Travis Kelce Was An A-Lister, Even Before T Swift (Rebroadcast)
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Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Travis Kelce might be the most talked-about man in all of American pop culture right now. But his rise from football star to A-List celebrity actually began months before he began courting Taylor Swift with a friendship bracelet. Tom Kludt spent time with Kelce earlier this year and wrote an in-depth profile of him for Vanity Fair, and Tom joined us to discuss Kelce's remarkable ascent, the origins of his off-field ambitions, and just how bright his star could become. (This episode originally aired in July.)
Guest: Tom Kludt, Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair
Read Tom's profile of Travis Kelce here
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| 0:33.0 | I don't know if you guys |
| 0:40.0 | I don't know if you guys have heard or not |
| 0:42.0 | but Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey have been dating |
| 0:44.7 | The latest there is that Kelsey told his big brother Jason on their new Heights podcast that he would not be having Thanksgiving with Taylor |
| 0:51.1 | saying he would be quote feasting on KFC because I won't have |
| 0:54.9 | anybody here. Taylor is of course currently on the second leg of her Erra's tour in |
| 0:59.7 | South America. But anyway all of this is to say that Travis Kelsey has become perhaps the |
| 1:05.0 | most talked about man in all of American pop culture over the past few months, as |
| 1:08.9 | everyone knows. And so today, while our team is off for Thanksgiving break, we're replaying an episode that first aired this summer. |
| 1:16.0 | I spoke with Tom Clute, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, about Travis Kelsey's rise from Star Athlete to A Lister, which began months before he started dating |
| 1:25.9 | Taylor Swift. |
| 1:26.9 | Okay, here is that very fun episode. Tom Clut, |
| 1:35.0 | Clute, welcome to the lead. |
| 1:37.0 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:38.0 | So, Tom, you recently wrote this really wonderful profile of Travis Kelsey for Vanity Fair. That meant spending time |
| 1:44.3 | with him in Los Angeles and speaking with a lot of people who know him very well. |
| 1:47.4 | Let me just start with this. How would you describe the essence of Travis |
| 1:52.2 | Kelsey the man. |
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