Taylor Swift’s boyfriend and NFL star Travis Kelce solid in Ryan Murphy horror collection
NFL participant and three-time Tremendous Bowl champion Travis Kelce has landed his first main performing function in a horror drama collection.
The FX collection, titled Grotesquerie, has been created by American Horror Story and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story producer Ryan Murphy.
The present will function stars of Murphy’s earlier tasks, together with Niecy Nash-Betts, who introduced Kelce’s involvement on Instagram earlier this week.
Nash-Betts posted a video of herself and Kelce with the caption: “That is what occurs when WINNERS hyperlink!!”
Nash-Betts obtained an Emmy Award for Excellent Supporting Actress for her efficiency in Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Within the video, Nash-Betts teased followers by saying: “Guys, guess who I’m working with on Grotesquerie?” earlier than revealing the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs participant.
Kelce, who has made headlines exterior of soccer information in current months via his relationship with Taylor Swift, reposted the clip on his Instagram, writing: “Steppin’ into a brand new world with one of many legends!”
Additionally becoming a member of the solid is English actor finest identified for The Crown and Phantom Thread, Lesley Manville, in addition to Courtney B. Vance.
Vance additionally earned an Emmy for his efficiency as Johnnie Cochran in FX collection The Folks V O.J. Simpson, which was a part of the American Crime Story anthology, additionally produced by Murphy.
Linking Kelce and his soon-to-be co-star Manville is a remark Swift made in her Time Individual Of The Yr article final December, the place she cited The Phantom Thread because the inspiration behind her ‘Midnights’ observe, ‘Mastermind’.
Kelce did seem on the small display screen final March when he hosted Saturday Evening Dwell, and returned in a later episode to make a cameo alongside Swift.
Again in 2020, the soccer participant appeared as a fictionalised model of himself in a single episode of comedy TV collection Moonbase 8.
Elsewhere, Kelce co-hosts a weekly on-camera sports activities podcast along with his brother, named New Heights With Jason & Travis Kelce. In September final 12 months, New Heights turned the no.1 sports activities podcast within the US, and the highest sports activities podcast globally on Spotify and Apple.
In different information, a docuseries about Swift’s dispute with Scooter Braun over the possession of the masters of her first six studio albums is coming this summer time.