Former U.S. President Bill Clinton isn’t sure he has this presidential privilege!
Clinton, 78, shared what it was like taking his daughter, Chelsea, 44, granddaughter, Charlotte, 10, and their friends to certainly one of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows during an appearance on Live With Kelly and Mark on Monday, November 25. But when host Kelly Ripa asked if he tried to swing a backstage visit to fulfill Swift, Clinton had a surprising response.
“Do they give the impression of being at you and go, ‘If anybody can get us backstage, it’s you?’” Ripa asked, to which Clinton responded, “They didn’t, and I probably couldn’t have. We didn’t [go backstage].”
Though the forty second president didn’t get a private meet-and-greet with Swift, 34, he had an important time anyway. Clinton and company attended certainly one of the pop star’s Toronto concert events earlier this month.
“I’d never been to certainly one of her concert events before … I get it now. I understand why she has such an impact on people, and why plenty of these young girls are so captivated,” Clinton said.
Clinton praised Swift for her three-hour set, saying it’s a “very respectful thing to do for the audience.” Ripa agreed, “She makes it value their while.”
Clinton continued, “I used to be fascinated watching our crowd of children, especially my granddaughter, standing there with the wife of certainly one of Chelsea’s friends from 20-plus years ago and her daughters and all of them up there singing. They knew all of the words to all of the songs.”
Clinton isn’t the one big name to treat his family to an Eras Tour concert. Dwayne Johnson revealed that, for the primary time in his profession, he had to tug strings to obtain tickets to the record-breaking tour for a friend.
“It’s never happened in my profession. Normally, I don’t need to pull strings … I just make it occur,” Johnson, 52, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview published Sunday, November 24. “On this case, it was for an excellent friend of mine who was like, ‘Please. Taylor. Last concert.’ I’m never good at asking for that form of stuff. I’m good at giving it. Hate asking for stuff. I don’t do it.”
He continued, “But on this case, made just a little call, Taylor made it occur, [we got] tickets … [my friend was] blissful. I got the image of the blissful ladies who were there. I appreciate that about Taylor.”
Swift is preparing to wrap up her Eras Tour, which began in March 2023 and can conclude in Vancouver on December 8.