Hugh Grant was “absolutely smashed” with Travis Kelce at the Taylor Swift show

Hugh Grant has talked about doing Tequila shoots with Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, during her Era’s Tour show at Wembley this summer. You can watch the full video interview above.

In June, Swift’s record-breaking live behemoth landed in the UK for a series of dates across the country. As well as a legion of fans, Swift was spotted by a host of celebrities – including Hugh Grant.

Going to social media after the show, Grant wrote: “Dear Taylor, you have an incredible show, an amazing and (very) hospitable team, and an excellent, if gigantic boyfriend. Many thanks from an aging London boy, wife and excited 8-year-old.”

Talks about the experience in a new interview with NMEGrant revealed that his daughter is a huge Swifite – so he “put some feelers out” to his team about getting tickets. “To my surprise, (Swift and her team) said, ‘Come on in.'”

Grant went on to say that his daughter and her friend “bopped away” during the show while he hung out with Swift’s American football player boyfriend Travis Kelce in a VIP area. “We were doing the Tequila shoot. We were totally blown away,” he explained. “I thoroughly enjoyed it.”

In response to Grant’s first tweet on June 23 after the show, Swift wrote: “As long as Hugh Grant lives, this tweet is very important to my culture.” Grant told NME it was “extremely nice” to hear Swift was a fan. “She and her team are very hospitable and it’s a great show.”

As a long time Hugh Grant stan, this tweet is very important to my culture

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) 24 June 2024

Read the rest of our chat with Grant below, where he reflects on covering Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ as part of his role in new horror film Heretical – and explains why he’s just not that into music.

Hi Hugh, tell us about singing Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in your new film Heretical?

Hugh Grant: “I’m not doing very well. I think it’s a very difficult song to sing. I did some research and they kind of hate it. One of them sketched it, they recorded it, and they never really bothered to put proper lyrics on (that) they liked. Everyone loved it and called for it at every Radiohead concert. Very difficult to sing. I didn’t break it.”

Was this the first time you really heard it?

“I’m not cool at all, but even I’ve heard ‘Creep’.”

Did you end up going down a Radiohead rabbit hole?

“I didn’t. I don’t think Radiohead was my character Mr Reed’s cup of tea. I had him down as more of a Bach man. He’s proud to be down with the kids though. I think he was a fairly successful, trendy professor at a Midwestern university in the late 80s and early 90s, so he’s good at making youth-friendly references that way, but in the privacy of his own room, it’s Bach and Beethoven.”

Mr. Reed also mentions ‘The Air That I Breathe’ by The Hollies, who famously sued Radiohead because of how much ‘Creep’ sounded like it…

“And then Lana Del Rey came out with her song ‘Get Free’ (which is also in Heretical), and she was sued. However, I can’t hear any similarities between the three songs.”

It’s an interesting topic isn’t it – have you done more research?

“No, but it is interesting because you also see it in films. When I studied English at university there was a whole discussion about what is plagiarism, what is homage and what is completely random? I tried to write a book once. I had about half a novel and thought it was pretty good. I looked at it again a year later and realized it was a rip-off of, I won’t tell you which book, but I didn’t even realize I did. So sometimes it’s random.”

You’ve said in previous interviews that you’re not into music like other people are…

“I’ve been a freak all my life. When I was in school, every Thursday morning New Musical Express came out and every boy in the class had a copy. You were nobody if you didn’t. It was either that or Melody maker. You had to have it… and I never had it. Wasn’t interested. I tried to be interested though. I went to a couple of concerts. I remember going to Soft Machine. I saw Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I went to an Elton John concert at Watford Football Ground. He was supported by Rod Stewart and Nazareth, so it must have been quite early (in his career).

“At least I couldn’t concentrate because I was smoking 20 Player’s No. 6 cigarettes, which were the cheapest steaks you could get at the time. I just felt so sick. For some reason I never got into music. There is something wrong with me. I just don’t enjoy the experience.”

And yet you tweeted about attending a Taylor Swift concert this summer?

“Well now that’s my cup of tea. It’s my daughter who’s mad at Taylor Swift. I’m a great dad. I’m a great person. I put some feelers out and to my amazement they said ‘come on’ , and I thoroughly enjoyed it. She went crazy. She took a friend and I hung out with Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, who is an American football player. We did Tequila shots at the back of these kind of shacks in the middle of Wembley – and there was a bunch of, I think, rappers. I don’t know what they were, but we were all totally smashed at Tequila.”

And Taylor replied to you: ‘As Hugh Grant has stood for a long time, this tweet is very important to my culture’. That’s pretty nice, isn’t it?

“It’s extremely lovely. Her and her team, very hospitable – and it’s a brilliant show.”

It was also recently announced that Oasis are reuniting. As a king of 90s movies, you must have come across the Gallagher brothers at some point?

“My 90s girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley was best friends with Patsy Kensit, who was going out with Liam Gallagher. So we ended up having some odd nights out. What an odd foursome.”

‘Heretic’ opens in UK cinemas on November 1