Where in the world is Travis Kelce? Somewhere in Europe with Taylor Swift, Paris or Stockholm or…somewhere in between.
In the latest episode of Kelce’s New Heights podcast published Wednesday, which he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce, Travis wouldn’t—and, frankly, maybe actually couldn’t—share where he was recording from. When asked where he was, Travis responded, “I can neither disclose that information nor do I know. I can give you a continent: I’m in Europe.”
As Jason said later in the episode, “It’s very easy to keep tabs on Travis now. It’s hard to be inconspicuous these days when you’re Travis Kelce.” Indeed, the entire Swift-interested world saw Travis dancing in the stands during Swift’s Sunday night show in Paris, her fourth and final concert of her run in the city, complete with shoutouts to her NFL tight end boyfriend, from dance moves mimicking his own while singing a song about him (“So High School”) to a new costume in Kansas City Chiefs colors, and kisses blown to him in the stands. (Relatedly, Swift is now the one wearing short skirts and Travis is in the bleachers, for those tracking their progress on the “You Belong With Me” unified scale.)
"It was fun, it was a blast,” Travis said of his jaunt to the city of lights. “I had a blast at Tay's show. Her new rendition of the Eras Tour, I suggest everyone go see it. It has her new Tortured Poets Department, a few songs, a handful of those songs in the new show, which means there's a new segment and new lights and new, like, dancing and new everything to the fucking show, so. I suggest everybody get out there and see it, it was absolutely unbelievable, I enjoyed every bit of it.”
Those bits include dancing with Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid, too, noted pals and couplecation companions of Swift and Kelce’s. Cooper even got the nickname treatment from Travis, several times over.
“I got to see Gigi and Bradley, Bradley Cooper, man, BC, B. Coop,” he said. “We were all in the suite having a blast. They’re amazing.”
This is Travis’s fifth visit to the Eras Tour: First, in July 2023, which feels shockingly recent given all that’s happened since then, he stood in the crowd in his home stadium in Kansas City, hoping to give Swift his number the old-fashioned way (on a friendship bracelet, obviously). Fast-forward, and he’s now also vibed to his now-girlfriend’s shows in Buenos Aires, Sydney, Singapore, and now Paris.
“I don’t know if they’re getting better, or if I just keep forgetting how they are,” he said of Swift’s revamped show in Paris. “It was electric in there. And I’ll tell you what. Kansas City showed out, Argentina was unbelievable. Australia, they party with the best of them and celebrate with the best of them, those three were unbelievable. Singapore was so unique and so fun, and then Paris, just, it was on a whole ‘nother level, man. I’m happy for everybody that’s in the Eras Tour that’s performing, from the dancers to the band and obviously Taylor, that it just looks like they’re having so much fun up there. They’re absolutely killing it and they’re putting on a show that you won’t get anywhere else.”
All of his enthusiasm and support for Swift, however, couldn’t prevent Travis from being on the receiving end of some brotherly roasting from Jason, who accused him of being “caught pulling an Ed Kelce” and taking video at the show with his phone’s flash on, as one’s aging father might.
“I was doing what?” Travis asked. “Oh, you know, the settings on the camera, if it’s dark it’s going to automatically put the flash on. I don’t understand. I was just trying to get some good video, some good memories, I don’t give a damn. Did I get clowned for that? Sorry.”
Swift’s next stop on the Eras Tour is in Stockholm, Sweden, though even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who made a surprise cameo in Jason’s recording session in New York, where he’s preparing for his next chapter as part of ESPN’s Monday Night Football team, couldn’t get Travis to say whether he’d be there too. Goodell ribbed Travis about the videos of him dancing, then asked if he’s “gonna be back sometime this spring.”
“I’m gonna be dancing around, I’m all around the world this off-season,” Travis returned in a non-answer to his great-great-grandboss. “It’ll be nice, it’s like my yin to my yang, football. It keeps me locked in Kansas City during the season and I just gotta fly around and have some fun in the offseason.”
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