Are you ready for it? After clarifying those rumors about her possible Super Bowl halftime show earlier this week on The Tonight Show, Taylor Swift will be back on Friday night (Oct. 10) for a command performance.
NBC announced on Wednesday (Oct. 8) that a special encore edition of The Tonight Show will air tomorrow, featuring an extended interview with host Jimmy Fallon featuring bits not seen in the original visit on Monday night (Oct. 6). The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Taylor Swift (Extended Cut) will include unaired interview segments from the episode where Swift responded to rumors that she had turned down a chance to play at next year’s Super Bowl.
“Here’s the thing: Jay-Z has always been very good to me,” Swift told Fallon in the already aired episode in reference to the rap mogul whose Roc Nation produces the halftime show. “Our teams are really close. They sometimes will call and say, ‘How does she feel about [the Super Bowl]?’ And that’s not like an official offer or like a conference room conversation. Just ‘Our teams are really close, how does she feel about it in general?,’” Swift added.
During the aired bits, Swift also talked about her excitement about her engagement to Travis Kelce, as well as explaining why her bestie, Ed Sheeran, had to find out about it from the internet because he famously doesn’t have a cell phone. “You have to email him and then set up a FaceTime and he has to find an iPad and they have to give it to him like he’s like a child,” she said. “This is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet and the news came out and I was like, ‘Oh my God, we forgot to call Ed!’ He’s like family, I love him, but he doesn’t have a phone!”
She also broke down her lusty homage to Kelce’s equipment, “Wood,” saying it started off as a tune about superstitions, but then took a randy turn. “I don’t know what happened, man,” she joked about the track that many have taken as a thinly veiled humble brag about her intended’s endowment.
The original episode was already very Taylor-coded, from the Roots interrupting Fallon’s monologue to encourage him to just let the singer come out already, to the cold open in which Fallon dressed up in a glittery marching band costume and danced to “The Fate of Ophelia” with a group of showgirls.
The Tonight Show airs at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC and streams the next day on Peacock.