Taylor Swift’s return to the Emmys comes with a built-in complication: the show lands on the same night Travis Kelce opens the NFL season.
Swift picked up five Emmy nominations on Wednesday, her first in a decade, while Kelce is set to play the Denver Broncos in the Chiefs’ first regular-season game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. The Emmys will air live Monday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m.
Central. The Chiefs’ primetime kickoff follows at 7:15 p.m.
That overlap means fans may have to keep waiting for Swift and Kelce’s first official red carpet appearance together. It also leaves open the question of where Swift will be, especially with the possibility that this could be Kelce’s final NFL season.
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour - The Final Show” was nominated for best variety special (prerecorded), best directing for a variety special, picture editing, sound mixing, and technical direction and camerawork. The concert film debuted Dec. 12 on Disney+ and captures the final performance of Swift’s record-setting Eras Tour, the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Swift later released the six-episode docuseries “The End of an Era,” which offered “an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world.” Kelce appeared in the docuseries.
This isn’t Swift’s first Emmy win. She took home her first in 2015 for outstanding creative achievement in interactive media for “AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience,” a mobile app tied to her “Blank Space” music video.
Swift and Kelce did attend the iHeart Radio Musc Awards together in March, though Kelce did not walk the red carpet with her.
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