{"id":58246,"date":"2025-06-24T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=58246"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:06:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-trivial-act-at-restaurant-leaves-influencer-mortified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=58246","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s trivial act at restaurant leaves influencer &#8216;mortified&#8217;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"ql-video\" src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2025\/06\/23\/954112498303257146\/960x540_MP4_954112498303257146.mp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Influencer Serena Kerrigan has spilled details on her awkward encounter with Taylor Swift in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The social media personality, 31, revealed she was left &#8216;mortified&#8217; after Swift, 35, politely declined her offer of a free pack of one of Kerrigan&#8217;s Let&#8217;s F***ing Date card games while on a night out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The two women were in the same restaurant when Kerrigan took the initiative to approach the All Too Well singer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She told the story on the latest episode of iHeartRadio&#8217;s\u00a0Casual Chaos\u00a0podcast with\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Gia Giudice<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Recently, [I] went to a restaurant and I heard that\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Taylor Swift<\/span>\u00a0was there. And I was like, &#8216;I have to give her my card game,&#8217; Kerrigan explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And so [my boyfriend] Felix [Levine] was at home, and he put my card game in an\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Uber<\/span>\u00a0package. I left the restaurant. Millions of paparazzi, fans, were already waiting outside.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"splitLeft\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8b879cccc0c492e\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/06\/24\/01\/99651961-14840157-The_two_women_were_in_the_same_restaurant_when_Kerrigan_took_the-m-21_1750723636235.jpg\" alt=\"Influencer Serena Kerrigan opened up about her awkward encounter with Taylor Swift earlier this year Seen here May 13, 2024\" width=\"306\" height=\"678\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d1d1d896722c336e\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/06\/24\/01\/99651959-14840157-Kerrigan_31_revealed_Swift_35_turned_her_down_when_she_was_offer-m-23_1750723652955.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor is seen here February 2, 2025\" width=\"306\" height=\"678\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Influencer Serena Kerrigan opened up about her awkward encounter with Taylor Swift earlier this year<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kerrigan continued, &#8216;So I was like, &#8220;OK, she&#8217;s here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I grabbed the card game and I&#8217;m sitting there. And we went to The Corner Store, eating everything, drinking everything, everyone&#8217;s filing out of the restaurant.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This was some time ago as Swift was dining with her boyfriend Travis Kelce as well as Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As the quartet left the restaurant, Kerrigan waited for her opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I literally was like, &#8220;Hi, I\u2019m such a fan. And I created this card game. I think you would really love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And she literally looked at it and she goes, &#8220;Oh, my God, thank you so much. But no, thank you. But thank you,&#8221;&#8216; Kerrigan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Like, it was so sweet. I don\u2019t think she could take it from me. \u2026 There could have been like poison. It looks like a cigarette.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kerrigan said the Bejeweled singer&#8217;s reaction was &#8216;so sweet,&#8217; but she was still &#8216;mortified&#8217; by being turned down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/06\/24\/01\/99655355-14840157-image-a-42_1750725886608.jpg\" alt=\"The social media personality, 31, revealed she was left 'mortified' after Swift, 35, politely declined her offer of a free pack of one of Kerrigan's Let's F***ing Date card games while on a night out\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The social media personality, 31, revealed she was left &#8216;mortified&#8217; after Swift, 35, politely declined her offer of a free pack of one of Kerrigan&#8217;s Let&#8217;s F***ing Date card games while on a night out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0&#8216;I was like, &#8220;Oh my God, I put her in this position where she had to say no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;But then, I got over it because it\u2019s such an iconic story for the plot. Who cares that she said no?&#8217; Kerrigan added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And by the way, I kept the game that she rejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;One day I\u2019m going to meet her, and I\u2019m going to be like, &#8220;Funny story,&#8221; and we\u2019re going to be besties. It\u2019s all good.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I was so scared. Even afterwards, I obviously felt about, like, &#8220;Oh my god, rejection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But I was like, &#8220;Wait, this was literally so sick.&#8221; And like, we interacted. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don\u2019t take. I\u2019m so glad that I did it,&#8217; she concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She shared the video of her trying to hand the package to Swift on Instagram last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Gotta shoot my shot,&#8217; she captioned the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Serena is an actress currently appearing on Peacock&#8217;s Older, Hotter Wiser<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She came up with her social media alter ego SFK. or Serena F***ing Kerrigan \u2013 to project confidence through her bouts of insecurity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She turned that personal into a brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">During Covid lockdowns she launched &#8220;Let&#8217;s F***ing Date, a series of card games aimed at helping players take on the world of dating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influencer Serena Kerrigan has spilled details on her awkward encounter with Taylor Swift in a new interview. 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