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EXCLUSIVE: London Bar Manager Was Holding a Cutout of Taylor Swift When Travis Kelce Walked in to Film His Podcast and they were having……
“There I was standing with his girlfriend!” says Passyunk Avenue manager Jessi Riley, who hosted Jason, Travis and Kylie Kelce for the latest episode of the ‘New Heights’ podcast.
While Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast is usually recorded in their home cities of Philadelphia and Kansas City, the most recent episode took a trip across the pond. The brothers were in London to support Travis’ girlfriend Taylor Swift during her Eras Tour — but they still managed to make the location feel like home.
With Jason’s ties to the Philadelphia Eagles (he announced his retirement after 13 seasons in March), it seems the only logical place in the English capital to record was Passyunk Avenue. The Philly-inspired dive bar located in the heart of central London welcomed the brothers on June 22 — the day after Jason and his wife Kylie Kelce attended their first Eras Tour show at Wembley Stadium. Travis, 34, ordered a beer and a cheesesteak “as soon as he arrived,” manager Jessi Riley tells PEOPLE.
“We were having a ‘Swiftie Party’ later that day and it was extra funny because I was setting up the cardboard cut out of Taylor Swift as Travis walked in,” says Riley. “I kind of said, ‘Sorry about the girlfriend, we’re having a Taylor Swift afterparty tonight,’ and he said, ‘As am I.’ He was a bit early, so I wasn’t expecting him for another 45 minutes, so there I was standing with his girlfriend!”
Riley’s first interaction with Jason, 36, was not as eventful but just as sweet. “[He] felt like a face I already knew,” says Riley. “He walked in and gave me a big bear hug around the shoulders and it just felt normal.”