Taylor Swift Tackles Rumored Super Bowl Halftime Performance Pass on ‘Tonight Show’: ‘Nothing To Do With Travis’

After launching her The Life of a Showgirl promo tally with a clump of English interrogation appearances, Taylor Swift was backmost connected U.S. precocious nighttime TV connected Monday nighttime (Oct. 6) for an extended sit-down with The Tonight Show‘s Jimmy Fallon that included the vocalist weighing successful connected whether she was approached to play adjacent year’s Super Bowl halftime show, the existent meaning down 1 of the lustiest songs connected her caller medium and the crushed bestie Ed Sheeran recovered retired astir her engagement connected the net similar the remainder of us.

After Fallon came retired to bash his accepted monologue, the Roots interrupted him and said, “Just halt wasting clip and bring her retired already.” So, aft what helium called the loudest ovation he’s ever heard from the workplace audience, Fallon greeted the vocalist — who came retired sparkling successful a shimmery metallic mini formal and matching heels — saying helium needed to get a look astatine that gigantic “blinding” engagement ringing connected her finger.

After they rehashed the by-now-canon details of her elaborate engagement to Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (“he’s conscionable my favourite idiosyncratic I’ve ever met”), Swift and Fallon played a modified mentation of 2 truths and a prevarication that opened with the rumor that she turned down a accidental to play the 2026 Super Bowl halftime amusement due to the fact that the NFL wouldn’t let her to ain the show footage.

“Here’s the thing: Jay-Z has ever been precise bully to me,” Swift said of the rap mogul who’s Roc Nation produces the halftime amusement aft smiling and holding her lingua until the remainder of the rumors were read. “Our teams are truly close. They sometimes volition telephone and say, ‘How does she consciousness astir [the Super Bowl]?’ And that’s not similar an authoritative connection oregon similar a league country conversation. Just ‘Our teams are truly close, however does she consciousness astir it successful general?’”

Swift explained that her squad has ever been precise frank with Roc Nation astir her ties to the NFL via Kelce. “And we’re ever capable to archer him the truth. Which is that I americium successful emotion with a feline who does that athletics connected that existent field,” she said. “That is convulsive chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. The full play I americium locked successful connected what that antheral is doing connected the field. Can you ideate that he’s retired determination each azygous week, similar putting his beingness connected the line, doing this precise dangerous, precise precocious pressure, precocious strength sport, and I’m like, ‘I wonderment what my choreo should be?’”

As for allegedly turning down the most-viewed show slot of the year, Swift said that her determination to walk “is thing to bash with Travis. He would emotion for maine to bash it. I’m conscionable excessively locked in.” It’s not similar the NFL wasn’t interested. In September...