Heidi Gardner and Travis Kelsey
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Heidi Gardner talks about the time she spent with Travis Kelce when he was… Saturday Night Live Host in March 2023, after the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl.
the SNL com. cast member Stop by Today with Hoda and Jenna on Friday, where she discussed how she initially suggested to Lorne Michaels that Kelsey host the sketch comedy series before it got big, with the hosts joking that Gardner liked it before Taylor Swift did.
As a native of Kansas City, Missouri, the comedian told Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that she was “very protective” of the Chiefs’ tight end. She added: “I asked him some questions, which I’m also interested in, as a sports fan, but I said, ‘On game day, what do you eat?’ And he was like, ‘Unbreakable.’ I only pound unbreakable things.
On the day of the hosting party, Shrink The actress told the morning show hosts that she went to the store and bought a batch of Uncrustables for Kelce to eat. “I was like, ‘I want to feel as much at home as possible,'” she said.
She shared that when the two were rehearsing a sketch where they were lying in bed together (“Sorry Taylor,” she joked), he expressed his appreciation for the gift.
“He leaned over to me right before the lights came on, and he was like, ‘I’ve been eating crustless foods all day.'” “And I said, ‘Awesome,'” she said, adding that she thought he “won.” SNL“And he did a good job.”
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