{"id":516533,"date":"2026-01-14T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516533\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:58:09","slug":"why-travis-jason-kelce-were-surprised-by-mom-donnas-fantastic-traitors-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516533\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Travis, Jason Kelce were surprised by mom Donna’s ‘fantastic’ ‘Traitors’ performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

** SPOILER ALERT **<\/strong><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t know she was trouble.<\/p>\n

Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce were surprised by their mom Donna Kelce\u2019s \u201cfantastic\u201d performance on Season 4 of \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason, 38, joked to \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast listeners<\/a> Wednesday that their mother was \u201cway more deceitful and devious than\u201d they\u2019ve ever seen her.<\/p>\n

Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce weighed in on their mom Donna Kelce\u2019s \u201cfantastic\u201d performance on \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d Donnakelce\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Chiefs player told \u201cNew Heights\u201d listeners Wednesday how \u201cproud\u201d he felt of their mom. New Heights Podcast<\/p>\n

His younger brother, 36, then gushed that he is \u201cso proud of her, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Chiefs player noted that the 73-year-old \u201clooked like she was having a blast [and] enjoying\u201d the show, which premiered last week.<\/p>\n

\u201c[She] showed everybody what she\u2019s got,\u201d Travis continued. \u201cIt was just so cool to see her in this moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just so fun to see her out there, living out her dream, giving the world a beautiful message about being fortunate enough to do these things at her age and where she is in life,\u201d the tight end added, praising their mother for standing \u201cher ground at the roundtable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Travis (pictured above in July 2023) especially loved that Donna was \u201chaving a blast\u201d onscreen. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n

Jason agreed that he \u201cloved watching\u201d Donna compete on Season 4.<\/p>\n

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Travis specifically gave fellow contestant Ron Funches a shoutout for \u201csticking by [Donna\u2019s] side and being kind to her\u201d \u2014 but joked the comedian, 42, \u201cprobably felt a certain way after he found out she was the Secret Traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason agreed Donna did a \u201cgreat job\u201d despite being an \u201ceasy target,\u201d saying he \u201cloved watching her\u201d compete on the Peacock series.<\/p>\n

Donna was the fourth cast member to leave<\/a> Scotland\u2019s Ardross Castle when the first batch of episodes dropped Jan. 8, alongside Rob Cesternino, Porsha Williams and Ian Terry.<\/p>\n

The ESPN sports analyst joked that Donna acted \u201cdeceitful and devious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donna was the fourth to leave the Scottish castle in last week\u2019s episode drop. Euan Cherry\/PEACOCK<\/p>\n

Before entering the castle, Donna made a dig<\/a> at Travis and Jason\u2019s ex-partners.<\/p>\n

When asked who she would not want to see in the cast, Donna replied, \u201cMaybe some of my sons\u2019 adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

She clarified, \u201cThat could either be on other teams, or it could be coaches, or it could be past girlfriends<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was the \u201cSecret Traitor.\u201d Sam McElwee\/Peacock<\/p>\n

Donna made headlines for joking that she didn\u2019t want to run into her sons\u2019 ex-girlfriends filming the Peacock show. Euan Cherry\/Peacock<\/p>\n

Her \u201cTraitors\u201d casting made headlines in June 2025. <\/p>\n

The following month, Jason insisted to \u201cEntertainment Tonight\u201d<\/a> that Donna was not as \u201cmanipulative and cunning\u201d as \u201ccutthroat\u201d players need to be.<\/p>\n

The ESPN analyst<\/a> called Donna \u201ctoo sweet and kind\u201d to compete. However, he was swiftly proved wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"** SPOILER ALERT ** They didn\u2019t know she was trouble. Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce were surprised by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":516534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,1857,11869,172,9479,72647,171,1100,5158,54076,177,6337,3572,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-516533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-siblings","tag-donna-kelce","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-kelce","tag-podcasts","tag-reality-show","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-travis-kelce","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115895934155262782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}