On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ Rob Gronkowski, Gina Torres and Brooke Shields #PHIvsKC #NFLPlayoffs #SuperBowlLIX
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIX matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. spoke to four-time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski. He reflected on his Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ defeat of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments from head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes ahead of Super Bowl LIX. Lastly, Easton Jr. spoke to actresses Brooke Shields and Gina Torres as they reflected on their unique connections to Super Bowl history.
The latest episode of the Chiefs Wire Podcast will inform listeners about all developments in the team’s mindset ahead of their Super Bowl LIX matchup against the Eagles. We also hear Gronk’s advice for Mahomes on properly delivering a spike after a touchdown. At the same time, Torres and Shields discuss their memorable Super Bowl commercial and record-breaking post-Super Bowl program, respectively, while supporting Donna Kelce’s postseason brunch for GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign.
Check out the link below to get your fill of Chiefs talk ahead of the Super Bowl LIX kickoff:
Actress Gina Torres reflects on her ‘Suits’ reunion commercial during Super Bowl LVIII w/ @EdEastonJr
Over the weekend, Chiefs Wire’s Ed Easton Jr. spoke to accomplished actress Gina Torres at a remarkable and informative women’s empowerment brunch in Kansas City that was hosted by Donna Kelce in partnership with GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign.
In her interview with Easton Jr. on Saturday, Torres shared her thoughts on the GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign, the ongoing NFL playoffs, and an interesting connection that she has with the Kansas City Chiefs.
“I’m thrilled to be here as one of these incredible women on behalf of the GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign,” Torres said. “It’s just so important that women of a certain age show up and show out.”
Torres, an accomplished actor in both film and television, was joined by Brooke Shields, Rosalyn Sanchez, Alex Guarnaschelli, and other notable women at the event before the Chiefs’ divisional-round playoff matchup against the Houston Texans.
“It’s incredibly empowering,” Torres said of the event. “For so long, especially our generation of women, we were taught that we couldn’t all have a community. That there were so few of us that we couldn’t support each other because, in some way, it would detract from our power and ourselves. What we have all come to learn, which is fantastic, is that we are more powerful when we’re together.
“When we get to share our stories, when we don’t feel that we’re the only ones going through any particular thing. Whether it’s raising teenagers or menopause or just this incredible wisdom that you find, focusing on ourselves and our health and ensuring that we get the information that we need to thrive well into our 50s and beyond.”
Torres and the THRIVE@50+ crew joined Donna Kelce as she watched her son Travis cross another postseason milestone in the Chiefs’ victory over Houston. She shared her thoughts on the remaining teams competing in the playoffs.
“This is what I always say: if you get to this point, you’ve already won,” Torres explained. “Okay, it’s so impossible. I mean, the odds of getting to this stage as an athlete. I mean, everyone involved—everyone involved—has excellence inside of them, so that’s what I celebrate.”
The longtime ‘Suits’ star had a memorable cast reunion alongside Judge Judy for the Super Bowl LVIII commercial during Kansas City’s memorable championship matchup against the San Francisco 49ers. The experience of appearing in a Super Bowl commercial impacted Torres, who grew up watching the unique ads during the big game.
“I grew up watching Super Bowl commercials, never thinking I would be in one, and certainly not in the capacity I was, so that was great,” said Torres. “Meeting Judge Judy was incredible. And, of course, being reunited with my cast mates from Suits was a lot of fun.”
Torres’ most recent show ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ ends next month after five seasons. She shared some closing thoughts about her experience as one of the program’s stars.
“Every show I move away from, I’ve gotten to spend a great deal of time with the cast. I mean, this cast, this crew, we are a crew and a family,” Torres said. “It’s sad, but we’re in each other’s lives, so we don’t get to see each other every day for 12 hours, but we do get to check up. I mean, babies have been born. There’s still a lot of laughter. Our text threads are very much alive. So I’m thrilled about that and thrilled that the audience received it in the way that it did.”
Visit Instagram and Facebook pages for more information on GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign.
Chiefs Wire’s @EdEastonJr spoke to iconic actress and author Brooke Shields at a women’s empowerment brunch hosted by Donna Kelce.
This week, Chiefs Wire’s Ed Easton Jr. spoke to model, actress, and author Brooke Shields at a remarkably informative women’s empowerment brunch in Kansas City that was hosted by Donna Kelce in partnership with GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign.
Shields reflected on her relationship with GSK, Kelce, and how her memorable appearance on the hit show ‘Friends’ after Super Bowl XXX changed her career.
“They [GSK] contacted me a while ago and asked if I wanted to be a member of this wonderful group of women to really talk about their shingles risk and the importance of being proactive and asking your doctor and pharmacist about your risk and vaccination,” Shields explained. “Many people don’t know many extraordinary facts about shingles. That’s unnerving. It can last so long, and it can be so isolating and painful, and just the importance of becoming aware and proactive. I met all these amazing women, and we’re in Kansas City now. We’re about to see the Chiefs play, which will be amazing.”
Shields, an accomplished actor, model, and author, was joined by Roselyn Sanchez, Gina Torres, Karen Clay-Fenderson, and others at the brunch event before the Chiefs’ divisional-round playoff matchup against the Houston Texans on January 18.
“I think there’s real strength and vulnerability, and when you hear the varied stories and the diversity in the stories and the women, you feel a part of a community now,” Shields continued. “You feel like you are not alone. You feel like you’re in a growing community. And there’s such strength in that, and it’s empowering because it’s positive. So it’s been, it’s been nice, and you hear all the stories, you’re just like, ‘Wow’.”
“I came to a point where I thought, ‘I have not lived this long and done this much to be discounted or relegated to just being, you know, over the hill’, or somehow not worth that, not having the same worth I have more worth now,” Shields explained. “Because I’ve earned it, and I’ve got great people in my life. It’s only through living this long that it’s it’s rounded itself out into true longevity.
“I think it’s funny because I’m often met with this perception that people wish I looked like I did in Blue Lagoon or Calvin Klein, which was 45 years ago. It disappoints them when we don’t maintain it exactly, and that’s why so many women chase beauty and try to look younger. I always say I don’t want to look like my daughters. I’ve earned this age.”
In her book, Shields reflects on one specific experience she thought would be relatable to readers.
“I was talking to somebody at a cocktail party, and he was just talking about wine and puffing up, and, you know, I mentioned my age,” Shields continued. “The minute I mentioned my age, I was talking about wine, but I threw in my age as a correlation because I thought it would be funny, and he just changed instantly. It’s [was] like, ‘I wish you didn’t tell me that.’ I thought, ‘Wow, that’s what’s so interesting from a societal, historical, male way of it made him older.’ If I was older and you can’t find a 58-at-the-time person attractive, that’s like, you’re only supposed to find the 20-something attractive. I just thought, ‘Wow, I’ve got to put that in this book because this is not just happening to me. This is happening to women everywhere.'”
Shields is a part of Super Bowl history for her guest role on the hit television show ‘Friends‘ in 1996 after Super Bowl XXX. 52.925 million viewers tuned into the ‘Friends’ episode titled “The One After the Superbowl,“ making it the series’ most-watched episode. It still holds the record as the highest-rated Super Bowl lead-out program of all time.
“I said yes before I even knew the character,” Shields said of her ‘Friends’ experience. “I was hoping I wouldn’t have to play myself. Then I heard some other actresses, like Julia Roberts, were in it, and the cast was incredible. I was such a fan of ‘Friends’. What I remember the most is being able to trust my comedic instincts and first being told to downplay my character, not to play it so crazy, and then begging them and saying, ‘Please, can I just… can I do it the way I want to do it?’ And they wouldn’t let me do it at first. Then, during the second take, the second pass, they always do things twice in each scene. They said from across the stage, ‘Shields, put it back in,‘ I remember thinking my comedic instincts were being trusted. They’re letting me do it.”
Shields’ comedic instincts that were on display in ‘Friends’ proved to be so memorable that they opened doors for her later in the 1990s with the show ‘Suddenly Susan’.
“I literally did that looking the crazy laugh thing, and I got my own show the next day,” Shields said. “Like, literally the next day, I got my own show. I’ll never forget all the guys in suits… all the executives coming in to watch it, and me thinking like, ‘God, I wonder if it’s like a tour or something,’ realizing they were all the executives and they were like scouting me, and it changed my life. I mean, I got my own show, and it was four years of some of the best times I’ve ever had creatively.”
Visit Instagram and Facebook pages for more information on GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign.
@EdEastonJr spoke to iconic actresses Brooke Shields, Gina Torres, and Roselyn Sanchez about Donna Kelce at a women’s empowerment brunch.
This weekend, Ed Easton Jr. spoke to iconic actresses Roselyn Sanchez, Gina Torres, and Brooke Shields at a remarkable women’s empowerment brunch hosted by Donna Kelce in partnership with GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign in Kansas City ahead of the Chiefs’ divisional-round playoff game.
The THRIVE@50+ campaign emphasizes the need for conversations and awareness about the risk of health challenges such as shingles to ensure that people can be present for all of life’s most important moments and events.
The campaign’s conversations, which profile women who genuinely “do it all”, are full of great stories, laughs, and essential health information.
Donna Kelce, who served as the host of Saturday’s brunch, was praised by Sanchez, Torres, and Shields for the success of her sons—Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce—who have been catapulted into the national spotlight in recent years.
“When you’re a mom of boys, and you have two out of two… I mean, it’s incredible that you have two boys, and they both make it to the NFL,” Sanchez said. “The sacrifices that you make as a parent to be able to have elite athletes reach that level. I have a girl who plays tennis. She’s 13 years old, and it’s all-consuming. We are tennis parents, and it is the tournament every weekend. She trains every single day, and we’re like, oh my god. So to raise kids that are so focused and determined and they make it to the top like it’s a fluke when you get one, but to be able to get to raise two, to accomplish that is unbelievable.”
Travis Kelce recently became the Kansas City all-time touchdown leader this season, cementing his legacy as one of the best players of his generation. Jason Kelce has successfully transitioned from being an NFL player into a new role as a television analyst following his legendary career with the Eagles.
“I mean, kudos to her,” Torres said of Donna Kelce. “I don’t know how she did it. I don’t know how she kept enough food in the house, quite frankly, to feed two potential NFL football players. So hats off to her. She has so much to give to women and mothers everywhere. “
Saturday’s brunch wasn’t Shields’ first encounter with Donna Kelce, as the pair had previously connected at the 2024 Glamour Women of the Year Awards, which the actress hosted with her daughter Rowan Henchy last October.
“I had already met [Donna Kelce], so it was fun to reconnect with her,” Shields explained. “She’s just fabulous and funny and irreverent. She’s like, ‘Can you believe all this?’, and I’m like, ‘Boy, you inherited, and you created, and then you inherited quite the story.’ She’s so down to earth about everything, and that’s what all these women were. It was so refreshing because nobody was superior, and it’s just they’re women at their best, and to be at the game with her is going to be surreal. I have to say it’s going to be surreal. I’m going to have to stay warm but pinch myself.”
Visit Instagram and Facebook pages for more information on GSK’s THRIVE@50+ campaign.
