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Jason Kelce Roasts Viral Headline About Mom Donna Kelce’s Florida Home Renovation

TMZ published a headline about Donna Kelce remodeling her Florida home. A home renovation. That was the story. And the internet — led by her son Jason Kelce — absolutely ran with it.

The former Philadelphia Eagles center, who has turned his post-retirement social media presence into must-follow content, quote-tweeted the TMZ story on X with a single line: “BREAKING!! Sources confirm Donna Kelce’s eldest son watched 2 hours of Bluey yesterday.”

That reference to the children’s TV show — self-aware, deadpan, dripping with dad energy — captured exactly why Jason Kelce’s online following has kept growing months after he hung up his cleats. He didn’t ignore the headline. He didn’t complain about the scrutiny. He mocked the entire news cycle while casually letting everyone know he’s just a regular dad watching cartoons with his kids.

Jason wasn’t alone. The official account for “New Heights — the podcast he co-hosts with his brother Travis Kelce — also responded to the TMZ headline. The account wrote “new news I guess,” paired with a crying-laughing emoji and a shrugging emoji.

Short and pointed, the response landed the same way Jason’s did: this is what counts as Kelce family news now?

Both Jason’s personal account and the New Heights brand account jumping on the same story says something about how tuned in the Kelce operation is to online conversation. They know their audience, they see the absurdity, and they’re happy to play along with it.

Social media users flooded the replies with sarcastic reactions to the TMZ headline.

One user wrote, “I’m currently in the middle of getting my driveway re-paved. Can I get a news article on this?”

Another wrote, “Hold on let me cancel work on Monday so I can process this monumental development.”

A third delivered what might have been the best response of the bunch: “You’re laughing? Donna Kelce is remodeling her modest Florida home and you’re laughing?”

The pile-on illustrated where the Kelce family sits in pop culture right now. The media appetite for anything Kelce-related — Jason, Travis, Donna, any of them — has reached a point where the most mundane family activities get the headline treatment. And the audience knows exactly how ridiculous that is.

The home remodel headline is just the latest sign of how deeply the Kelce family has embedded itself in the entertainment world. It goes beyond Jason’s social media and the New Heights podcast. Donna Kelce has carved out her own lane.

Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists.

Hanna Wickes
Miami Herald
Hanna Wickes is a content specialist working with McClatchy Media’s Trend Hunter and national content specialists team. She also writes for Life & Style, In Touch, Mod Moms Club and more, covering everything from trending TV shows to K-pop drama and the occasional controversial astrology take (she’s a Virgo, so it tracks). Before joining Life & Style, she spent three years as a writer and editor at J-14 Magazine — right up until its shutdown in August 2025 — where she covered Young Hollywood and, of course, all things K-pop. She began her journalism career as a local reporter for Straus News, chasing small-town stories before diving headfirst into entertainment. Hanna graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2020 with a degree in Communication Studies and Journalism.
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