Travis Kelce looked back on a tweet about backup dancers after he took the stage with Taylor Swift in London.
Travis Kelce is revisiting a decade-old tweet about wanting "permanent background dancers" in his life -- and he's also adding an addendum to that policy.
In the season 2 finale of Travis and Jason Kelce's New Heights podcast, the brothers got to talking about Travis joining his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, onstage at Wembley Stadium in London, England, during one of her Eras Tour shows. After discussing how they came up with the idea and the do's and don'ts for the surprise performance, Jason conjured up Travis' 2014 tweet after asking him if in a million years did he would ever think he'd be a backup dancer himself.
"Dude, I've always been a fan of dancers. I'm a big fan of backup dancers because they keep things alive. I'm a team guy, too," he responded. "I'm in it for everybody to have a good time here. It's so cool. I've seen the show so many times at this point that I'll find myself in the crowd, down the choreography to some of the [moves] and it's fun, you already know. It's fun to play along, so for them to be up for it and not only that, help me and make me look like a pro, I guess, it was awesome."
Then, the tweet.
"You brought up background dancers and how much they add to the energy and excitement," Jason said. "So, the New Heights team did us a solid and brought out this old tweet from Travis Kelce, which we know that Travis has some gold in his tweet locker.
Travis' Aug. 2014 tweet reads, "I just want to have permanent background dancers to my life... Haha they make singers look so cool."
So, the question remains -- does Travis still want background dancers in his life?
"I mean, 2014, yeah, that was my rookie year. So, yeah," he said laughing. "I'm down for all that. Maybe not every day, but maybe certain situations. Like if I score a touchdown, get some backup dancers ... this has been thought about before. It's electric. You can't deny it, right?"
When he tweeted in 2014, there was no shortage of fans signing up to be Travis' backup dancers. One fan replied to the tweet saying, "go out and get 10 tds in each of the next two years and you could probably hook that up," to which Travis responded with, "are you saying you'd be willing to do it?" Another fan wrote, "when are the auditions?! LOL! :)," to which Travis replied with, "no auditions needed, just sign up! Haha."
For his part, Kelce gushed about moonlighting as a backup dancer at The Eras Tour, and shared on the New Heights podcast that the idea initially started as a joke. Then it all quickly came to fruition.
"I initially mentioned it to Tay. I was like, 'How funny would it be if I just rolled out on one of the bikes during the 1989 era?'" Travis recalled. "She started laughing and was like, 'Would you seriously be up for doing something like that?' And I was like, 'What?! I would love to do that. I've seen the show enough, might as well put me to work here.'"
Travis called the surreal moment "an absolute blast," echoing what a source recently told ET.
"It was so much fun for Taylor and Travis to be on stage together at her show," the source said. "It was definitely a new, defining point in their relationship and they had a blast getting the chance to [share] a personal side of themselves with the world. They are so happy with how everything turned out and loved seeing all the fan reactions."
No question about it, Travis has had an incredibly busy offseason after helping the Kansas City Chiefs win their second straight Super Bowl. From globetrotting to see his girlfriend at the Eras Tour to repping his love for the Tortured Poets Department singer in Cannes, it's been wild.
But he'll soon have to get back strictly to (mostly) business, with the Chiefs beginning training camp, which will prompt the New Heights podcast to go on a brief hiatus.
Keyword, brief.
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