The Toast

Podbit · The Toast

I Miss My Man: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

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Story 5: Taylor Swift at Tight End University + Olivia Culpo's Clooney House Reno

At 40:36 · chapter starts 38:15

Claudia covers Taylor Swift's appearance at Travis Kelce's Tight End University event in Nashville, where she wore a yellow floral jacquard Simkai mini dress and matching Aquazzura stilettos alongside tight ends George Kittle and Greg Olsen. Claire Kittle is spotted in micro shorts and celebrated accordingly. The hosts note the wedding is approximately one week away — a week from Thursday — which makes the level of pre-wedding public activity feel both exciting and slightly surreal. A brief discussion of Kelce's wide-leg shorts (compared to Jackie's infamous early-Toast culottes) pivots into a digression about Greg Olsen's appearance at Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey's wedding. That segue opens the door to an extended and genuinely entertaining discussion of Culpo's ongoing home renovation reveal on social media — specifically that the home she purchased was formerly owned and lived in by George and Amal Clooney, whose taste apparently ran to dark, cramped interiors, a leather couch randomly placed in a hallway, and a dressing glam room the hosts describe as a 'bunker.' Culpo's renovations are praised as stunning and uniquely personal.

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