Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story: Donna Kelce's sweet cameo

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Donna Kelce’s rise to stardom deserves its own celebratory graduation dance. The mother of two Super Bowl champions – Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce – is doing the equivalent of a TV touchdown in two of Hallmark’s “Countdown to Christmas” holiday movies this season with cameo appearances. And she tells USA TODAY she had no concerns at all about her roles.

“You know, at my age you don’t get nervous anymore,” Kelce, 72, said at Friday’s Chiefs game. “People either accept you as you are or it is what it is.” I get a lot of comments. “You’re too old.” “You are that too.” It’s like: Who cares? Just go out and have a good time. Reinvent yourself. Have fun. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says.”

“Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story” premieres Saturday at the network’s first Christmas Experience event (and airs at 8 ET/PT on the Hallmark Channel). The first ceremonial takeover of the city’s Crown Center Square runs weekends through December 22nd.

Donna Kelce appeared in the Philadelphia-set film “Christmas on Call,” which premiered November 22nd. She looked like a natural, wearing an Eagles jersey with Jason’s number and telling two guests about her cheesesteak shop (stars Sara Canning and Ser’Darius Blain). ), “Go Birds!”

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In Holiday Touchdown, Derrick (Tyler Hynes), the Chiefs’ director of fan engagement, falls in love with Alana (Hunter King), a young woman whose family is in the running for the prestigious Fan of the Year award. Like other sports enthusiasts, Alana’s family believes that her beloved team’s success is based on a superstition: someone in her family must wear a special knit hat on Christmas Day.

Kelce plays the manager of Alana’s family restaurant, which serves delicious Kansas City barbecue. Of course, for the role, Kelce wore a Chiefs jersey that featured a special message from her son. Travis signed the jersey and also wrote, “I love you mom!”

“I’ve always had this jersey,” Kelce said Friday, wearing the same jersey from the movie. “He signed this for me a long time ago when he first came into the league.” (The Chiefs selected Travis in the 2013 NFL Draft.) And I wear it every time.

“It’s starting to break off and stuff,” she added. “So I have to cover it up, but that’s probably the most superstitious thing I get is this jersey.” Kelce also showed off her late mother’s bracelet, which is close to her heart. “My mom died a few years ago, and I carry this with me,” Kelce said. “She has one (pearl) for the Chiefs and one for the Eagles, and I feel like she’s with me. So I always have these and I always have the jersey.”

Tyler Hynes praised Kelce for being able to get into acting so quickly during an interview aboard Hallmark’s first Christmas cruise in early November.

“One of the first conversations I had with her, I thought, ‘I can’t imagine my mother in this situation.’ That’s crazy,” Hynes said. “She walks into a room full of people, executives, actors, famous actors that we both idolize — Ed Begley Jr., Diedrich (Bader) — and she’s asked to come in and deliver these lines, and it’s a whole new world. My mother had no idea what was going on, and yet there she was. And she was thrown in at the deep end.”

Kelce said she didn’t seek acting advice from Travis (“Grotesquerie,” “Moonbase 8”) or Jason (“Abbott Elementary,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). “Just go up there,” Kelce said, “you do your best and pray to God it’s not bad.”

But her lack of nerve doesn’t mean she’s ready to pursue more acting roles. “I think I’ll just relax,” she said. “Some people feel like they’ve had enough of the Kelces, so I’m going to tone it down a little.”

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