{"id":779395,"date":"2026-07-04T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779395\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:11:11","slug":"taylor-swift-wedding-speech-by-lena-dunham-slammed-by-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779395\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Wedding Speech by Lena Dunham Slammed by Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of celebrities attended Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding<\/a>, but there\u2019s one who\u2019s stirred the most conversation.<\/p>\n

A source told The Daily Mail<\/a> that Lena Dunham<\/a> divided Taylor and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding guests<\/a> at their rehearsal dinner on July 2 with a controversial speech in which she remarked that \u201cAmerican football is just straight guys reenacting gay porn.\u201d Travis plays as the tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, while many of his fellow NFL players and colleagues, including his brother Jason Kelce and coach Andy Reid, attended his and Taylor\u2019s wedding. <\/p>\n

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The insider claimed that, while there were \u201clots of speeches,\u201d Lena became one of the biggest talking points of the night, as her jokes drew a \u201cdivided\u201d response from guests who responded with a combination of \u201cgasps and laughs.\u201d According to the source, however, Taylor<\/a> was on her friend\u2019s side of the joke, claiming that she called Lena a \u201cgenius\u201d after her speech.<\/p>\n

Taylor and Lena have been close friends for more than a decade, with Taylor even serving as a bridesmaid at Lena\u2019s wedding to musician Luis Felber in 2021. Also at the rehearsal dinner and wedding was Lena\u2019s ex-boyfriend, Jack Antonoff, whom she dated from 2012 to 2017. Antonoff is now married to actress Margaret Qualley.<\/p>\n

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As for other drama, The Daily Mail reported that a household-name celebrity had asked for an invitation to the wedding, only to be rejected. Another A-lister who wasn\u2019t present was Taylor\u2019s former best friend, Blake Lively<\/a>, with whom she had a famous falling out over Blake\u2019s public lawsuit with her It Ends With Us director, Justin Baldoni.<\/p>\n

Taylor and Travis married at Madison Square Garden in the neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City on July 3, 2026. The venue announced the news on the jumbotron outside the arena with the text, \u201cJUST&T MARRIED!\u201d Taylor and Travis\u2019 looks were by Christian Dior Haute Couture and designed by Jonathan Anderson. They both didn\u2019t have bridesmaids or groomsmen. Taylor\u2019s brother, Austin, was her Man of Honor, while Travis\u2019 brother, Jason, was his Best Man. Taylor wore Christian Louboutin shoes and accessorized with Cartier jewelry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of celebrities attended Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding, but there\u2019s one who\u2019s stirred the most conversation. A source told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,8966,7223,12659],"class_list":["post-779395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-lena-dunham","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}