Shaq shocks Travis Kelce with Taylor Swift surprise on ‘New Heights’ podcast

The NBA Hall of Famer and basketball analyst joins the Kelce bros on their podcast where he drops some Swiftie love on her boyfriend.

Recording artist Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) react after the AFC Championship game against the Buffalo Bills at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

Shaquille O’Neal never ceases to amaze with his antics and crazy stories. Whether it’s dropping the F-bomb on live TV for the last TNT Inside the NBA show, or wrestling Charles Barkley while towering over John Cena in the studio, or revealing his love for Taylor Swift songs, as well as his Super Bowl meeting with her is par for the course for him, but awesome for us.

It’s hard to believe the 7-foot-1, 300+-pound NBA Hall of Famer is 53 now. The man known simply as Shaq — or many other nicknames like “The Big Diesel” — won four NBA championships with three of those coming with the late Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.

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A moment in time: Shaq being Shaq around Kobe | Shaq/Instagram

He’s always had a big personality and parlayed that into the hit NBA show as a basketball analyst. He showed that same personality on a podcast episode of “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce”, where he showed off his “favorite” song and sang along to Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble.”

We knew @SHAQ could jam, but not like that 😅

TOMORROW. THE SHAQ EPISODE. pic.twitter.com/0Rtq4OfZ3D

— New Heights (@newheightshow) June 4, 2025

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Who knew the Big Fella was a Swiftie?

The Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce is of course dating Swift and mentioned how she just bought back the rights to all her original music and thanked Shaq for that moment.

On his own “The Big Podcast with Shaq”, he also revealed how he met Swift at the Super Bowl and how a “fine as f***” Ice Spice was there, too.

Shaq talks about meeting Taylor at the Super Bowl pic.twitter.com/Cii2ZKRZxj

— 🏈👑 | fan acct. (@TayvisHaze) June 4, 2025

Leave it to Shaq for these kind of moments. After all, he’s “The Big Entertainer.”

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