Sorry, Swifties: Taylor Swift is jetting to Australia, not Kansas City Chiefs parade
There will be no Chiefs Super Bowl Parade (Taylor’s Version) this year.
Australian media outlets reported Tuesday evening that the Grammy winner, who is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, was flying from Los Angeles to Hawaii for a stop before flying on to Melbourne to resume her Eras Tour.
The “Midnights” singer is scheduled to perform sold-out shows there Friday, Saturday and Sunday before taking the tour on to Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 22 for four shows, then to Singapore on March 2.
“Taylor Swift is officially on her way here,” Melbourne TV station 10 News First tweeted Tuesday evening. “A private jet, believed to be carrying Swift, departed LAX earlier this morning en route to Hawaii, with flight logs showing the plane is due to land in Melbourne shortly after midnight tonight.”
The outlet reported that neither Swift’s camp nor the jet’s operating company confirmed Swift was onboard. But, “it is the same vessel that reportedly jetted Swift on her mad dash from Tokyo back to the United States in time to attend Monday’s Super Bowl.” (Melbourne is 19 hours ahead of Las Vegas, so the game was indeed on Monday there.)
Australian journalist Anthony Lucas tracked Swift’s plane and tweeted her whereabouts.
At about 8:12 p.m. Central Time he wrote: “Refueling complete. @taylorswift13 is on the way!”
“Swift’s efforts to stop her private plane from being tracked have not worked yet, and thousands are turning in to watch it make its way from Los Angeles to Melbourne,” Australian TV outlet The Project reported Tuesday night.
The outlet said that according to the live flight tracker website FlightRadar24, Swift is due to land in Melbourne at 12:31 a.m. Thursday, one day before she performs.
More than 4 million fans tried to get tickets to her shows in Australia.
Swift’s fans used a lot of brain cells in recent weeks trying to figure out how and if Swift could make it to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas after finishing up her concerts in Tokyo. She made the trip easily, thanks to the time change and international dateline.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas was mum about whether Swift would show up for the parade, and police chief Stacey Graves said that officers were absolutely prepared for a change in security.
Outside of Kansas City, there had not been as much speculation among her fans about whether she would attend the Chiefs’ victory parade on Wednesday.
Instead, they spent much of their time Monday and Tuesday watching and rewatching videos of Swift and Kelce celebrating and smooching on the field and at Super Bowl after parties in Vegas.
This story was originally published February 13, 2024 at 8:57 PM.
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