The Monterey Bay Aquarium has invited Travis Kelce to come back for a go to after his pop star girlfriend, Taylor Swift, revealed this week that he has a fascination with the thought of rescuing and befriending sea otters.
Through the couple’s viral “New Heights” podcast episode, Kelce fessed as much as his love of watching sea otter rescue movies and mentioned he’d even like to satisfy one within the “wild,” prompting a Monterey Bay Aquarium spokesperson to inform TMZ that they might be blissful to ship the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish extra details about these marine mammals.
Isabel Lara identified that otters are greater than “just cute animals.” Like Kelce “is on the football field, they are important players in marine ecosystems,” she added. She additionally mentioned that Kelce — and possibly Swift, too — can be welcome anytime to go to the 4 otters who dwell within the aquarium. In response to the world-famous aquarium’s web site, these otters had been stranded as pups, raised on the aquarium and have grow to be a part of its otter habitat exhibit as a result of they will now not dwell within the wild.
“We’re so pleased to learn Travis cares about sea otters,” Lara informed TMZ, earlier than including: “We’d be happy to provide more information if he wants to share more about otters on his podcast during Sea Otter Awareness Week from September 21-27.”
Kelce’s otter obsession got here up throughout a dialogue with Swift and Jason Kelce, his brother and “New Heights” co-host, about what Swift has been doing with herself since she ended her blockbuster Eras World Tour, which stretched from March 2023 to December 2024. Little doubt, Swift has spent a few of her time engaged on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which she introduced on the podcast and which is due for launch on Oct. 3.
However Swift additionally mentioned she has grow to be immersed in cooking and baking, particularly completely different flavors of sourdough bread. She mentioned she had discovered on-line communities of people that share her love for baking sourdough loaves.
“This is where the Internet is a good place, where you can curate a reality, where, like, all I really use the internet for is sourdough,” Swift mentioned. She then revealed that Kelce makes use of the web discover Instagram movies of sea otters.
“I want a wild animal,” Kelce broke in. “I want a wild otter so bad. I just want to, like, find these little creatures.”
Swift herself broke again in to say that Kelce doesn’t need to take an otter out of the wild, as in taking a pup from its mom. As a substitute, she mentioned he needs to befriend one “whose life he saved.”
“He wants to see an otter, and the otter is, like, ‘My paw is caught in a shell,’ and he’s, like, ‘I got you.’” Swift defined. “And then the otter is, like, ‘thank you forever,’ with its little paws.”
Swift mentioned she envisions them out collectively kayaking and an otter would swim as much as them: “That’s what he wants, and I want it too, honestly. I mean, who doesn’t?”
Sadly, a go to by Kelce (and Swift) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium will most likely have to attend a number of months, or probably longer, based on TMZ. The Chiefs and different NFL groups have begun pre-season video games, with the season formally kicking off Sept. 4. However Kelce might nonetheless get acquainted with the aquarium and its otters from afar, particularly by tuning in to its Sea Otter Cam. It dwell streams from the exhibit from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day.
The aquarium says it has has been on the epicenter of sea otter restoration for greater than 30 years, saying that these a long time of analysis have revealed the very important function these animals play “in creating resilient coastal ecosystems.”
Initially Printed: August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM PDT
