Taylor Swift made quite a few jaws drop with the photo shoot for her upcoming Life of a Showgirl album, including Erin Andrews.
On the latest episode of the sports commentator’s Calm Down podcast with Charissa Thompson, which was posted to YouTube on Friday (Aug. 22), Andrews revealed what she texted the pop star after seeing some of the risqué snaps. On the cover of the Oct. 3-slated album, Swift appears in a bathtub wearing nothing but a revealing bejeweled leotard, and in companion photos for the project, she showcases her figure in various form-fitting showgirl outfits with stark cutouts.
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“Oh, my god!” Andrews said emphatically on the show, her eyes widening. “We texted her and were like, ‘Good morning!’”
“Like, ‘Body-ody!’” the analyst added. “She looked great.”
Thompson noted that seeing Swift’s photos made her feel the need to head “to the gym” straight away. The episode comes a little over a week after the 14-time Grammy winner unveiled the Life of a Showgirl cover art while appearing on boyfriend Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, where Swift also revealed that she’d worked on the new album whenever she had a rare few days off from her global Eras Tour last year.
“This is what we talked about and even said to her,” Thompson said on Calm Down. “‘When did you have time to make an album?’ As I’m, like, b—hing about my ‘busy schedule,’ I’m like, ‘This chick was on a tour for two years and then, oh, I don’t know, on her couple off days would fly to Sweden like it was no big thing and make another album.’ I’m constantly in awe of her work ethic.”
“Independent of her being Taylor Swift, if you just, in a silo, wrote down all of the things that this chick does and the way that she does them and the rollout and the professionalism and the business of Taylor,” she added. “[That] is what we’re in awe of.”
Andrews and Thompson are more than just friends and fans of Swift. They also played a huge part in the musician’s romance with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, with whom the cohosts have long been friends. After Travis expressed his disappointment on New Heights over not being able to slip Swift his phone number at an Eras show in 2023, Andrews and Thompson urged the singer on their own podcast to give Travis a chance — and the rest was history. Even the athlete told them after the fact, “I owe you big time!!”
The Calm Down ladies have since become pals with Swift as well. In a recent Instagram post chronicling his offseason adventures, Travis shared a photo of the whole gang enjoying a fun outing in the snow.
Watch Andrews and Thompson gush about Swift’s Life of a Showgirl photos on Calm Down below.
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