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Travis Kelce recalled hosting Saturday Night Live in 2023 and opened up about the fact that the preparation for it was difficult because he’s not the strongest reader. Kelce is 35 years old and has a reported net worth of about $90 million.
During a recent podcast interview, the future Hall of Fame Kansas City Chiefs tight end recalled hosting Saturday Night Live in March 2023 alongside musical guest Kelsea Ballerini.
According to Kelce, the table read — which is when all of the cast gets together to read through the script together — was an “F’d situation” because he ‘no reads too good’ (we’re paraphrasing here).
Ironically enough, another of Kelce’s recent Hollywood gigs was hosting a reboot of the gameshow Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, retooled as Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?.
“The writers’ rooms were fun because you’re just getting pitched ideas. The table reading, for a guy that can’t really read that well, it was kind of a f—– situation,” Kelce said on Bussin’ with the Boys podcast.
“I felt like I was just trying to get through the reading instead of actually acting it out and giving it a voice and giving it a character and things like that. I was just focused on, ‘Don’t f—— skip this line,’” he said of his actual performance.
“There was still a sense of like, ‘I need to be a professional here. I want to take advantage of this, but I want to have fun doing it, but I don’t want to look like a loser doing this. I want to make them respect my approach and how I’m like taking it serious. But it was just a fun roller coaster, man.”
One of the more underrated parts of being an actor — which Kelce is seemingly flirting with as a post-football career — is that there is quite a bit of reading involved, so if he’s hoping to have a career in that industry, he better brush up on his ABCs.
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