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Travis Kelce To Travel With Taylor Swift During Eras Tour International Leg

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A new report suggests that Travis Kelce will be jetsetting for a good part of the NFL offseason. According to Entertainment Tonight, Kelce will join girlfriend Taylor Swift on the international leg of her Eras Tour next year. “Travis and Taylor are all in… [They] are very serious about their careers, and the two bond over that and want to show support for each other whenever they can,” a source told the outlet. Furthermore, the source claims Kelce will travel with Swift to Brazil for her concerts from November 17-19. However, that feels unlikely given that Kelce has a marquee matchup against the Eagles on November 20.

However, it’s definitely fair to assume that his plans include a majority of next year’s tour dates. Swift kicks things off in Japan in February. Depending on how the Chiefs do this year, Kelce will be unlikely to attend as the Tokyo concerts coincide with the days in the run-up to the Super Bowl. However, the rest of the dates between late February and the start of Chiefs training camp in August should be wide open for Kelce to attend. That run of shows sees Swift tour both Asia and Europe.

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Kelce And Swift Swing By SNL

This past weekend, Kelce and Swift didn’t go as far afield as Asia, they did swing up to New York this past weekend. After dining at Nobu, the couple made some surprise cameos on SNL. The episode was hosted by Pete Davidson and featured Ice Spice as the musical guest. Swift’s appearance came during the musical guest segment when she appeared to introduce the performance by Ice Spice and Rema.

Meanwhile, Kelce made an appearance during a skit about his relationship with Swift. Appearing as himself, the skit was themed around an NFL broadcast trying not to talk about Taylor Swift. The episode was the first for the show since the end of the historic writer’s strike last month. Davidson served as host, fulfilling the gig that was canceled in May just after the writer’s strike began. Meanwhile, Ice Spice teamed up with Rema to perform their hit “Pretty Girl”. Overall, it was a fairly strong return for the show, which also commented on other pop culture moments such as Deion Sanders.

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Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” Film Expecting $100M Opening, Taylor Lautner Does Flips At Screening

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Taylor Swift premiered her new concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour yesterday, and it’s already on its way to breaking records. The success of the hitmaker’s groundbreaking tour continues, carrying over to the big screen and bringing in $39 million Friday (October 13). AMC Theatres’ estimates suggest it could have the biggest October opening in North America, passing Joker‘s $96.2 million.

“The significance of this weekend’s performance of the Taylor Swift concert film cannot be overstated, and given its outlier status and totally unique path to the multiplex is made all the more impressive and unexpected that lands in the wake of Barbenheimer big screen phenomenon,” media analyst Paul Dergarabedian told The Hollywood Reporter. “It proves once again that the movie theater has become a revenue-generating platform that is unrivaled, even among the ubiquitous and rightfully popular streaming services whose overall impact pales by in comparison to the big screen experience.”

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Taylor Swift Could Break Records With New Tour Film

So far, it seems as though fans are loving the film. It’s currently boasting perfect scores on both Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore. Swift hosted the world premiere of the film at The Grove in Los Angeles earlier this week, sharing some heartfelt words with fans. “I’ve always had fun doing this. I can’t believe I get to do music as a career. That’s cr*zy,” Swift expressed. “I’ve always had so much fun doing it. I’ve never had this much fun in my life as I have had on The Eras Tour. It is far and away just the most electric experience of my life.”

The feat’s so major that it’s even got Taylor Lautner doing backflips. Swift’s ex showed off some of his moves at a recent screening of her film, impressing fans who filmed and cheered him on. It’s no secret that the actor is a major supporter of The Eras Tour, popping out for various dates in recent months. He even made a surprise appearance onstage at her Kansas stop in July, again, flipping his way onto the stage.

Taylor Lautner Impresses Fans With Backflips

Do you plan to check out The Eras Tour concert film? What do you think of Taylor Lautner’s backflip? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more news.

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Beyonce Shows Up For Taylor Swift’s Concert Film Premiere

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Beyonce and Taylor Swift have had a sort of silent rivalry over the past few months. They’ve both been hitting numerous North American stops on their respective tours. The “Eras” and Renaissance tours have worked in tandem with Drake’s “It’s All A Blur” tour to give fans plenty of major shows to enjoy all summer long. Now Bey and Taylor’s tours have wrapped up and they both made the same move in the way of their conclusions.

Each of the superstars will be releasing a concert film recapping moments from their mega-tours. The announcement and release of Taylor’s movie came first and the premiere of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour took place last night. Despite quietly competing on tour this year, Bey and Taylor once again proved that there is nothing but love between them. Queen B herself showed up for the film’s premiere and pictures of her and Taylor are making the rounds online. Swift herself shared a picture of the two together with a caption that praised Bey. “I’m so glad I’ll never know what my life would’ve been like without @beyonce’s influence” she begins her caption. Check out the entire post below.

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Beyonce Attends Taylor Swift’s Concert Film Premiere

In the comments of the post there’s even more love for Bey. “All your faves look up to Beyoncé… the end,” one of the top comments on the post reads. That sentiment runs throughout the comment section where fans agree that Bey’s influence runs deep and even the biggest celebrities consider themselves fans of the music legend.

A few days ago Beyonce made another post-Renaissance tour move. She announced the newest Ivy Park line, her fashion brand’s last collaboration with Adidas. Not a whole lot is known about it yet, but it’s expected to arrive very soon. What do you think of Beyonce in attendance at the premiere for Taylor Swift’s concert film? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Taylor Swift, Like Everybody Else, Was Blown Away By Beyoncé’s Surprise Appearance At The ‘Eras Tour’ Movie Premiere

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The two most impactful touring musicians of 2023, without question, are Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. It’s been a big deal when either of them has done pretty much anything this year, so it was certainly momentous when their paths crossed last night (October 11): Beyoncé made a surprise appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of Swift’s The Eras Tour concert film.

They posed for red-carpet photos together and Swift later shared a video of her and Beyoncé posing in theater seats. Her caption paid tribute to Bey and expressed gratitude for her showing up: “I’m so glad I’ll never know what my life would’ve been like without @beyonce’s influence. The way she’s taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms. Her generosity of spirit. Her resilience and versatility. She’s been a guiding light throughout my career and the fact that she showed up tonight was like an actual fairytale.”

Per The New York Times‘ Kyle Buchanan, the two apparently had dinner together before the event, too.

Earlier in the day, Swift shared a post before the premiere, writing, “I can’t thank you enough for wanting to see this film that so vividly captures my favorite adventure I’ve ever been a part of: The Eras Tour. And the best part is, it’s an adventure we’re still on together. Getting in the car now…”

Check out our review of the Eras Tour film here.

Taylor Swift Has Been At The Center Of Pop Culture Like Never Before This Week

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Pop stars are rarely at their cultural peak nearly two decades into their career. Take Justin Timberlake, for instance. He put out the quickly forgotten Man of the Woods 16 years after his solo debut (hence the NSYNC reunion). But Taylor Swift, who released her first album 17 years ago, has never been more popular. Especially this week. She’s been a one-woman monoculture, a “did you see what Taylor did/wore/ate?” conversation starter among co-workers who otherwise have nothing else to talk about.

Let’s recap her dominance over all aspects of pop culture, from music to television to film to celebrity gossip to sports.

-Swift, who frequently racks up more streams than anyone, became the only artist to have five albums with over six billion streams on Spotify. She’s also the only female artist in Spotify history to reach 100 million monthly listeners.

-Chart Masters has Swift passing Bad Bunny to become the second most-streamed artist of all-time on Spotify behind only Drake. (This is a fascinating list: would you have guessed Coldplay is in the top 20? And can you name the only artist in the top 25 without a single stream coming from a song where they’re the featured artist? Here’s a hint: she’s a Swiftie.)

–Midnights continued to be the best-selling album of 2023, even though it came out in 2022.

–Swift’s appearance at the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Chicago Bears game to root for Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was a huge ratings boost. It was the week’s most-watched telecast on any network with 24.3 million viewers; the game did particularly well among female viewers ages 12 to 49. Normally ratings drop when a game is a blowout (the Chiefs won 41-10), but not here.

-The figures from Roku are staggering, too: the household reach for the game grew from 2.8 million to 4.4 million, an increase of 59 percent, with the largest demo increase (a whopping 63 percent) coming from women, ages 18-49.

-If Swift cheers, they will come (and buy): Travis Kelce jersey sales jumped 400 percent following the game. If Taylor wants to share this article on social media, that would be nice. I could use the clicks.

-The Chiefs play the New York Jets on Sunday. Swift is expected to be in attendance. If you don’t already have tickets, you might be out of luck: according to numbers provided by StubHub, there was a 175 percent increase in sales in the three days after her appearance, while nearly 20 percent of all tickets sold for the matchup have been purchased since Sunday night.

-The governor of California called Swift and Kelce dating rumors a bigger deal than the GOP debate, which isn’t great for the country, but it makes for tremendous content.

-The Empire State Building, one of the most iconic landmarks in the greatest city in da world (it’s been waiting for you), changed its color because she ate stadium food one time.

-Speaking of, “ketchup and seemingly ranch” took over the internet. It started with a tweet from fan account @tswifterastour — “Taylor Swift was eating a piece of chicken with ketchup and seemingly ranch!” — and became a phenomenon. Heinz is selling a limited-time “Seemingly Ranch” bottle, Primal Kitchen is doing the same (with bonus friendship bracelets), and brand after brand made their own “seemingly ranch”-inspired jokes.

-This is just a good tweet:

-This happened earlier this month, but it’s still worth mentioning: Swift was the star of the MTV VMAs 2023 (which had its best ratings in three years among the all-important 18-49 demo), even though she didn’t perform. She danced and drank and was the life of the party. MTV wisely kept a camera on her all night, and let the fan accounts take it from there.

-Right-wing media is freaking out over everything she does.

–Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, a concert film about her Ticketmaster-breaking tour, will be released in 100 countries worldwide. AMC projects that more than 7,500 theaters will play the movie. No wonder it’s on pace for a $100 million opening weekend. That would immediately make it the highest-grossing concert film of all time, besting Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

–The Eras Tour movie is getting a glitzy Los Angeles premiere on October 11th. It’s unknown at this time if Swift will be in attendance, but if she is, something tells me you’ll hear about the “massive fan clusterf*ck” on social media.

This would be a great year for most artists. Swift did it in a few days, all without releasing any new music. Although, oh yeah, the next Taylor’s Version, 1989 (TV), comes out next month. She’ll also resume the Eras Tour in November to boost some local economies.

Swift isn’t raising sneaker sales or possibly dating a football player or helping save movie theaters or lending her home to a friend while they’re going through a very public divorce for attention. There’s a reason she rarely gives interviews anymore: the attention finds her.

Taylor Swift Jokes About Famous Kanye West Interruption At Concert

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There are still so many pop cultural ties dating back to a viral moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs. When Kanye West took the stage to grab the mic from Taylor Swift and claim that Beyonce had “the best music video of all time,” he was widely criticized. Many fans credit his resulting vanish from the spotlight for the creation of his beloved 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The drama also emerged again a few years later when Kanye mentioned Taylor directly on The Life Of Pablo. The resulting beef led to Taylor’s much maligned Reputation era, though many people’s perspective on the beef has shifted in the wake of Kanye’s fall from grace.

Now, Taylor Swift is showing that she’s more than capable of laughing at the event in retrospect. During a recent show in Mexico she was interrupted from performing by the massive crowd of fans cheering her name. “People chanting your name, it’s really the only way to be interrupted, and I would know,” she told the crowd. A clip of the interaction quickly began making the rounds online as fans loved her ability to find humor in the situation. Check out the video below.

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Taylor Swift Has A Great Response To Fan Chanting

Taylor Swift’s eras tour has been a massive success all year. Celebrities like Stephen A. Smith, Flavor Flav, and even Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce have found themselves in attendance. She also shared a memorable moment with Kobe Bryant’s daughter Bianka Bryant. Swift gifted her a special “22” hat and gave her a hug on-stage during a show in LA.

Earlier this year Taylor Swift surprised fans by tapping Ice Spice for a remix of her song “Karma.” The track instantly became a hit and is still nestled in the top 20 of the Hot 100. What do you think of Taylor’s joke about Kanye’s famous on-stage interruption? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Stephen A. Smith Calls Taylor Swift “The Best Concert” Of His Life

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Taylor Swift is deep into her Eras Tour. She’s currently preparing for four shows in Mexico City before she closes out the year with shows this November in South America, namely Brazil and Argentina. It’s been a massively successful tour and earned Swift major acclaim. And of course, every now and then we see a handful of amusing headlines from her various tour stops. This is nothing out of the ordinary, especially with

Now a lot of people have professed themselves to be Swifties during this tour. Just about every city she has been to has put on some big show, such as renaming themselves or making Swift the temporary mayor. Meanwhile, she had earned the love of athletes like Mac Jones and Aaron Rodgers. But what about Stephen A. Smith? The often stoic ESPN broadcaster recently revealed that he dropped around $20,000 on ten tickets for his daughters and their friends. And Smith talked about the experience on a recent edition of The Stephen A. Smith Show.

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Smith Gives Swift Some Major Props

“That’s the best concert I’ve ever been to in my life,” Smith said. “Excuse my language, but that shit was off the chain. Taylor Swift brought the damn house down. I was jamming to Taylor Swift. She was sensational. I’d pay to see her again. Seriously, I’m not joking. She was a superstar that night. That girl is special.” That’s very high praise from the often hard-to-please Smith.

After the concerts in Mexico and South America, Swift shuts up shop for the winter. She returns to the concert circuit in February 2024 with an Asian leg across Japan, Australia, and Singapore. She then heads to Europe between May and August. Finally, she concludes the whole tour with more shows in the US and Canada. The tour concludes with six shows in the Rogers Center in Toronto. Have you been to the Eras Tour? Do you agree with Smith about how good it was? Let us know in the comments.

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Flavor Flav Leveled Up His Swiftie Game By Meeting Taylor Swift’s Parents At ‘The Eras Tour’ In Los Angeles

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There’s no shame in Flavor Flav’s Swiftie game. He used to be synonymous with wearing a massive clock chain, but now he’s just as likely — if not more likely — to rock stacks of friendship bracelets associated with Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. In March, the rap and pop culture icon fulfilled his wish of meeting Swift at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards. He also attended Swift’s Eras stops in June at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. He proclaimed online, “In my Red (Taylor’s Version) era and makin new friends.”

Swift is finishing out her US leg of The Eras Tour with six shows at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, finishing on Wednesday, August 9. It won’t be the finale it was expected to be because Swift announced a smaller 2024 North American leg last week, but it has still felt like a culmination of a monstrous 2023 run. The LA shows have welcomed the likes of Channing Tatum and the Bryant family in the audience. Of course, Flav was in on the celebration.

Flav posted a few Instagram videos from the evening, including one in which he hugged Andrea Swift and Scott Swift and another labeled his “Eras Outfit Fit Check” that incorporated Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and Midnights.

“FLAVOR FLAV::: I’m honored to meet Taylor Swift’s Mom and Dad plus Papa Swift gave me the guitar picks to hand out!!! COME FIND ME #TaylorSwift,” Flav wrote in the caption.

See Flav’s posts below.

Flavor Flav Shows Up At Taylor Swift Concert And Hugs Her Parents

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It seems like absolutely everyone wants to get their chance to see Taylor Swift on the “Eras Tour.” Just last week Swift herself shared a precious moment with Kobe Bryant’s daughter. During his lifetime Kobe was outspoken in his support of Taylor and she often returned the favor. Last month NFL superstar Travis Kelce turned up to one of Swift’s shows and took to social media to share how big of a fan he is. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end even tried to give Taylor his number, to no avail.

Someone else you might not expect to be a Swiftie is Flavor Flav. The rap legend doesn’t necessarily seem like the type to be into Taylor’s music but he’s been vocal about his love for her for a while. Back in June he showed up at a stop on the tour in Detroit and got plenty of attention for being there. On Monday, he was once again in the crowd for another one of Taylor’s shows, this time at So-Fi stadium. According to TMZ, he became somewhat of an ambassador for Swifties passing out guitar picks, bracelets, and buttons to the crowd. Video also popped up of Flav meeting Taylor’s parents Scott and Andrea which can be seen below.

Flavor Flav Is A Swiftie

Earlier this year Flav attended the iHeartRadio Music Awards. In further proof of his Taylor Swift fandom he donned a shirt with her lyrics on it. Flavor Flav recently celebrated a number of sobriety milestones. His three years sober from alcohol and cigarettes also happens to align with an incredible 15 years sober from drugs. Flav has often spoke in detail about his battles with various substances and journey to sobriety.

Earlier this year Flavor Flav made a notable donation to Harvard. During a visit to the school, he gifted them his iconic clock chain. He’s taken the opportunity to cash in on his iconic chain often before officially gifting it. What do you think of Flavor Flav showing up to another Taylor Swift concert? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Kim Kardashian Should Be “Dragged To Jail” If She Attends Taylor Swift’s Tour, Dave Portnoy Says

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During a recent interview with Page Six, Dave Portnoy weighed in on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. The BFFs podcast host also shared his thoughts on some beef between Kim Kardashian and her ex-husband Kanye West. According to Portnoy, Swift shouldn’t let Kim attend her tour, and should send her to jail if she even tries. “If I were Taylor, I would have security waiting at the entrance and I would throw handcuffs on her and drag her to jail,” he told the outlet. “It would surprise me if she didn’t [attend]. That would be a very Kim move.”

“A lot of people don’t actually know the story but they edited her phone call and called her a liar,” he explained. “The phone call came out a few years later and it backed up everything that Taylor Swift said, so that was kind of what started me on the Swiftie path.“ Portnoy continued, “When everyone was crucifying her I was like, ‘This is not right,’ so now I’ve just grown to be a huge fan.” Famously, Kanye crashed Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009. She won an award for Best Female Video, but Ye insisted the award should have gone to Beyonce. Things between them have been weird ever since.

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Taylor Swift’s Beef With Kim And Kanye

Kim Kardashian Should Be "Dragged To Jail" If She Attends Taylor Swift's Tour, Dave Portnoy Says
Kanye West takes the microphone from Taylor Swift and speaks onstage during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on September 13, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Kanye later issued an apology, retracted it, and then the duo randomly appeared to be on good terms again. Kanye even claimed in 2015 that they’d be coming out with a collab. In 2016, however, Kanye released “Famous,” which includes a questionable line about Swift. “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b*tch famous,” he says in the song. He claimed to have gotten approval from Swift for the lyric, but her team denies this.

After various digs at each other, Kim got involved in 2016. She claimed that they had a recording of Swift agreeing to the line, which she later released. Swift released the unedited recording in 2020, revealing that she never agreed to Ye referring to her as “that b*tch.” Kim responded, calling Swift’s release of the recording “self-serving.”

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