Today is the day Travis Kelce is allegedly marrying Taylor Swift – and just to make it even more of a big deal, he has released a new interview with an extremely famous Brit. The latest guest on his New Heights podcast, which he hosts with brother Jason Kelce, is none other than Prince William.
As Madison Square Garden prepares to host what is believed to be one of the biggest showbiz wedding parties in American history, the NFL star certainly couldn't have picked a better day to release it.
The Prince of Wales doesn't discuss the (again, alleged) nuptials, but appeared on the show remotely for a near-thirty-minute chat about sport, where he left the hosts in hysterics by claiming that his father, King Charles, "hates football".
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Asked if it was his dad who got him interested in the sport, he quipped: "Absolutely not, my father hates football."
"My family haven't got a particularly long history with football, there are a few of us who support teams," he added. "My football love came from friends taking me to my first match.
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"At school growing up, you can't avoid the football chat, it's everywhere. Some childhood friends of mine took me to my first game."
He added: "I saw Gareth Southgate the other day, just this week, and he reminded me that the first match I saw, he was playing in it. The previous England manager used to play for Aston Villa at club level. And the first game he was a defender, playing in a match that I watched in 2000, which was Aston Villa vs Bolton."
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William is, like Tom Hanks, an Aston Villa supporter, and he also said on the podcast that he would "definitely" travel Stateside if England make the final of the FIFA World Cup.
Meanwhile, though there has been no official confirmation that Travis is marrying Taylor Swift today, several of their celebrity friends have been spotted in New York – including Dua Lipa, Graham Norton and Jack Antonoff.
The couple, who got engaged last year, are believed to have donated $26 million in total to a number of charities across the US.
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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro, Attitude, Huffington Post, The Mirror, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online, specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who'll listen.
