Taylor Swift continued her Life of a Showgirl promo push on Wednesday night (Oct. 8) with a three-segment sit-down on Late Night with Seth Meyers during which she closed the circle on the story of Zoë Kravitz losing her Burmese python at the singer’s house and had some fun tweaking fiancé Travis Kelce about that time he mixed up Hugh Grant’s wife with Greta Gerwig at the Eras Tour.
The latter story involved the Kansas City Chiefs tight end attending Swift’s June 2024 Eras show in London, where he was sat in the VIP box alongside actor Grant and his wife, Anna Eberstein, who Kelce apparently confused with Barbie director Greta Gerwig. In describing her mega-FOMO about looking out at the raucous celeb-packed box that night — also at the London show were Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Liam Hemsworth, Tom Cruise and all of Kelce’s best friends from Cleveland — Swift described being jealous at the shot-taking and party atmosphere in the roped-off section, with Taylor worrying that her 6’6″ intended’s hard dancing might actually shake the tent to the ground.
“The most fun thing about having Travis out on tour is that he would go to the tents and give me the tea afterward,” she said of their post-show car chats. Before the gig, she let him know that his “favorite director,” Gerwig, was in the tent, so she encouraged him to tell her how much he loves her films. “She’s the sweetest, giggliest person,” Swift said.
In the car ride after the show, a shot-filled Kelce said that it was “the most fun tent” of the tour thus far, gushing about what a blast it was mingling with the A-listers, though Swift noticed he didn’t mention meeting Gerwig. “I think I told an annoying joke that she’s heard too many times,” Kelce admitted, explaining that he told Gerwig how much he loved Barbie, pointing up to the stage at Swift and saying “I’m just Ken, too.”
Swift thought it was a totally solid joke, with Kelce describing how Gerwig “smiled politely” at the quip, something Taylor thought was “very out of character,” surmising that maybe she had heard the bit too many times. “‘She was talking to Hugh Grant all night, so I think they might be doing a movie together,’” Kelce explained. “‘They were really, really close. They were dancing all night, had all these inside jokes that kind of seemed like they were soul mates,’” he told her. “‘The tea is crazy tonight,’” Swift recalled thinking.
As Kelce kept talking about it, Swift was scrolling through pics on her phone, seeing photos and videos of Travis dancing with Gerwig “like they’re best friends.” She showed him a video of Gerwig laughing, surmising that she did think the joke was funny, only to have Kelce say “‘that’s not Greta.’”
“‘Is there any chance at all, baby, that you complimented Hugh Grant’s wife Anna on her movie Barbie, said ‘I’m just Ken, too’ and she politely nodded because she didn’t have the heart to tell you she didn’t direct it?,’” Swift asked Kelce. “‘And is there any chance that the people who look like soul mates are Hugh Grant and his soul mate?’”
“The bad news for you is he has face blindness,” Meyers joked. “The good thing is he recognized true love. He saw soulmates, and he knew they were soulmates.”
In her first appearance on the show in five years, Swift also told Meyers that the Life of a Showgirl roll-out has “absolutely been my favorite one,” calling it the “most joyful” promo run she’s had to date. And, for the first time, she said her whole family, including her mom, dad and brother, have all been with her on the global press tour, joking that her mom was struggling to find Wheel of Fortune on British TV. “I’m floored, I’m blown away by this week. I don’t know how to say thank you enough for everything that you guys have put into caring about the music and caring about this week. We’re doing this together,” she said.
She also, of course, talked about her oft-noted bread-baking obsession, with Meyers trying to keep up by busting out some of the loafs larded with lyric-inspired puns, with both agreeing that the “Fate of Doughphelia” bread puns need to stop. He then played a clip from the Showgirl movie event in which Swift gets super excited about getting some of her bread into “The Fate of Ophelia” video, which she directed. “It was a huge moment for me because obviously my bread has always been for texture and taste, but this was for camera,” she joked. “This is a huge challenge, for me, for the bread, for my starter. Like, ‘okay, are you showbiz bread?’”
As for the Kravitz incident, the actress previously told Meyers about losing her mom Lisa Bonet’s pet Burmese python at Swift’s house after the singer generously invited the mother-daughter to stay with her during the L.A. wildfires earlier this year, and how they had to “completely” destroy one of the bathrooms to extricate the pet. Swift told Meyers she “can’t even be mad” about the bit, prefacing the “Taylor’s version” of the story by saying “we’ve all got that one friend.”
“I just remember getting a call from my head of security and him trying to explain this story to me,” Swift said, noting that her first question was “what snake?”
“I kind of found myself listening to this,” Swift said. “And I’m like, ‘Uh-huh, OK, OK.’ And I hate to first-and-last name a friend, but it’s important in this situation. OK, so Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet are holding on to a Burmese python. It’s halfway in the wall. There’s a man standing with an ax, who has just chopped up a custom vintage antique cupboard. There’s splinters on the floor. They’re looking — in my mind, this is an Annie Leibovitz shoot… It just sound incredible. I’m sad I didn’t see it.”
Mayers had a special Tay/Kover blue mug on his desk and the entire night was devoted to Swift, with the host sprinting through is traditional “A Closer Look” segment to get to the main event. He also, super casually, asked about the invitations for her wedding to Kelce, which Swift, shockingly, said she had not even thought about it yet. Meyers, who graciously agreed to an Evite for the blessed event, then suggested Swift send the invites in a picture frame, since people will probably frame it up anyway.
Watch Swift on Late Night below.
