{"id":1999614,"date":"2025-09-05T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1999614"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:46:50","slug":"why-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-wont-be-at-the-2025-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-wont-be-at-the-2025-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Won\u2019t Be at the 2025 VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"2.0\">Taylor Swift won\u2019t return to the red carpet this year for the MTV VMAs on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.1\">The star last attended the show in 2024.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.2\">For the 2025 ceremony, Swift has one nomination for Artist of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Taylor Swift is opting to stay off the awards show circuit and skip this year\u2019s MTV VMAs in Elmont, New York. The singer will not make an appearance on the red carpet of the buzzy music event on Sunday, <em data-node-id=\"4.1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1422038\/taylor-swift-not-attending-mtv-vmas-2025\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1422038\/taylor-swift-not-attending-mtv-vmas-2025\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"E!\" data-node-id=\"4.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">E!<\/a> <\/em>reports<em data-node-id=\"4.3\"\/>.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Swift\u2019s choice is understandable, as she was up for just one category this year\u2014but a major one: Artist of the Year. Next year will likely be even bigger for the star, as her upcoming album <em data-node-id=\"5.1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a65654090\/taylor-swift-new-album-news-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a65654090\/taylor-swift-new-album-news-release\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Life of a Showgirl\" data-node-id=\"5.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> <\/em>comes out on October 3 and will be eligible for awards. <\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-12\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Her fianc\u00e9, Travis Kelce, will also likely miss the VMAs because the Kansas City Chiefs are playing the Los Angeles Chargers in S\u00e3o Paolo, Brazil tonight, September 5. It\u2019s still unclear if Swift will be in attendance. <\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-13\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Swift spoke on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65791060\/taylor-swift-new-heights-podcast-appearance-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65791060\/taylor-swift-new-heights-podcast-appearance-takeaways\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Kelce\u2019s New Heights podcast\" data-node-id=\"9.1\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">Kelce\u2019s <em data-node-id=\"9.1.1\">New Heights <\/em>podcast<\/a> last month about how she has been spending her time off tour. <em data-node-id=\"9.3\">(<\/em>She finished her Eras Tour in December 2024.)<em data-node-id=\"9.5\"><br data-node-id=\"9.5.0\"\/><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">\u201cIt\u2019s great because I\u2019m getting my hobbies back,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I was on tour, all I had the bandwidth for was, \u2018What\u2019s the acoustic mashup this week? How do I say welcome to the Eras Tour in Portuguese?\u2019 That was the only thing taking up my brain space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Kelce cut in, subtly revealing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65792258\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-living-together-reveal-new-heights\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65792258\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-living-together-reveal-new-heights\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"he and Swift are living together\" data-node-id=\"11.1\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">he and Swift are living together<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been so fun to see what Taylor actually gets into around the house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">\u201cIt\u2019s like I\u2019d say all my hobbies could be categorized as hobbies you could have had in the 1700s. I get all my granny shit,\u201d she said, citing sewing and baking among her favorite activities. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">\u201cI love to paint. I love to cook. I have a different baking obsession every six months,\u201d she continued. \u201cRight now, we\u2019re very deep in a sourdough obsession that has taken over my life.\u201d <\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-yj5rqk e94w1mj9\">\n<h6 class=\"css-12xbh4x e94w1mj7\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj5\">More on Taylor Swift<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p1\"\/><\/h6>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN Taylor Swift won\u2019t return to the red carpet this year for the MTV VMAs on Sunday. The star last attended the show in 2024. For the 2025 ceremony, Swift has one nomination for Artist of the Year. Taylor Swift is opting to stay off the awards show circuit and skip this year\u2019s MTV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1999615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[274717,363100,285977,285684,363099],"class_list":["post-1999614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-11f1ae4a-20a1-4713-87b6-a09f03aea6a6","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wont-be-at-the-vmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Why-Taylor-Swift-and-Travis-Kelce-Wont-Be-at-the.pjpeg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}