporting a floral corset set by Wiederhoeft, a jeweled collar necklace and flowing Folkore hair — discussed what happened when Kelce attended a star-studded Eras Tour show in London circa June 2024.
“The most fun thing about having Travis out on tour is, like, he would go to the tents and, like, give me the tea afterward,” she told host Seth Meyers, recalling, “We’d do the debrief afterward in the car.”
Ahead of the concert, “I was like, ‘I got to let you know, your favorite director is in the tent,’” Swift, 35, recalled. “He loves Greta Gerwig. He loves her movies.”
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Swift explained, “He loves her range, you know what I mean? Like, being able to do this many different types of films. It’s incredible. Genre-hopping. It’s really impressive. And so, he was like, ‘Oh, my God, I really want to tell her how funny I thought Barbie was.’ And I’m like, ‘You absolutely should. She’s the sweetest, giggliest person to tell that you like their work. You’re gonna love her.’”
She continued: “And so, the show happens. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, everyone’s having the best time.’ And afterward, you know, he gets in the car. He has had as many shots as everyone else has had. And he’s like, ‘This was the most fun tent. Everybody was amazing. Like, Tom Cruise is going crazy. Like, Liam [Hemsworth] is just as fun as Chris [Hemsworth]. And Liam’s fiancée Gabriella [Brooks] is so cool. And Ashton [Kutcher] was there. And Mila [Kunis], like, oh my God, Hugh Grant was there, and I get to tell him how much I love his movies. And he was so cool. Everyone was amazing!’”
“Oh, my God, that’s awesome,” Swift replied. “Like, you didn’t mention Greta. Did you meet Greta?”
“Yeah — I, um, I did,” he said. “I think I like — I think I told an annoying joke that she’s heard too many times.”
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“OK, well what did you say?” she asked.
“Well, I walked up to her and I was like, ‘I love Barbie. I’m just Ken, too,’” he said. “And then I pointed to you.”
“That’s such a solid joke,” Swift recalled responding. “She would have loved that.”
“Well, she was really polite about it,” Kelce, 36, said. “Like, she smiled politely, but she didn’t say anything.”
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Swift thought that seemed “very out of character” for Gerwig, then suggested that perhaps the director “had heard that joke too many times.”
Kelce then told Swift that Gerwig had been “talking to Hugh Grant all night. so I think they might be doing a movie together. Like, they were really, really close,” said the athlete, who observed that Gerwig and Grant were “dancing all night” and “had all these inside jokes. They kind of seem like they’re, like, soulmates.”
Swift was surprised by Kelce’s report.
“I was like, ‘The tea is crazy tonight, Travis,’” she said.
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Scrolling her phone, Swift then saw that “all over the internet is just videos of Travis dancing with Greta, all night like they’re best friends. And I’m like, ‘Travis, here’s a video of you with Greta. It feels like she thought the joke was funny.’ He goes, ‘Oh, that’s not Greta.’”
Putting two and two together, Swift said, “Is there any chance at all, baby, that you complimented Hugh Grant’s wife, Anna [Eberstein], on her movie Barbie, said, ‘I’m just Ken too,’ and she politely nodded because she didn’t have the heart to tell you she didn’t direct it. And is there any chance that the people that look like soulmates are Hugh Grant and his soulmate?’”
Meyers, 51, had announced in September that Swift would be the only guest during Wednesday’s episode. In the Instagram video announcing her appearance, the host wore an orange The Life of a Showgirl-themed cardigan and drank from a mint green coffee mug with the orange inscription, “TAY/kover 10.08.25.”
The caption read, “Sipping coffee like you’re on a late night show,” which is a lyric from Swift’s 2021 song “All Too Well (10 Minute Version).”
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Swift previously stopped by Meyers’ show in 2014 and 2021. She’s been promoting her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, which was released on October 3. She visited The Graham Norton Show that Friday and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday.
In addition to talking about the inspiration behind her new music during her press tour, Swift has been speaking out about her engagement to Kelce for the first time since their August announcement.
“He went all out — 10 out of 10,” she said of Kelce’s proposal on The Graham Norton Show, adding that the NFL player “really crushed it when it came to surprising me.”
“I want to do the album stuff first, and the wedding is what happens after in terms of planning,” she added. “I think it will be fun to plan.”
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During her Tonight Show appearance, Swift revealed that Kelce had her engagement ring “for a really long time before he gave it to me.”
“He’s just my favorite person I’ve ever met — no offense to everyone else,” she said of her fiancé. “But the fact that this is the person that I get to hang out with every day forever … that’s the whole thing of it. You look at [the ring] and you’re like, ‘I get to hang out with him forever,’ and this represents that.”
Swift then confirmed that Kelce proposed after they recorded her “New Heights” episode, divulging that he was unusually anxious ahead of her debut on the podcast.
“I kinda realized that he’s walking around sorta nervous about the podcast, [saying], ‘My heart is racing. … I know how much this means to you. I just really want this to be what you’d hoped it would be.’ Because we’d been talking about doing the podcast and announcing the album,” she recalled. “I’ve never seen this dude nervous. Ever. He’s professionally not a nervous person.”
Swift later realized Kelce was actually nervous about popping the question, sharing, “It was the best possible-case scenario.”
