Livvy Dunne had an urgent message for Taylor Swift.
The 22-year-old influencer was in New Orleans for the Philadelphia Eagles’ rout of the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LIX where she reacted to the boos faced by the pop icon.
Dunne, an NCAA gymnast champion, is one of the richest student athletes in the world with an estimated net worth of $10m and counts herself as a ‘Swiftie’.
So she was not pleased when Swift – there to support her boyfriend and Chiefs star Travis Kelce – was booed by the many Eagles fans inside the Caesars Superdome when her face appeared on the jumbotron.
Swift, from Pennsylvania, grew up in an Eagles supporting household and so loyalties were divided on Sunday.
“Taylor Swift just got booed,” Dunne playfully captioned a video of herself watching the game. “Someone needs to tell her I wasn’t part of it ASAP.”
The LSU gymnast then added: “Don’t do my fellow WAG like that.”
Dunne is referring to the fact that both she and Swift are the partners of major athletes.
Kelce, the Chiefs tight end was hoping to win a third successive Super Bowl, while Dunne was in attendance with boyfriend, the MLB star Paul Skenes and LSU alumni.
Ahead of the game, Dunne made it clear where her allegiances lay.
“I do love the Chiefs,” she told reporters at the Fanatics’ Super Bowl party in New Orleans. “I’m business partners with Travis. It was awesome [shooting the drinks commercial].
“He’s such a great guy and I respect him as an athlete as well.”
Dunne’s Super Bowl party also saw her link up with Sydney Thomas, who shot to fame while working as a ring girl during the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight.
Thomas, like Dunne, has had to deal with overnight fame and a growing social media following and now has more than a million followers on TikTok.
The 21-year-old admitted her life has been turned upside down since appearing in the boxing match – which was viewed by over 100 million Netflix subscribers.
“It’s been crazy, my life just kind of flipped upside down out of nowhere. It’s been a wild ride, but it’s been great,” the Thomas told reporters.
Dunne, who earns millions from her social media following, has explained social media trolls can be hard to deal with.
“People need to understand that I work for everything I earn,” Dunne said.
“I’ve spent years building an audience of over 11 million followers between Instagram and TikTok (before it was banned), and brands pay for the reach that my accounts get and the demographic that it caters to.
“When I make content, I love to think about who might be watching it and what they’d like. People always comment stuff that they would never say to your face, so part of it is just having developed tough skin as well.
“Social media is hard. It’s a very hard place to be.”
In 2024, Dunne was part of the women’s gymnastics team that won it’s first national championship and returned to LSU to compete in a fifth and final year.
