By Bronte Gossling|
This is not a drill! Travis Kelce has landed on Australian soil.
We repeat, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has touched down in Sydney ahead of his girlfriend Taylor Swift's four Accor Stadium shows this weekend.
The NFL star officially put weeks of speculation over his Australia trip to rest when his private jet landed at Sydney Airport this morning, having landed around 8.53am AEDT.
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He was meant to land at 8.30am, but the jet had to circle around off the coast due to the weather for 20 minutes for a smooth landing.
Swift's security team was waiting for the sporting hero, who was whisked away almost immediately after he disembarked the private jet into an SUV that was waiting on the tarmac. Swift was not seen at the airport to greet the Super Bowl champion.
Kelce's arrival came hours after TMZ first reported Kelce had hopped on a private jet on Wednesday morning (overnight in Australia) to make it Down Under just in time for Swift's first Sydney show this Friday.
Kelce has been quite the jetsetter in the last few days alone, with the NFL star being spotted playing golf in Las Vegas on Monday (Tuesday in Australia), then Los Angeles and Hawaii.
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Swift, meanwhile, has been spotted out and about in Sydney as she gears up for the second half of her Eras Tour's Australian leg.
On Wednesday, Swift visited Accor Stadium in Sydney Olympic Park for a sound check before her first (of four) show on Friday. She also visited Sydney Zoo in Bungarribee, Blacktown.
On Tuesday, Swift was spotted enjoying dinner with her opening act Sabrina Carpenter in Surry Hills, with the duo arriving for dinner at Pellegrino 2000 about 7pm.
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One diner told 9News about the moment Swift's party walked in, saying there was "a bit of a kerfuffle" at the venue.
"My friend goes, 'That kinda looks like Taylor Swift' and my other friend goes, 'She looks really tall'," Sarah Monaha told 9News.
"I was starstruck, my heart was racing. I was like, 'Oh my goodness, as if this is happening to me right now'," she said. "We were freaking out as we were having our tiramisu."
Monaha said Swift and Carpenter sat in a corner table in the downstairs "wine cellar area", which has fewer tables than the upstairs section.
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"She sat down in the corner and she ordered her wine and her security guards were on the table next to her," she added.
Though the pop star's presence sparked a flurry of excitement, Monaha noted none of the venue's patrons approached Swift and allowed her to have "her dinner in peace".
There's been much speculation about if Kelce, who missed Swift's record-breaking three shows in Melbourne last weekend, would make it Down Under for her Sydney shows.
Before his arrival was even confirmed, some Australian fans started a public campaign begging him to do a shoey at one of her concerts.
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