- Taylor Swift accepted the tour of the century award in a video speech at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards
Taylor Swift might’ve had a certain NFL star help record her 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards speech.
Fans are convinced that the 14-time Grammy winner’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, helped her record her acceptance speech when Swift, 35, accepted the tour of the century award in a pre-recorded video.
One TikTok video zoomed in on the shining iHeartRadio Music Awards trophy, which appeared to have the reflection of someone. Swifties flooded the comments section with their theories that Kelce, 35, is recording clip. “he’s literally holding the camera… omg,” one person said.
” ‘it could be anyone’ who else would it be like lets be serious 😭,” another wrote. “😂 Leave it to swifties to figure that out 🤣🤣🤣,” a third said.
“It really could be Travis because they were 2 days ago together in New York, so possibly they are still spending time together,” another hypothesized.
Some fans, however, pointed out that the reflection could have been someone else. “it could literally be anyone 💀,” one wrote. “u can’t even see anything like it can be anyone 😭,” someone else chimed in.
“It is a stretch but remember he is also a millennial too and took pictures and videos of her during her tour so I can only imagine he was beyond excited to take this video for her 🥰🫶,” another fan mused.
One joked that Swift’s pets were the cinematographers for the video. “I SAW SOMEONE COMPLAINING THAT THE VIDEO WAS RECORDED BY HER CATS😭😭.”
The “So High School” singer’s speech called back to her first night embarking on the Eras Tour, two years to the date of the awards show.
“I really can’t tell you how much this means to me because this, on behalf of my tour mates, all my fellow performers, my band, everyone who toured with us, our crew… this is actually the two-year anniversary of the first show of the Eras Tour, so I’ve been doing a lot of processing since I’ve been off the road these last few months,” Swift told fans in her virtual speech.
“People often say that sometimes the greatest challenges in life end up being something you’re so proud of or end up being the most gratifying feeling in the end, if you can rise to the occasion,” she continued.
“And this tour was absolutely the most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my life. It’s a 3.5 hour show, more shows than I’ve ever done on tour.”
She also gave a shoutout to her fans for helping make such an epic tour possible. “To the fans, you made these songs from the last couple decades into what they became so that we could do a 3.5 hour setlist. You had the passion and generosity to care about traveling to see us on tour in all these places all over the world.
“It blows my mind. I’m never going to stop being grateful for it. And I appreciate this more than you know.”
After her speech aired, a clip of her singing “mirrorball” during the opening night show in Glendale, Ariz. premiered.
Along with the tour of the century award, Swift won fan-voted categories including favorite tour style for her Eras Tour costumes, favorite tour tradition for the surprise song sets on her Eras Tour, best music video with Post Malone for “Fortnight,” and favorite on screen for her Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) movie.
Swift and Kelce also won the favorite surprise guest award. He made a surprise appearance during her Eras Tour at a London show at Wembley Stadium for the “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart” costume change skit.
