Heidi Gardner is opening up about her time with Travis Kelce when he was the Saturday Night Live host in March 2023, following the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl
The SNL castmember come by Today with Hoda & & Jenna on Friday, where she went over how she at first recommended to Lorne Michaels that Kelce host the sketch funny series before he succeeded, with the hosts joking that Gardner enjoyed him before Taylor Swift did.
As a Kansas City, Missouri, native, the comic informed Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager she was “really protective” of the Chiefs tight end. She included, “I asked him concerns, which likewise, as a sports fan, I’m simply thinking about, however I resembled, ‘On video game day, what do you consume?’ And he resembled, ‘Uncrustables. I’m simply pounding Uncrustables.'”
On the day of the hosting gigthe Diminishing starlet informed the early morning program hosts that she went to the shop and purchased a lot of Uncrustables for Kelce to treat on. “I resembled, ‘I desire this to feel as just like home as it can,'” she stated.
She shared that when the 2 of them were practicing for a sketch in which they were depending on bed together (“Sorry, Taylor,” she joked), he revealed his gratitude for the present.
“He leaned over into me ideal before illuminate on the scene, and he resembled, ‘I’ve been consuming the Uncrustables throughout the day.’ And I resembled, ‘Cool,'” she stated, including that she believed he “won SNLand did “such an excellent task.”