Taylor Swift’s backup dancer’s brother tackled her boyfriend Kelce in ‘play of the game’

The brother of Taylor Swift’s backup dancer Kameron Saunders, left, laid a huge hit on Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, right. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

A backup dancer on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour has said it was the “play of the game” when his brother spectacularly intercepted a pass on Monday Night Football – immediately after landing a thunderous hit on Swift’s boyfriend – all while the pop superstar watched in person from a luxury box.

The sequence of events that brought together Eras performer Kameron Saunders, his pro football-playing sibling Khalen, Swift and her partner, Travis Kelce, left the 14-time Grammy winner leaning into someone next to her, animatedly pointing at the field in plain view of a television camera, and incredulously saying: “That’s my backup dancer’s brother.”