Taylor Swift's Christmas Kindness: Pop Star Gifts Stadium Worker $600
Taylor Swift ensured that Arrowhead Stadium staff received a special present on Christmas while attending fiancé Travis Kelce’s NFL game.
“I was working at Arrowhead for the Chiefs game on Christmas Day,” Robyn Gentry wrote on Facebook Sunday, December 28. “I was completing my end-of-season tasks, chatting with my colleagues when security began to pass through. First, it was Donna Kelce, then Travis, and then Taylor.”
Gentry continued, “She was moving around, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and approached me, expressing her gratitude for my work on Christmas, and saying, ‘Please accept this, Merry Christmas.’ My mind went blank. Naturally, I responded with ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘thank you so much.’ Travis and she were both beaming and repeatedly wished everyone a Merry Christmas and expressed their thanks for working on Christmas before they departed, and I paused to examine what was in my hand…. $600.”
Gentry stated that the sum represented “two weeks’ worth of my entire salary,” and she had “recently spent that much on Christmas gifts for eight children.”
'Sweetie Pie' Taylor Swift Gifted Stadium Worker a $100 Bill at Chiefs Game
“I immediately started to cry,” Gentry recalled. “So I returned home and haven’t been able to bring myself to spend it. I framed one instead. I still haven’t spent any of it, but I wanted to share this story with people who would appreciate it with me. Taylor and Travis are genuinely kind and wonderful people. It’s truly remarkable and incredibly generous. Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me.
Alongside her message, Gentry shared a series of images, including six $100 bills displayed and another picture of the cash presented in a black frame.
This isn’t the first instance of Swift, 36, demonstrating generosity towards stadium employees. In 2023, Swift distributed $100 bills to food service staff who attended to her while watching the Kansas City Chiefs play. The following year, Jerris Rainey — a ticket taker at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York — praised Swift after meeting her at a Chiefs game.
“She’s a sweetie pie. Very approachable,” Rainey told 7 News Buffalo at the time. “I simply wanted to see her, and she stopped and inquired if I worked at the stadium. I confirmed that I did, and she asked if she could offer me a tip. She gave me $100 and then asked if I’d like to take a photo with her, and I said yes.”
Swift has continued to generate headlines for her thoughtful gestures, most recently awarding bonuses to Eras Tour employees in her new documentary, The End of an Era. (The documentary censored the precise amount she distributed.)
“Bonus day is so important, because establishing a precedent with The Eras Tour is really important to me, because people who work on the road, if the tour grosses more, they get more of a bonus, and these people just work so hard and they are the best at what they do,” she said.
She continued, “It’s fun to write the notes. It’s fun to think about everybody’s lives that they’re gonna go back to and the time off they’re gonna have and the kids they haven’t seen because they’ve been away for months, and just making that worthwhile for them is really — it feels like Christmas morning when you finally get to say thank you.”
