Travis Kelce knows Taylor Swift’s “Punk’d” experience all too well.
The NFL player told “New Heights” podcast guest Andrew Santino Wednesday that he watched the MTV prank show and is familiar with the comedian’s epic prank on his now-girlfriend.
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Kelce talked about the 2012 prank with “New Heights” guest Andrew Santino
He “bought” that his now-girlfriend believed she had ruined a wedding.
Santino, 40, went on to describe the 2012 episode anyway, explaining that the Grammy winner, now 34, believed she had accidentally set off a firework of Justin Bieber’s that destroyed a boat.
“There was a wedding party [on board],” the actor recalled.
“I was the groom, and we were dinghy-ed to shore with our boat on fire, and we blamed her for ruining our wedding.”
Kelce, also 34, cracked up as Santino relived the prank and said he has “got to ask Tay about that.”
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end noted, “I’ll see if she was trying to sell it or not. When I saw it, I bought it.”
Swift thought she set off a firework that destroyed a boat.
She later said she was “traumatized” by the experience.
Santino insisted that he “know[s] she bought it,” calling the prank “the perfect bit that worked.”
He added, “Some of the bits were so wild they didn’t work. But hers was specifically great because there were so many pieces that came together. They don’t always come together like that.”
At the time, Swift told CMT Insider that she was “absolutely traumatized and terrifieԀ” by the experience.
The pop star didn’t believe she had it in her to prank Bieber back.
Kelce wants to “ask” Swift about the throwback episode.
As for whether she planned to get Bieber, now 30, back for taking part in the prank, the “Fortnight” singer clarified she was not “really that girl.”
She told the outlet, “He’s too smart. I’d never be able to punk him. Like, he’d figure it out, then turn the tables on me, and then it would be Justin 2, Taylor 0.”
Santino brought up the viral moment in a September 2023 episode of his own podcast, “Whiskey Ginger,” telling listeners how “proud” he felt about pulling it off.
The athlete clarified that he has seen the viral footage.
He and the Grammy winner began dating last year.
Kelce did not address her latest album release on his podcast.
Swift’s 11th album was released last week, and fans had been hoping the Suρer Bowl champion would respond. However, neither Kelce nor he discussed Swift in any other way during Wednesday’s show.
Two songs from “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” “So High School” and “The Alchemy,” are said to have been inspired by Kelce.
Fans also think that Swift makes fun of her ex-partners Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy on a number of songs, and she also makes fun of her longstanding rival Kim Kardashian in the not-so-subtle song “thanK you aIMee.”