Longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan Baron Corbin was amazed to join Taylor Swift at her boyfriend’s house Travis Kelcethe rest of match day.
“(Travis and I) are like friends now,” former WWE wrestler Corbin, 40, said on the Thursday, Jan. 23, episode of the “Insight With Chris Van Vliet” podcast, noting that he and Kelce reconnected during a reunion. local charity event, Big Slick KC. “He says, ‘Yo, come to a game. Let me treat you to a game (and) stay in my suite. He said: “I have a suite there. »
Corbin (real name Tom Pestock) eventually had Kelce, 35, accept his offer and invited his uncle and brother to watch a game in 2024.
“So, we went there (and) they took us to the suite, and then (either my uncle or my brother) said, ‘I wonder if Taylor is going to be there,’ and as they say, she (walked) around the room,” Corbin recalled. “My brother freaks out a little bit and she goes up to everyone, gives them a hug (and) gives us a hug like it’s like you’re instantly one. family.”
Swift, 35, and Chiefs tight end Kelce have been dating since the summer of 2023, shortly before she started attending his football games. His presence often sparked a frenzy both at Arrowhead Stadium, away and online.
“It was crazy because I felt like I was in a fishbowl and I wanted to get out of the suite,” Corbin admitted. “It’s just crowds of people taking selfies of Taylor and her existence. I’ve never been around anyone like that. .. It’s a different magnitude. You felt like everyone in the stadium was looking at you because you were standing behind her.
Despite Swiftie’s pandemonium, Corbin still found the pop star “super dope and super humble.”
“(I) had conversations with her,” he recalled Thursday, noting that Swift didn’t have a big crew with her. “She came in with, perhaps, her security guard. But no entourage. These are all of Kelce’s friends from high school and home. They’re all super cool; they’re all humble and no one has an ego, but Taylor is super dope.
After the match, Corbin and his loved ones also received an invitation to Swift and Kelce’s joint Christmas party.
“Travis had a little Christmas party (and) we hung out,” Corbin added. “(She was) super crazy. … She’s just a regular human being (who) is probably the most influential person in the world right now and incredibly talented, she writes all her own stuff. It’s so refreshing to see someone like that.
Swift, who recently attended Kelce’s divisional playoff game on Jan. 19, also spoke candidly about her support for her boyfriend’s NFL accomplishments.
“When you say a relationship is public, that means I get to see him do what he loves, we support each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she said. she declared. TIME in a 2023 profile. “The opposite is that you have to go to extreme lengths to make sure no one knows you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.