All the Oscar Nom Dramzzzz has quieted down - cough, Greta Gerwig was robbed cough, cough - and Awards Season has been on a few consecutive ~bye weeks~ (nice sports reference, T).
Last night’s Directors Guild Awards kicked off the sprint to the March 10 finish line (another sports reference!), but given this current period of awards downtime, I’ve decided to graciously acknowledge The Sports. I famously hate the NFL and think it’s rigged, but I’m putting my criticisms aside thanks to an undisclosed amount of money (I wish) to talk Super Bowl LVIII.
BTW I need everyone to know that when I see and write LVIII I think I’m reading and writing LEVELS by AVICII
*THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU IN PAID PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT RIGGED*
Super Bowl weekend is for the sports, but it’s really for the celebs. Yes there’s the big budget commercials and the infamous halftime show, but beyond the obvious, it’s a juicy weekend to see and be seen: the parties, the suites, who is sitting with who! so many random celeb friendships are revealed during this famous game! Who had to scrape together a brand deal for a ticket and who is just rich enough to go for fun?Who could only get into the parties and was snubbed from the stadium?? Which creepy billionaire will have a suite full of models (TBT to Jho Low and Emrata and Miranda Kerr).
I expect this year to be star studded on steroids thanks to Sin City. The celebrities LOVE the Vegas. I imagine LA was like that episode of entourage where LAX shuts down and everyone needs to get to Cannes via PJ. Big weekend for carbon emissions, BIG weekend.
Who can blame them honestly?! Civilian me has absolutely 0 interest in attending the Super Bowl. Celebrity me? Goes every year! Flies private, does photo calls, takes pics with sponsors, fans etc, AND goes for the entire weekend when its in The Vegas. I’d stay at the Wynn, squeeze in dinner at Delilah and Adele’s concert, OBVIOUSLY see U2 at the sphere and hit every party in between.
Since that was NOT my life this weekend, I’ve been thinking about whose it will be. Which celebrities will be Super Bowl LVIII’s Most Valuable Party Ppl?!?
First - Usher, full stop. In my weekly Friday am therapy (aka Kristin Sudeikis’ dance class) we danced our faces off to Yeah, Love in this Club, DJ’s Got us Fallin in Love, Caught Up etc. This promo gave me chills. I am ready!
Typical Super Bowl Halftime shows are 13 mins. I read a rumor is Usher’s team might’ve got him 15 mins…. plenty of time for special guests…. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀
I could see Alicia Keys too. My Boo!
Beyonce also giving the 👀 👀 👀 👀 emoji. Verizon posted two tiktoks with our favorite Veep star Tony Hale giving ‘yonce easter eggs like lemons and the Renaissance horse.
One thing I’m not on board with though re: celebrity commercial cameos is their social media teaser trailers. Can we not just watch them live during the game and be totally surprised? I guess in this economy that Ad spend needs to do the WERK, but it takes a little fun out of it.
Anyway back to the M.V.P.Ps -
Famous Usher lover Kim K is there fueling the rumors she’s dating Odell Beckham Jr!!!!
I’m sure Adele will be there, Bono, Post Malone is singing America the Beautiful <3 <3, famous chiefs fans Paul Rudd and Jason Sudeikis (another KC guy), obvi the Culpo girlies and their enemy Alix Earle, more chiefs fans SNL’s Heidi Gardner, and Henry Winkler. Brad Pitt, 49ers ppl Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Jeremy Renner, Erin Foster, even outside of Kim there will definitely be a heavy KarJenner presence there, maybe Ye again he took the kids a few years ago. If Bieber IS performing we can count on that whole friend group, honestly there’s going to be so SO SO many celebs there. I’m sure Jay Z, JLo, Ben, like I could go on forever!!!
And of course……………………………. TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT and friends !!!!!!!!!!! My vote for M.V.P.Ps. I am dying to know who she will bring, but I definitely know of at least two…
the next section of this essay is dedicated entirely to TS and Friends so if you’re not a fan or don’t care, you have my permission to log off. TY for reading as always & best of luck in any gambling endeavors! xo.
interested parties you can also save this for when you’re bored during the game
I really want to focus on PROFESSIONAL PARTY PPL Miles and Keleigh Teller. The two live the LIFE. They are always at every fun event, constantly on yachts / on vacation somewhere fab, have a wide reaching friend group of so many celebs and cool normies too. LY they were in a BudLight Super Bowl commercial - I mean that’s some serious M.V.P.P. behavior!!!! Miles has been a longtime crush, but I want to specifically focus on Taylor Swift’s Friend of the Year, Keleigh. Given my disclaimer above that if you don’t care about TS&Co GTFO, I can assume all of us here know the recent history - Keleigh gave Taylor a ring for her bday with both their birthstones everyone flipped it was an engagement ring and K clapped back at DeuxMoi, she’s been at every Chiefs game posting all over IG and TikTok, and when I posted the below from the Golden Globes -
I got a flood of DMs asking how they became such close friends….. so away we go!
The short story is Keleigh and Taylor have been friends since for almost 10, yes TEN years. They presumably met through mutual friends, specifically Dianna Agron (someone people think Taylor Swift was romantically involved with her, juicy) and Jessica Szohr (Vanessa from Gossip Girl).
How did Keleigh become friends with these famous ppl? Well her and Miles started dating in 2013, his career was really taking off due to the Divergent movies (which are like hunger games vibes if you don’t know them) so Young Hollywood is as Young Hollywood does! They party, they mingle, I imagine it to just be a friend group like any of us established when we got to college or moved to a new city afterwards. Just meshing together with whoever so and so knows from home or school or work and as the years go on that friend group continues to morph and grow.
In my investigative journalism for this Teller Manifesto, I found a truly FASCINATING reddit thread. Thank you to R/GaylorSwift user glowoffthepavement for doing God’s work. You can read it in full here, but below are some highlights:
Miles and Keleigh started dating around 2013. Summer 2013, Taylor Swift surprise performed at a Rolling Stones concert Keleigh attend with the cast of the Divergent movies. BTW in addition to Miles those movies starred Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Zoe Kravitz and more. Zoe Kravitz = TS Bestie.
6 months later Jan In 2014. History was made. One of the best films of all time - That Awkward Moment - was released. The premiere afterparty was a MOMENT. Young Hollywood descended on Lucky Strike Bowling Lanes in LA. Aaron RODGERS was there. These headlines are bananas !!!! It’s especially crazy because one of Miles and Keleigh’s closest long time friends is Shailene Woodley, she was engaged to Aaron in 2021. The 4 of them went to Hawaii together! I had no idea he dated Jessica Szhor back in the day!!!!
“Taylor Swift Gets Cozy With Aaron Rodgers” - the NFL ties go so deep!!!!
2015 they all continue to party together, go to the 1989 tour etc. Vintage IG pics with Selena Gomez and friend of aforementioned Dianna Agron. Keleigh has a LONG history of posting pics with famous ppl on instagram!!!!
2015-2019 we can assume everyone continues to pal around, go to the reputation tour.
What gets super interesting and we love the Swifties for this shit is that in 2018 Keleigh captioned a photo ‘Cruel Summer’………….. a YEAR before that song came out……..
Keleigh and Miles get married 9/1/19 (same date as 2 of my fav subscribers <3 shoutout!) Taylor does NOT attend (I know ppl who did lol) Keleigh uses Lover lyrics as her wedding photo caption on IG.
The thread goes on to document all their instances of friendship - the Folklore Cardigan, Miles starring in a recent ish music video, etc etc.
Speaking of the Folklore cardigan, Keleigh captioned her photo of it this long thank you including the phrase “folklore Hits different” specifically capitalizing Hits…. based on the above Cruel Summer easter egg…. I believe KT was teasing Midnights BACK IN 2020!!!
Fast forward to present day - their friendship is wildly public now as we all know. One thing I have specific fomo over is this photo of RPatz, SUKI WATERHOUSE, julia garner (another KT bestie), Keleigh, Miles, and Aaron Rodgers all at Eras at MetLife.
i obviously deep dove the comments and since this was from the r/GaylorSwift space someone suggested Taylor and Keleigh are/were romantically involved and Miles is actually with Aaron Rodgers (he’s always had some gay rumors). LMAOOOOOOO you gotta love the internet.
I’ve seen some grumpy ppl online dislike how Keleigh is always posting her famous friends on socials - “is she doing it for clout?”, “she looks so smug”, “she’s using Taylor” blah blah blah - get over it!!!!!!!!!!! She has a long storied history of posting her famous friends on IG. One of these photos dates back to 2013!!! She references having a FAKE ID in one! She was always just posting HER friends that happen to be famous.
I’m also seeing “She’s using her famous husband to make famous friends” OKAY AND SO? You wouldn’t do the same?! You’ve never made friends with your boyfriend’s friends girlfriends? It’s literally Mutual Friends 101, they just happen to be famous as hell! Admit you’re jealous, I definitely am! I am actively manifesting joining said friend group.
Thank you for your service Keleigh, we here at Tricia’s Tomatoes salute you. Keep living your best life and posting about it. Just invite me soon please I’m begging! I’m a good time gal!!!!
ok writing this made me actually excited for the game! SPORTS! have a great sunday everyone! you are all MY most valuable party people!!!!!!
ciao!
BRAVO TT! What a release! The research! THIS is JOURNALISM!!!!