{"id":2004828,"date":"2025-09-07T23:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2004828"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:06:22","slug":"why-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-are-skipping-tonights-vmas-despite-her-major-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-are-skipping-tonights-vmas-despite-her-major-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Skipping Tonight&#8217;s VMAs, Despite Her Major Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<hr class=\"my-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce aren\u2019t attending tonight\u2019s MTV VMAs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swift last attended the show in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the 2025 ceremony, Swift has one nomination for Artist of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"my-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor Swift is opting to stay off the awards show circuit and skip this year\u2019s MTV VMAs in Elmont, New York. Ahead of the buzzy music event, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1422038\/taylor-swift-not-attending-mtv-vmas-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:E!;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">E!<\/a> confirmed the singer will not be at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a65654090\/taylor-swift-new-album-news-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Life of a Showgirl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> comes out on October 3 and will be eligible for awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her fianc\u00e9, Travis Kelce, is also expected to miss the VMAs because the Kansas City Chiefs just played the Los Angeles Chargers in S\u00e3o Paolo, Brazil, on September 5. Swift <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a66000369\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-first-nfl-game-brazil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:didn\u2019t attend the game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">didn\u2019t attend the game<\/a> and has been out of the public eye this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swift spoke on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65791060\/taylor-swift-new-heights-podcast-appearance-takeaways\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kelce\u2019s New Heights podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kelce\u2019s New Heights podcast<\/a> last month about how she has been spending her time off tour. (She finished her Eras Tour in December 2024.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he and Swift are living together;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>You Might Also Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\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.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce aren\u2019t attending tonight\u2019s MTV VMAs. Swift 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 VMAs in Elmont, New York. Ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2004829,"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":[25173],"tags":[21851,339290,344855,23084,190738],"class_list":["post-2004828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-mtv-vmas","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Why-Taylor-Swift-and-Travis-Kelce-Are-Skipping-Tonights-VMAs.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004828","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=2004828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}