Sept. 6, 2026

Meet Wendy: the Dog They Kept Secret for a Year, Travis on What the Wedding Was Really Like, and the Emmys Against Kickoff

Show Notes
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have a dog, and after more than a year of keeping her under wraps, Wendy has arrived — a white Samoyed who made her public debut lounging on a sofa at the Plaza Hotel in Tommy Hilfiger's Fall 2026 campaign. Travis confirmed her name on New Heights and told Vogue she "crushed it." Lyla gets into the reveal, the name theories, and what Travis has now said about the wedding two months on, including why a thousand guests at Madison Square Garden still felt intimate. Below the fold: 🐕 Wendy is a little over a year old. When Hilfiger's team floated casting a dog, Travis volunteered his own — "we figured, why not her?" She appears alongside Carmelo Anthony, Frances Tiafoe, Jisoo, Gigi Hadid and Peggy Gou.

📸 The secret nearly held. Travis says they "got sniped at the airport" — paparazzi caught Wendy coming off their jet.

💍 Travis on the wedding: no phones allowed, so everyone was present. He thanked Adam Sandler for getting ordained in New York to officiate, "Sand-man style."

🏈 A scheduling collision on September 14 — awards night in LA, Chiefs season opener in Kansas City.

👗 Two months on, still no wedding dress photos.

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Hey, everyone. I'm Lila, and welcome back to Taylor Swift Today.

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We have finally cracked a mystery that has been teasing

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us for months, and the answer is the most adorable

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thing you will hear all week. Plus... Travis opened up

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with some sweet new details about the wedding. Taylor is

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up for a major award, and next week she is

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facing what I can only describe as an impossible choice.

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Lots of good stuff, so let's get into it. Let's

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start with the one you have been waiting for. Taylor

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and Travis have a dog, a real, confirmed, ridiculously fluffy dog.

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And this week, Travis finally spilled all the details on

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his New Heights podcast, which Her name is Wendy. She

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is a white Samoyed. She is a little over a

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year old, and the couple had quietly been keeping her

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under wraps this whole time. And here is the truly

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delightful part. Wendy did not just get revealed with some

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casual photo. She made her public debut as a fashion model.

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That is right. Wendy stars alongside Travis in a brand

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new campaign for Tommy Hilfiger, lounging on a fancy sofa

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on the rooftop of the Plaza Hotel in New York,

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while Travis poses in a peacoat and turtleneck. Apparently the

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brand was looking to cast a dog for the shoot,

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and Travis just volunteered his own. He told Vogue that

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she absolutely crushed it and fit the aesthetic perfectly, calling her,

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and I quote, a model dog. He gushed that she

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lights up his day and joked that they now need

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to get her some Tommy Hilfiger outfits in her size.

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A supermodel dog. This family, I swear. Now, longtime listeners,

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I need you to have a little flashback moment with

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me because we actually saw this coming. Remember months ago

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when Jason Kelsey accidentally let it slip on a podcast

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that Travis had bought these ridiculous, expensive green velvet couches?

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and then admitted that one of them had a hole

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chewed in the back because Travis, quote, just got a puppy.

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We talked about that. The clue was sitting right there

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the whole time. Wendy is the couch culprit. The puppy

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has been hiding in plain sight for over a year,

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and honestly, I respect a secrecy. And of course, being Swifties,

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we have to decode the name because nothing these two

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do is random. There are two lovely theories that The

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first is that Wendy could be named after Wendy Peffercorn,

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the lifeguard character from the classic 90s movie The Sandlot,

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who Travis has said was his childhood crush. And the

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second is that Wendy is a nod to the character

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Wendy from Peter Pan, who Taylor has referenced in her

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own music over the years. So whether the name came

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from his side or her side, it is a sweet

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little piece of both of them. Wendy Swift Kelsey, welcome

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to the world. You are already more famous than most people.

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Speaking of Travis opening up, he also used that same

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podcast to share some genuinely touching reflections on the wedding itself.

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Now that he has had a couple of months to

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sit with it. And what struck me is how he

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described it. Even with a thousand guests inside Madison Square Garden,

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he insisted it felt intimate. He called the whole thing magical,

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said it was a night he will never forget, and

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thanked the staff at MSG for helping them create a private,

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genuine setting without a lot of distractions. He talked about

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how special it was that there were no phones allowed

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because it forced everyone to just be present in the moment, together, together.

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He loved watching friends from his childhood and Taylors mingle

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with people they had met all across their careers. And

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he gave the sweetest shout out to Adam Sandler, thanking

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him for actually getting officially ordained in the state of

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New York so he could marry them, in Travis's words,

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Sandman style. You can just hear how happy he still

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is about all of it. Two months later and the

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groom is still glowing. When we come back, Taylor is

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up for a big award next week, but the timing

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has created a genuine dilemma for our newlyweds. Stay with me.

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Welcome back. So here is a story with real stakes attached.

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Taylor Swift is officially an Emmy nominee. Her concert film,

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The Heiress Tour, the final show, which came out on

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Disney +, landed a whopping five Emmy nominations. And Taylor

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herself is personally nominated in the big category, Outstanding Variety Special,

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recognized as both a performer and a producer on the project.

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This would be only her... second Emmy ever, her first

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in over a decade. And in a fun little full

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circle twist, the ceremony is being hosted by the actress

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Mariska Hargitay, who, if you remember, was actually a guest

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at Taylor and Travis's wedding. The Swift universe is truly

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all connected. But here is where it gets complicated, and

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this is the impossible choice I mentioned. The Emmy Awards

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are happening on Monday, September 14th in Los Angeles. And

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that exact same night, all the way across the country

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in Kansas City, Travis and the Chiefs are playing their

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very first game of the new NFL season against the

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Denver Broncos. So Taylor has a real decision to make.

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Does she walk the Emmy carpet in LA to celebrate

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her own historic nomination as a performer and a producer

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for the biggest tour in history? Or does she fly

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to Kansas City to cheer on her husband from the

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stands as he kicks off what many believe could be

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his final season? Honestly, I do not envy that choice.

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Both of those things matter enormously. My gut says our

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girl finds a way to prioritize supporting Travis, but Because

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if there is one thing we have learned about her

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this year, it is that she is all in on

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being a football wife. But an Emmy is an Emmy.

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We will find out next week. Either way, whatever she chooses,

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someone is getting cheered on very loudly. And that little

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scheduling clash actually points to the bigger picture of newlywed

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life right now. Because the honest truth is, married life

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during football season means Taylor and Travis are spending real

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time apart. Reports say that with Travis back in the

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grind of the NFL, the two of them are no

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longer seeing each other every single day the way they

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did in that dreamy stretch before the wedding. Now, some

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outlets have tried to spin this as trouble, and I

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am just not going to play that game because when

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you actually look at the details, it is really a

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story about two people with Two enormous careers who love

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what they do and support each other completely. They have

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made a point of seeing each other every week without fail.

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They call, they text, they FaceTime constantly. And apparently, when

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Taylor is traveling, Travis sends her flowers, her favorites, roses

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and orchids. Meanwhile, Taylor has been keeping herself busy in

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the best way, jet-setting between LA, New York, and London,

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campaigning for that Emmy-nominated film, and, according to sources, quietly

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working on new music and even a new documentary. Sources

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close to her say she misses their morning workouts and

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cooking together, which, same, that is just what it is

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to be newly married to someone with a demanding job.

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But by every account, she refuses to complain because she

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knew exactly what she was signing up for and she

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wants to support Travis having his best possible season. That

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is not a marriage in trouble. That is a marriage

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that is figuring out its rhythm with a whole lot

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of grace. Oh, and one more fun little nugget on

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the real estate front. It came out this week through

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Property Record's. that Travis quietly bought a gorgeous historic lakefront

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mansion near his hometown of Cleveland back in the spring

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before the wedding. We are talking a 21,000 square foot,

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130-year-old estate right on Lake Erie with a ballroom and everything.

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Travis is famously proud of his Cleveland roots, and it

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just adds to what is now a truly staggering combined

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real estate collection between the two of them. When you

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have that much love and that many houses, you will

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always have somewhere cozy to reunite. And finally, you know,

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I have to say it, the dress. Still nothing. We

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are now two full months out from the wedding and

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Taylor has still not shared a single official photo. She

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has not even posted on Instagram in ages. She is

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clearly in her own world right now, living her life

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on her own terms and her own timeline. But when

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that photo finally comes, oh, it is going to be

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a moment. So there is your week. The secret puppy

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is out of the bag and she is a supermodel.

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Travis is still glowing about his magical wedding. Taylor made

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Emmy history and our newlyweds are navigating real life with

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real love. Not bad at all. That is our show.

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I'm Lila. And buckle up because September is stacked. The

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Emmys are Monday the 14th and then the VMAs are

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September 27th, where Taylor is one win away from making history.

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So keep those votes coming. Leave me a comment on

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Spotify and tell me if you were Taylor, would you

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go to the Emmys or would you be in the

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stands for Travis's first game? I genuinely cannot decide. Turn

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your notifications on because with awards season and that wedding

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dress looming, something big is coming. Find us on Facebook too.

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friend who needs to meet Wendy. Thanks so much for

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hanging out with me today. I'm Lila and I will

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see you next time.