Gracie Abrams Shares How Travis Kelce Gave Her Hilarious Assurance Before Taylor Swift’s London Show

Taylor Swift’s show at Wembley Stadium in London was packed with stars on June 23, with Travis Kelce making a surprise appearance on stage before “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” and Gracie Abrams surprising the crowd with the live debut of his collaboration with Swift, “Us.”

Abrams joined SiriusXM to discuss the performance, revealing that the Kansas City Chiefs tight end gave her a playful reassurance before she took the stage. “Before we both went on stage, we were in the tent, and he was like — he came up right before me, I think two songs or something. He was like, ‘I’m going to ruin this so you look really good,’” she recalled.

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The singer added about the Eras tour: “The thing is, it’s just a community of people who really support each other. Really, everyone, whether you’re in the tent or in the front row of the stadium, it’s like everyone’s there because there’s such a deep joy and feeling associated with all the music that she’s made over the last 18 years and it’s like, I don’t know. It’s really magical.”

“Us” features on Abram’s 13-track second studio album The secret of usreleased a few days earlier. The night they wrote this duet will be hard to forget, because the writing session ended in flames: a candle caused a small fire in the kitchen that Swift managed to put out herself with a fire extinguisher.

Abrams, 24, spent the summer opening for Swift. The tour of the erasa role she will reprise on select North American dates later this fall. She will embark on her own headlining tour of theater-sized venues across the United States, starting September 5 in Portland.

The secret of us features previously released tracks “Risk” and “Close to You,” which debuted at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and is the follow-up to Abrams’ debut album Good riddance, which arrived in February 2023, peaking at No. 52 on the Billboard 200.

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