Friendship bracelets have existed for many years — even perhaps centuries — however today they’re strongly related to one enormous star: Taylor Swift.
That’s why her boyfriend Travis Kelce obtained an enormous snicker when he needed to learn out a math query in regards to the beaded jewellery whereas internet hosting an episode of Are You Smarter Than a Superstar?
In a preview shared by Prime Video on Monday, January 27, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Kelce, 35, learn: “Nicole has 98 beads to make six friendship bracelets. If every bracelet has an equal variety of beads, what’s the fewest variety of leftover beads she will have?”. He then requested “What’s so humorous?” because the studio viewers laughed.
In response to the NFL participant’s tough downside, comic Nicole Byer joked that the viewers had been laughing as a result of she solely has six associates, whereas Vanderpump Guidelines’s Lala Kent, additionally showing on the present, oh-so-innocently questioned Kelce additional.
“Travis, are you aware anybody who likes friendship bracelets and issues like that?” she requested, to which Kelce responded coyly: “I do know just a few. Might need transformed them right into a Chiefs fan. I don’t know. We’ll see.”
(We obtained so far as 16 beads per bracelet, so we’re considering the equipment in query are doubtless spelling out a few of Swift’s shorter track titles!)
Students in Swift lore will, in fact, know that Kelce famously tried — however, initially, failed — to seduce Swift by means of friendship bracelet virtually two years in the past. On a July 2023 episode of his New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce podcast, he revealed that he had deliberate to slide her a beaded creation backstage at certainly one of her Eras reveals. “I used to be disenchanted that she doesn’t discuss earlier than or after her reveals as a result of she has to avoid wasting her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” he mentioned. “I didn’t get at hand her one of many bracelets I made for her.” He added that he was “somewhat butt harm.”
He defined additional: “If you happen to’re up on Taylor Swift live shows, there are friendship bracelets, and I obtained a bunch of them being there, however I wished to offer Taylor Swift one with my quantity on it.”
Fortunately, he obtained to fulfill Swift in the long run — and the remainder is historical past: friendship bracelets at Swift’s reveals at the moment are as a lot of a staple as Swift cheering Kelce on within the stands at a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs sport!
On Sunday, January 28, Swift supported Kelce as his staff defeated the Buffalo Payments, incomes their third consecutive spot on the Tremendous Bowl.