Taylor Swift, Sophie Turner and Ryan Reynolds send ticket sales surging for New York-Kansas NFL game
Taylor Swift has returned to the NFL stands in support of her rumoured-beau – bringing a star-studded entourage with her.
Swift is rumoured to be dating Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce, with the pair being spotted together after last weekend’s round of NFL matches.
Her much-hyped presence in the stands this weekend sent ticket sales soaring for the Kansas City Chiefs game against New York Jets, with purchases in a single day more than doubling the previous record for this season so far, StubHub said.
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Last weekend, she made a surprise appearance in Kansas, to join Kelce’s mother at the game, with cameras pointing at her for almost the entire match.
Clips of her drinking, celebrating, and shouting immediately went viral, as did images of her driving away with Kelce at the end of the night.
Swift’s fanbase, known as Swifties, mobilised in the hours and days after her appearance, buying-up Kelce’s replica shirt and circulating videos helping each other learn the rules of American Football.
Joining Swift in New Jersey as she watched her new flame on Sunday night was Ryan Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively, as well as new divorcees Hugh Jackman and Sophie Turner.
It’s widely reported Turner, who has split from pop-star Joe Jonas, is currently staying in Swift’s New York flat while she stays in the city to finalise her divorce. The pair have both dated, and split, from Jonas.
Swift is good friends with model Lively, while Reynolds and Jackman have paused filming the next Deadpool film due to the ongoing Hollywood actors strike.
Jackman and his ex-wife also split last month, after more than two decades of marriage.
Taylor Swift, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. Pic: AP
Taylor Swift arriving for the NFL game between Kansas and the New York Jets. Pic: USA Today via Reuters
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Also spotted with Swift at the Metlife Stadium, which she played for three nights in a row in May, was fellow musician Sabrina Carpenter, who has been opening for the mega-star on the South America leg of her tour.
In the game’s build-up on NBC (owned by Sky’s parent company, Comcast), host of the US version of The Voice Carson Daly made an appearance to explain the rules of the game to the Swifties who had likely tuned in.
“We all know this is not just any Sunday Night Football game,” Daly said, adding: “We got a call from our friends at NBC Sports asking us to put tonight’s story in language that the legions of Swifties would understand.”
He went on to talk about the game, while peppering in Swift’s song titles, ending with: “Welcome To New York”.
Swift nor Kelce have publicly revealed if they’re in a relationship – but the latter did remark on a podcast with his brother that she looked “amazing” at the game last week, adding: “Shout out to Taylor for coming through and seeing me rock the stage.”
A woman who was charged with selling Friends star Matthew Parry the dose of the drug that killed him has agreed to plead guilty.
Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen”, is the fifth and final defendant to strike a plea deal with prosecutors, avoiding a trial that was set to take place in September.
The 42-year-old agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
She agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a dual US and UK national, as a prolific drug dealer known to her customers as the “Ketamine Queen”, often using the term in court documents and even including it in the official name of the case.
Actor Matthew Perry in 2015. File pic: Reuters
She agreed to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Sangha will officially change her plea to guilty at an upcoming hearing, where sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said.
Dr. Mark Chavez, a physician from San Diego, who is charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose. Pic: AP
She is facing up to 45 years in prison.
Sangha and a doctor named Salvador Plasencia, who signed his own plea deal in June, had been the primary targets of the investigation.
Three other defendants – Mark Chavez, who it was claimed bought the drug from Sangha, Kenneth Iwamasa, and Erik Flemin – agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation, which included statements implicating Sangha and Plasencia.
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Prosecutors allege Chavez funnelled ketamine to Plasencia, securing some of the drug from a wholesale distributor through a fraudulent prescription.
In one instance, prosecutors allege that Plasencia “charged Perry $2,000 (£1,500) a vial that cost Dr Chavez approximately $12 (£9)”.
Perry died in his home in October 2023, aged 54, after getting ketamine from his regular doctor for treatment of depression, which is an increasingly common use for the surgical anaesthetic.
The actor was taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to court documents.
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An Ozzy Osbourne documentary has disappeared from the BBC’s schedule without explanation.
The film was billed by producers as “a moving and inspirational account” of the last chapter of the metal legend’s life.
It was meant to air at 9pm on Monday on BBC One – as well as be available on iPlayer – but an episode of Fake Or Fortune? has replaced it.
Sky News has contacted the BBC for comment on why the programme, called Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, has been pulled.
The project was filmed over three years as Ozzy and his family returned to the UK, and was initially conceived as a series entitled Home to Roost.
However, as the singer’s health got worse it morphed into a one-off.
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The BBC reported the show would reveal the “extraordinary rollercoaster” of the Osbournes’ lives as Ozzy tries “heroically” to get fit enough to perform again.
It’s said to feature “unique and intimate access” to the family, including Ozzy’s children, Jack and Kelly, who appeared in the reality series that made them household names in the early 2000s.
The Black Sabbath frontman, who had Parkinson’s disease, died last month – just a few weeks after his final all-star gig at Birmingham’s Villa Park.
Fans packed the city centre and chanted his name when his hearse passed through on 30 July.
His wife, Sharon, was in tears as she got out to see the mass of flowers left for him at “Sabbath Bridge”.
The New York Times said his death certificate gave the cause as cardiac arrest, but the family hasn’t commented.
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