Jo Koy‘s joke concerning the consideration surrounding Taylor Swift‘s relationship with Travis Kelce didn’t precisely land properly — with anybody.
“The large distinction between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes, now we have fewer digicam pictures of Taylor Swift. I swear,” Koy, 52, mentioned throughout the 2024 Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7. “There’s simply extra to go to.”
Swift, 34, who was within the viewers, was removed from happy by Koy’s humor. She awkwardly took a sip from her drink whereas Koy modified the topic. Followers took to social media to indicate their help for Swift over the cringey joke.
“Taylor Swift being unamused by Jo Koy, she’s actually identical to us!” wrote one individual by way of X (previously Twitter) alongside a screenshot of the singer’s face. In the meantime, one other viewer requested, “Too late so as to add Jo Koy to the In Memoriam montage? I feel Taylor simply ended him.”
Swift’s romance with Kelce, 34, has been a significant matter of dialog since they went public in September 2023. After Swift began to indicate her help at Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ video games, the NFL determined to capitalize off the eye by utilizing her music for promotional clips and infrequently pointing the digicam at her throughout broadcasts.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed his help for the craze surrounding Swift and Kelce’s relationship, telling CBS in November 2023, “They appear to be having fun with their relationship. That’s nice in and of itself, however it has linked extra followers of Taylor’s and extra followers of the NFL in some methods. [Swift is] an unbelievable artist, clearly, Travis is an unbelievable participant and I feel it’s nice for the league to have that form of consideration — so we welcome it.”
Swift, in the meantime, waved off the detrimental reactions from some soccer followers.
“I don’t understand how they know what suite I’m in. There’s a digicam, like, a half-mile away, and also you don’t know the place it’s, and you don’t have any thought when the digicam is placing you within the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being proven 17 occasions or as soon as,” Swift informed TIME in December 2023 concerning the consideration. “I’m simply there to help Travis [Kelce]. I’ve no consciousness of if I’m being proven an excessive amount of and pissing off a number of dads, Brads and Chads.”
Swift and Kelce quietly began courting after he revealed his crush on the singer after attending the Kansas Metropolis cease on her Eras Tour in July. Kelce has since opened up concerning the sudden curiosity in his private life.
“I do know I introduced all this consideration to me. I’m the one which … did the entire friendship bracelet factor and informed all people how butthurt I used to be that I didn’t get to fulfill Taylor. What’s actual is that it’s my private life and I need to respect each of our lives,” he mentioned on a September 2023 episode of his “New Heights” podcast. “She’s not within the media as a lot as I’m, doing this present each single week and having enjoyable throughout the NFL season on different guys’ reveals.”
Throughout her dialog with TIME, Swift made it clear that she’s specializing in the optimistic, including, “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 individuals are there and we don’t care.”
She concluded: “The alternative of that’s it’s a must to go to an excessive quantity of effort to ensure nobody is aware of that you just’re seeing somebody. And we’re simply happy with one another.”