Comedian Billy Eichner said Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce got his name wrong "with such confidence" during Madonna's Oscars afterparty while appearing on Jimmy Fallon Live! Thursday (December 5) night.
Eichner said he last saw Kimmel at the same party before detailing his interaction with Kelce, who attended the event with his girlfriend, pop superstar Taylor Swift. The comedian said he noticed the couple “standing in the center of the” A-list party and was mingling elsewhere before he felt “a very strong, like, bro-y pat on my shoulder” from a “masculine man.”
Eichner, who said he is 6-foot-3, said he turned around and had to "look up" to see Kelce, who excitedly recognized him from his television show Billy on the Street, despite getting his name wrong.
“In a very loud booming voice in a house full of the most famous people in the world, Travis Kelce looks at me and says, ‘Jimmy on the Motherf**king’ Street, I love you, man,'” Eichner said. "This literally happened and he's beaming, he's so happy to see me and it's Travis Kelce who I'm not expecting to know who I am at all and he says, 'Jimmy on the Street, I love you, man!
“He said it with such confidence that I could not bring myself to correct him. He looked so happy to see me, I could tell he was a fan but he's Travis Kelce, he's huge, he's standing there with Taylor Swift, I didn't know what to do and then throughout the night we kept seeing me, we kept like criss-crossing each other and he kept like fist-bumping me."
Eichner went on to describe Kelce as "lovely" and noted that Kimmel was in the vicinity, which may have led to the name mixup, though the host said he hadn't spoken to the NFL star during the event.
Kelce famously revealed that he attempted to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number when he attended her concert at Arrowhead Stadium prior to their relationship in 2023. Swift later said that the three-time Super Bowl champion "very adorably put me on blast" when he acknowledged the situation on his New Heights podcast, which she said "was metal as hell" while being featured as Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' in December 2023.