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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and recently retired former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce addressed meeting the royal family and Jason attending first Taylor Swift concert in London during the latest episode of their New Heights podcast released on Wednesday (June 26).
Travis, who has been dating Swift since last year, acknowledged that his brother and sister-in-law, Kylie, "made it to the Eras Tour and watched Tay absolutely shred it."
“Dude, it was amazing,” Jason said during the podcast recorded on Saturday (June 22), one day after the couple attended their first show of the weekend.
“It was so cool, playing in front of 90,000 at Wembley Stadium," said Travis, who claimed the London crowd was much louder for his girlfriend's concert than the Chiefs' first international game.
“It was insanely impressive,” Jason continued. “There's something, like obviously Taylor's an amazing singer-songwriter, but then to be able to go out there and be a performer at that level for how long she was up there for, like, three and a half hours, four hours?”
The former Super Bowl champion and All-Pro center then revealed that he teared up during Swift's concert.
“The 22 hat? Dude, I've never cried at a f---ing concert and I was literally tearing up watching this little girl's entire … I'm about to tear up right now. It was f---ing so special,” Jason said.
“She got into it, man. It was awesome,” Travis added. “Every single show she does it. And she makes every show unique with the acoustic set.”
“That was my favorite part. It's just her, a guitar, and 90,000 people,” Jason responded. “And she's blending from one song to another ... Like, to be good in front of 9,000 people with just that, I think you have to be amazing. And you have to, one, have great songs and great lyrics, which she obviously has written and made. And then two, be able to perform those seamlessly on the spot, nothing else to hide it, just that was the highlight of the evening for me.”
The brothers also addressed meeting Prince William, his son Prince George and daughter Princess Charlotte, during their weekend in London. Travis, who was seen posing in a photo with Swift and the royal family, called Prince William "the coolest motherf****r" at the 'Eras Tour' concerts.
“They were absolutely a delight to meet,” Travis said. “I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to bow to them, curtsy, just be an American idiot and shake their hands, like, ‘Sup, dude.’ We wanted to be polite.”
Jason said he put his "beer, like 10 feet away" upon seeing the royals, with Travis joking that he had "never seen you give someone that much respect" to his older brother.
“Prince William was fantastic, but the highlight was Princess Charlotte,” Jason said. “She was so f**king adorable."
“Maybe because I have three girls now, [but] she had a fire to her,” he added. “She was asking questions.”
Travis and Taylor went public with their relationship last September when the singer was seen with the tight end's mother, Donna, in a VIP suite at Arrowhead Stadium during the Chiefs' blowout win against the Chicago Bears, the first time she attended one of his games following relationship rumors. The three-time Super Bowl champion famously revealed that he attempted to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number when he attended her concert at Arrowhead Stadium prior to their relationship last summer.
Swift later said that Kelce "very adorably put me on blast" when he acknowledged the situation on his New Heights podcast, which she said "was metal as hell" while being featured as Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' in December 2023.