Donna Kelce has a front-row seat to son Travis Kelce’s love story with Taylor Swift — and he or she is likely to be sharing what she’s discovered in Hallmark’s Vacation Landing: A Chiefs Love Story.
Donna performed a namesake character within the Hallmark film, which premiered on Saturday, November 30, as a waitress at a neighborhood Independence, Missouri, barbecue joint because the Present-Me State is famend for its BBQ.
Vacation Landing, a part of Hallmark’s newfound partnership with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, charts the romance between devoted group fan Alana (Hunter King) and Chiefs staffer Derrick (Tyler Hynes). Because the pair slowly fall in love over Christmastime, her mother and grandmother attempt to pace up the matchmaking course of.
“Don’t pressure it, women,” Donna replies. “Simply let it occur. Belief me on this one.”
Followers on social media felt it was a delicate reference to how Travis, 35, and Swift, 34, received collectively final 12 months.
In what may have been its personal film, the 14-time Grammy winner was lengthy considered one in all Travis’ superstar crushes. By July 2023, he went to see her Eras Tour when she stopped in Kansas Metropolis. (Travis, after all, lives in KC and performs for the Chiefs as a good finish.)
Travis went on to rave in regards to the “electrical” live performance on his and brother Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, including that he felt “butthurt” that he couldn’t meet Swift backstage.
“This all began when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I assumed was metallic as hell,” Swift recalled to TIME in a December 2023 profile. “We began hanging out proper after that. We truly had a major period of time that nobody knew, which I’m grateful for as a result of we received to get to know one another.”
The pair publicly debuted their relationship in September 2023 when she went to one in all Travis’ dwelling Chiefs video games. She sat in a personal field with Donna.
“By the point I went to that first recreation, we had been a pair. I believe some individuals suppose that they noticed our first date at that recreation. We might by no means be psychotic sufficient to laborious launch a primary date,” Swift added to the outlet. “Once you say a relationship is public, meaning I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re displaying up for one another, different persons are there and we don’t care.”
Travis feels the identical, usually stepping out at Swift’s Eras Tour exhibits. In Might, he even gushed to Us Weekly solely that the performances had been “unbelievable.”
Vacation Landing: A Chiefs Love Story is offered to stream on Peacock and Hallmark+.