Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding secrets have been spilled by guest Greg James as he gushed he ‘had the best night… probably ever’.
The BBC Radio 1 DJ was among the 1,000 guests invited to the epic Madison Square Garden nuptials on Friday night, and on Wednesday he finally returned to his Breakfast Show to reveal all in a Q&A with his team and Swifties who called in.
Greg confessed he had been lying to his friends, family and fans for months, revealing he had received his wedding invite in mid-March and only told his wife, author Bella Mackie, who was also invited.
The one other person Greg could discuss the big day with was fellow guest Graham Norton.
The chatshow host and Greg were coincidentally booked on the same episode of This Morning shortly after they received their invites, where they held a whispered conversation in the dressing room.
Greg revealed that they then arranged to have a dinner alongside his wife Bella and Graham’s husband Jono McLeod, laughing: ‘We arranged to have a secret, under the cover of darkness dinner. It was like The Traitors meeting in the tower.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding secrets have been spilled by guest Greg James as he gushed he ‘had the best night… probably ever’
The BBC Radio 1 DJ and his wife Bella Mackie were among the 1,000 guests invited to the epic Madison Square Garden nuptials on Friday night
‘We were going to go to a restaurant and he messaged to say “maybe not a restaurant” so we had a secret dinner round his house to talk about it. We had this dinner and were like “what’s happening, where even is this wedding?”.
At the wedding itself, Greg revealed he hung out with fellow British guests, pointing out: ‘The Brits gravitate towards each other in any situation like that, and at one point it was me and Bella, and Hugh Grant and his wife and we were watching proceedings happen.
He added that with such an array of guests invited ‘every ten seconds’ he was star struck, pointing out: ‘It was a room full of the most famous people in the world.
‘I just couldn’t believe it. It was like going to Madame Tussauds but the wax was animated and you could interact with wax and it talked back to you, it was absolutely mad… I had a few wees next to some NFL players.’
Sharing tidbits from the big day, Greg explained that while there wasn’t a sit down dinner, the food was ‘unlimited’, adding that there were ‘multiple cakes’.
He also joked that the ‘first 10,000 drinks were free’ which led to an ‘incredible hangover’.
He added: ‘There was an open invitation to get up onto the stage and dance while the DJ was on, and so I did.’
He told listeners that despite the sheer number of guests he did manage to briefly chat to the happy couple, explaining: ‘I did speak to Taylor and Travis, but on a wedding, you know the bride and groom are very busy, so imagine that but the bride and groom are Travis and Taylor.’
He added that he didn’t want to divulge too much more about the day itself, as ‘I don’t want to be the guy that ruins this for everyone and then Taylor never speaks to me again.’
Greg revealed he hung out with fellow British guests, pointing out: ‘The Brits gravitate towards each other in any situation like that, and at one point it was me and Hugh Grant and his wife’
Greg also revealed that contrary to rumours about watermarked invites, all of his communication about the wedding was electronic.
Taylor invited the Radio 1 DJ live on air in October and he has now revealed he received his official invite in mid-March.
‘This is how long I’ve been lying to you,’ he apologised. ‘The invitation arrived on my phone in the form of a link in the middle of the night when I was trying to get some sleep in Weymouth, during a storm when I had a really upset stomach.’
Greg explained that he was staying in a Weymouth hotel on March 12, the night before starting his Comic Relief cycle challenge.
‘I was going to the bathroom and I turned my phone on and this link came through saying “you have been invited to the wedding”,’ he revealed.
‘It was the night before the Comic Relief challenge and I had to sit with it all week. I turned my phone off and had to be like “I can’t deal with that right now, I’m about to cycle a 1,000km on a tandem”.’
Greg said the only person he told that week about the invite was his wife who calmly told him “you can’t focus on that now, we will deal with that in July”.
‘So it was during an almighty storm and an almighty storm in my stomach… That was the unglamorous place I received it… All I wanted to do was shout it and tell everyone but you don’t want to be that guy that ruins it all.’
After telling his BBC bosses he was taking annual leave, he also told a white lie to organisers of the Crosswires podcast festival he was at on Thursday night.
‘I couldn’t tell the people at the festival why I couldn’t do the rest of the weekend. I went “something’s come up”. I think they assumed it was to do with my dad not being very well so that felt bad! I can’t use him as an excuse!’
Greg and his wife Bella met up with fellow guest Graham Norton before the wedding, laughing that their secret dinner ‘was like The Traitors meeting in the tower’
Greg did concede that the lack of a paper invite made him suspicious that he was part of some Radio 1 prank, admitting: ‘Honestly until we were in there, there was a huge part… Bella and I were like “this could be a scam” until we were in we were like “we might have made a big trip for nothing here”.’
The Radio 1 star scored his invite months after Taylor, who he has interviewed multiple times over the years, told him live on his show that he would be there.
After Greg joked that he wanted to meet her NFL star beau Travis, Taylor laughed that he’d get the chance at the wedding, telling him he was ‘obviously’ invited.
Taking to his Instagram Stories on Saturday, Greg revealed he had indeed been at the star-studded celebration after fans wondered if he made the guest list.
After skipping his Radio 1 show on Friday, Greg had insisted to listeners he was busy in Sheffield for a live recording of his Bad Chat podcast at the Crossed Wires festival. In fact, he had jumped on a flight across the Atlantic to make it in time for Taylor’s evening nuptials.
Sharing a photo of a slice of pizza the morning after, he joked: ‘I am currently experiencing the world’s greatest hangover and unable to reply to the hilarious number of messages I have received over the last 24hrs.
‘But just to say: true to her word, of course the invitation arrived and I couldn’t tell anyone. And oh my God, what an unbelievably brilliant night. I’m off for a nap.’
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