Travis Kelce Shocked Game Show Guest Stars as a Host: ‘Blew Us Away’

Travis Kelce was the host with probably the most on the Are You Smarter Than a Movie star? set — at the very least based on two of the sport present’s visitor stars, Natasha Leggero and Ron Funches.

“He brings his conventional golden retriever power of a person who’s tremendous engaging but all the way down to earth,” Funches, 41, stated completely within the new concern of Us Weekly of Kelce, 34, earlier than the Prime Video present’s premiere. “He’s a fairly wonderful gents.”

Leggero, 50, was fast to cosign her fellow comic’s tackle Kelce. “He actually blew us away,” she stated of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs participant’s internet hosting prowess.

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Each Funches and Leggero did admit to Us that they had been skeptical at first about what Kelce would carry to the desk.

“You meet some athletes who their complete focus has been athletics and never studying and never doing anything,” Funches stated, noting that Kelce was “a champion” when it got here to the present.

“In all regards, he places within the work ethic, he places in every thing he must do to be good,” Funches defined. “I don’t assume he’d have an issue saying this, at first — similar to anybody attempting one thing new — he wasn’t as assured in himself about it.”

Nonetheless, when he got here again the following day it was as if Kelce had “been internet hosting for years.” Funches added: “It was very spectacular.”

Leggero went on to say that she was “fairly impressed with how properly he was doing.” Throughout breaks in filming, everybody praised Kelce for “how humorous” the present was turning into. “You would see he was beginning to actually really feel himself,” she added.

Leggero additionally joked to Us that she felt like soccer gamers had been her “pure enemies” earlier than Kelce due to experiences again in highschool. “I actually am not a soccer individual,” she stated, noting that working alongside the athlete undoubtedly modified her tune.

“He was simply so good natured, and you might inform he beloved comedy,” she gushed. “He didn’t assume he was higher than any of us. I simply really feel like he actually needed to slot in, and actually did slot in. It was cool, and it’s cool for him … you’ll be able to’t be a soccer participant ceaselessly, proper? I feel persons are gonna love him.”

Are You Smarter Than a Movie star? premieres by way of Prime Video on Wednesday, October 16.

Reporting by Amanda Williams