Grayson Waller looks back on his feud with Swifties.
The battle between Grayson Waller and Swifties made several headlines in October 2023, with Waller throwing the first verbal shot. According to Waller, NFL star Travis Kelce is settling for music star Taylor Swift, whom he considers to be a “six” on a scale of one to ten. After fans of Swift, known as Swifties, then flooded his social media with outcries, Waller told them to “shake it off,” much like Swift’s 2014 single. To further annoy the fanbase, he mockingly wore an Eras Tour t-shirt to a WWE live event.
While appearing on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Waller reflected on his rivalry with the Swifties.
“That was a beautiful thing,” he said, “and it was just like, it’s funny what we do. We talk for an hour today. You don’t know what the 10 seconds of this interview are that people are going to latch on to, and the same with any interview. I just made a joke on The Bump that if Travis Kelce is happy settling for a six, good for him, which is funny. That’s a great line. I was pretty happy with that, but I didn’t even think about it until all of a sudden, I have these cringe mums on TikTok who don’t spend time with their kids doing videos on me about how ugly I am. And they were saying some wild stuff, like Swiftie fans are mean.
“There was one lady who was talking about how I had no lips,” he continued. “Never in my life have I thought about not having lips, and I’m looking at the mirror like, do I not have lips? They got my head a little bit. But I doubled down on it too, because I think people get stressed about when you annoy the fan base, especially the Swifties. But I doubled down on it because it was so fun. They were so angry and so upset.”
Waller Encounters Travis Kelce & Taylor Swift
In a twist of fate, Waller later encountered Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift while at a party in Nashville, Tennessee.
According to Waller, WWE stars Sheamus, Bayley, and himself were invited by NFL tight end George Kittle to the party, where he discovered the presence of both Kelce and Swift. In the back of his mind, Waller then wondered if the couple were aware of his previous disses against them. Fortunately for him, they didn’t seem to be.
“Obviously, there’s just all these well-known people. They all know Sheamus,” Waller said. “Obviously, he’s pale, so it’s like you get this bright light in the corner of your eye, like you’re opening up the fridge. So it’s kind of painful for a second. So they’re all coming up and talking to him, and then Kelce comes up,” Waller said. “Here we go. He was super nice, [John] Cena-esque. I’ll give him Cena-esque in the sense. He didn’t have to come over and chat to us. Super chill. Chatted to us for a bit. I was like, ‘Hey, man, Jason’s done some stuff. When are we getting you coming in?’ He’s like football first type of thing. So he was really cool.”
Admittedly, Waller was prepared for the possibility of fighting Travis Kelce on scene that night. As the event came to a close, however, he appeared to become a fan of both him and Swift.
“Didn’t get to meet Taylor officially. She did walk past me at some stage, and I had to move and go, ‘Oh, sorry.’ And she said, ‘Thank you.’ So I think that’s the reconciliation,” Waller said. “A good sister, too. She was just up there. I guess in my head, I thought, Taylor Swift, she can have all this security around all this. She was just sinking beers with the boys, just hanging upstairs. I was like, she’s good, good for her. There we go, reconciliation. I think the circle’s done. The circle’s finished. I was like, any, any girl who’s that famous, who just sits drinking with the boys and then goes down and does a song on the fly, that’s good.”
Kelce and Swift began dating in 2023. In August 2025, they got engaged.
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