Jason Kelce mocks Taylor Swift for turning her back on Pennsylvania roots

Pop star Taylor Swift is set to make her debut on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s hit podcast, “New Heights,” tonight—but if fans thought the NFL star and his brother, Jason, were going to go easy on the chart-topper, it seems they were sorely mistaken.

The Kelce brothers, who launched their podcast in September 2022, first teased Taylor’s appearance on the show earlier this week, with a preview clip later revealing that the “Bad Blood” singer will use the episode to discuss her upcoming album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

Since sharing the big reveal online—sending Taylor’s fans into a spiral in the process—Travis and Jason have continued to air short clips from the episode ahead of its release, with the latest sneak peek suggesting that the songstress had to endure her fair share of mockery while chatting with the duo.

In a video shared to the “New Heights” Instagram account, Jason can be seen introducing Taylor with much aplomb; however, that praise very quickly turns into some hilarious teasing over the hit maker’s very strong ties to Nashville, TN, where she launched her music career.

“Our guest today is a singer, songwriter, and producer—and director—from Nashville, Tennessee … That’s bulls— !” Jason says, while Travis and Taylor are seen grinning at each other. “She is from Reading, Pennsylvania!”

The truth bomb leaves both Travis and Taylor in fits of laughter before Jason continues by listing the singer’s many accolades, earning a fist bump from his brother.

“Making her podcasting debut, the most impressive guest in the history of shows, Taylor Swift!” Jason roars at the camera, prompting Taylor to remark, “That intro, Jason. Oh my god.

“No, look, his soul has left his body,” she goes on, as Jason jokes: “I’m cramping.”

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“That was so good, thank you for screaming for like 47 seconds for me,” Taylor continues. “That was so nice, that was so sweet.”

Much like Jason’s rundown of the pop star’s many awards, his note about her hailing from Pennsylvania is very much true, despite the fact that many of her fans most closely associate her with the country music scene in Nashville, where her singing career took off.

Taylor was, in fact, born on a picturesque Christmas tree farm—a property that she famously honored in her hit 2019 song, “Christmas Tree Farm.”

Her father, Scott, purchased the 11-acre farm from a client and spent time tending to the grounds when not working his full-time job at Merrill Lynch, with the family residing there for several years after Taylor was born in 1988.

Then, in the late 1990s, the Swift family moved to a new dwelling nearby, which they purchased for $280,000, according to records.

That property, which last hit the market in 2022, when it sold for $800,000, would end up being the last abode that the family would own in Pennsylvania before upping sticks to (you guessed it) Nashville in a bid to help their daughter with her dream of becoming a singer.

In 2003, they moved into a Hendersonville, TN, home that was located about 30 minutes outside of Nashville, having purchased it that same year for $790,000.

According to reports, the Swifts still own the home today — although Taylor has since gone on to amass an enormous portfolio of properties that is worth around $100 million and includes multiple residences in the Tennessee city that turned her into a star.

Her first property purchase in the city came in 2009, when she was just 21 years old, in the form of a $2 million four-bedroom condo that was located in Nashville’s iconic Music Row neighborhood.

According to reports, she also scooped up the smaller one-bedroom apartment below hers that same year for $387,000 — both of which she still owns to this day.

However, she laid down more roots in Nashville in 2011, when she snapped up a Greek Revival mansion in a gated community, paying $2.5 million for the stunning abode, which she bought primarily for her parents.

And while Swift continues to maintain a very close connection to Nashville, she has since expanded her real estate elsewhere, picking up homes in Los Angeles, Rhode Island, and New York City, all of which she continues to use to this day.

In fact, her Beverly Hills abode, which she bought for a staggering $25 million in 2015, recently found itself at the center of the news agenda when Taylor’s close friend Zoe Kravitz revealed that she had “destroyed” part of the property while staying there during the California wildfires.

Kravitz, 36, shared the dramatic events that unfolded during an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” leaving host Seth Meyers open-mouthed in shock as she revealed the twisted tale.

The saga began, the actress revealed, after Swift generously offered up her empty home to Kravitz and her mother, Lisa Bonet, who had been evacuated from their own homes amid the deadly wildfires that began tearing through Los Angeles in January.

At the time, Taylor was not residing in the home — instead spending her time after the conclusion of the Eras Tour in New York, while also traveling to her boyfriend’s NFL games, leaving her property available for friends to use.

While staying in the home, Kravitz confessed that her mom lost sight of her pet snake, Orpheus, who managed to sneak through a hole in the bathroom, leaving the mother-daughter duo forced to enlist the help of Taylor’s house manager in recovering the reptile, which had slithered behind a built-in banquette.

“He starts having to tear apart this banquette, we’re ripping up the tiles, we’re scratching the walls,” she said. “We completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom. And there was just this moment where I was like, ‘Either we destroy her bathroom, or I have to tell her there’s a snake somewhere in her house.’”

Eventually, after wreaking havoc in the bathroom, the actress and her mom were able to get the snake out of the hole—and Kravitz said she promised the house manager that she would get everything fixed before Swift returned, admitting that she begged him not to tell the pop star what had transpired until she could complete the repairs.

“I remember calling her and saying, ‘Hey,” also in a very high voice, ‘I just wanted to talk to you about something,’” Kravitz revealed. “And she was like, ‘Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in my house and destroyed my bathroom?’”

Thankfully, Taylor has been spending the vast majority of her time at her New York City apartment in recent months—while also traveling to her boyfriend’s Kansas abode to record her podcast interview.

Travis, who began preseason training with the Chiefs at the end of July, bought his expansive property in 2023 for $6 million and not long after began working on a sprawling “man cave” that was being installed underneath the mansion.

Plans for the underground area reveal that builders were going to begin work by digging up the existing basement floor and lowering it by 2 feet to add more space to the final product.

In October, an employee at the Leawood Public Works Department confirmed to Realtor.com® that a “permit for [Kelce’s home] was filed two weeks ago for a remodel on an existing basement, two new drainage interiors and forming concrete walls.”

Beyond the man cave, the house also features six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a chef’s kitchen, a formal dining room, a media lounge, a wine cellar, and a full bar.

A beautiful pool sits outside alongside manicured lawns. Nearby, there’s an outdoor kitchen, tennis and pickleball courts, a waterfall, a hot tub, and a miniature golf course.

Located inside a gated community, the grand estate sits on nearly 3.5 acres at the end of a cul-de-sac. The mansion is far more secluded than his other home in Kansas City, a 4,200-square-foot mansion in the Briarcliff West neighborhood that he purchased for $995,000 in 2019.