Taylor Swift was the odds-on Vegas favourite to headline the 2026 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present. However after the NFL chose Bad Bunny, an unverified report circulated claiming that Swift had handed on the chance as a result of the league refused her request to personal the halftime footage.
Swift addressed the report throughout an look on The Tonight Present Monday night time, flatly denying its veracity. “Jay-Z [who curated the halftime show] has all the time been superb to me — our [business] groups are actually shut. They often will name and say, ‘How does she really feel about…And that’s not, like, an official supply or a conference-room dialog, extra ‘How does she really feel about it typically?’”
“And we’re all the time capable of inform him the reality: which is that I’m in love with a man who does that sport on that precise discipline,” Swift continued. “Like, [football] is violent chess. That’s gladiators with out swords. That’s harmful. I’m, [for] the entire season, locked in on what that man is doing on the sector. Are you able to think about if he’s on the market each single week, placing his life on the road, doing this very harmful, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I’m like, ‘I ponder what my choreo must be? I believe we must always do two verses of “Shake It Up,” into “Clean Area,” into “Merciless Summer time,” that might be nice!’
“This has nothing to do with Travis — he would love for me to do it. However I’m simply too locked in,” Swift added.
Elsewhere throughout her look on The Tonight Present, Swift mentioned her proposal to Travis Kelce, Selena Gomez’s marriage ceremony, her music video for “The Fate of Ophelia,” her love of One Battle After Another, and extra. She additionally broke down a number of lyrics to her new album The Life of a Showgirl.
.@taylorswift13 addresses rumors that she turned down the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present 👀 #TaylorOnFallon #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/ZPFIpozZ1J
— The Tonight Present (@FallonTonight) October 7, 2025
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