Taylor Swift is officially in attendance at the Super Bowl.
After weeks of speculation about how the pop star could make it from her show on Saturday in Tokyo back in time to support Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs, she landed in Los Angeles on Saturday and arrived at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas a little over two hours before kick off.
Swift didn’t show up alone: She was joined by several famous friends, including rapper Ice Spice and actress Blake Lively.
The Super Bowl is now the 12th time Swift has attended a Chiefs game this season, and both Kelce and the Chiefs have played better when she was present. She attended her first game in September.
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Swift was at Kelce’s game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on October 1, with a star-studded group as well. Lively joined her for that game along with her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds. Singer/actress Sabrina Carpenter, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner and actor Hugh Jackman were all in the box, in addition to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ wife Brittany and Travis’ mother Donna Kelce.
Swift and Ice Spice, meanwhile, have been spotted at numerous functions together. Swift and Kelce supported the rapper’s performance on Saturday Night Live‘s season premiere in October. Swift and Kelce both made cameos during the premiere.
After arriving on Sunday, Swift made her way to a luxury box, where she met up with Travis’ brother Jason Kelce, a center for the Philadelphia Eagles. She was spotted introducing Jason to Ice Spice.
Swift and Jason Kelce first met at the Chiefs’ Divisional Round matchup against the Buffalo Bills, when Kelce showed up to support his brother (and to participate in the legendary Bills tailgating scene). Kelce’s wife, Kylie, apparently told him to be on his best behavior meeting Swift. Jason responded by chugging beer directly behind Swift when the camera panned to their box, and by leaning shirtless out the window of the suite to cheer whenever Travis scored. He also left the luxury box on multiple occasions to interact with Bills fans below them.
“I don’t think [Kylie] was happy about it to be honest with you,” Jason told Travis on the ensuing episode of their New Heights podcast.
Travis, however, reassured his brother that Taylor “absolutely loved you.”
It remains to be seen how many beers Jason Kelce will consume at the Super Bowl and whether he will make a similar impression on Ice Spice and Lively. Still, as he told his wife after the Bills game, Jason will likely remain unfailingly himself.
“I was like, ‘Kylie, the first day I met you, I was blackout drunk and fell asleep at the bar,'” Jason said on New Heights. “This is part of the charm. This is part of the Jason Kelce charm. I want to make my best first impression. This is my best chance.”
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