‘SNL’ Stars Say Taylor Swift Called Travis Kelce ‘Funny’ Pre-Romance
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce.
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Will Heath/NBCTaylor Swift And Travis Kelce had endless invisible strings tying them together before sparking a romance – including Saturday Night Live Please do not destroy.
“We worked with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce before they dated,” Ben Marshallsaid a third of the writing trio in the latest episode of Mike Birbiglia “Working it out“podcast. ‘And I don’t know [if we should say this]but she actually told us she was looking at his SNL episode and saw him in our video and said, “This guy seems funny.”
Marshall, 28, joked that the trio – which consists of him – John HigginsAnd Martin Herlihy – ‘brought’ the couple ‘together a bit’. He noted this as they considered telling the anecdote during their performance The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in November 2023, they finally decided to call it quits, fearing heat from fans if the romance went south.
“We were like, ‘I think if they break up, we’re going to be blamed somehow for causing this disaster,’” he recalled with a laugh, hosting Birbiglia. “It’s just a precarious situation .People have strong feelings.” (Birbiglia, for his part, has his own connection to Swift when he starred in the music video for her 2022 single “Anti-Hero.”)
Please Don’t Destroy has become a member SNL as writers and cast members in 2021 after their videos went viral on TikTok. Swift collaborated with the trio next door Pete Davidson in November of that year for the musical parody “Three Sad Virgins”, which aired during the season 47 premiere.
“We didn’t think she would do it,” Higgins, 27, told Fallon, 49, of the cameo. “We presented it to her and we were like, ‘It’s called ‘Three Sad Virgins,’ you and Pete are making fun of us.” And she immediately said, ‘Yes.’
Kelce, meanwhile, hosted the NBC sketch comedy series in March 2023, where he played Kurt Lightning, a self-defense coach who wants to help Please Don’t Destroy after they realize they have no respect from their parents. SNL colleagues.
The NFL star’s appearance came six months before he and Swift made their romance public in September 2023. The pair started dating earlier that summer after Kelce admitted he visited her in Kansas City. Eras tour concert in an attempt to gift her a friendship bracelet with his phone number. A month after confirming their relationship, the couple made a joint guest appearance SNL for the season 49 premiere.
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Since then, the duo has taken the world by storm. In recent months, Kelce has taken home his second straight Super Bowl victory with the Chiefs and a WJ. Magazine cover and appeared as the face of the biopharmaceutical company Pfizer. Swift was mentioned in the meantime Time 2023 Person of the Year, has earned her 13th and 14th Grammys, announced her 11th studio album, The department of tortured poetsand started the next leg of her international Eras tour in Singapore and Australia.
Even though his star is on the rise, Kelce has made it clear that he has no plans to retire in the near future. However, he hopes to expand into different areas of the entertainment industry in the future.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to do some of the things outside of sports that I enjoy, like being in front of the camera,” he said during the January press conference. “The SNL things have opened up a new happiness and a new career path for me, but it’s funny to even say that at this point in my career because I think it’s so much further down the road than it is now.
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Kelce added that he has “no reason” to stop playing the game for now. “I love it,” he said. “We are still having success.”
As for the world falling in love with his romance with Swift, Kelce told reporters earlier this month that the couple’s mutual “love of life” is likely to get people’s attention.
“The values we stand for and who we are as people,” he explained. “We love to shine light on others, to shine light around the people who help and support us.”