Jason can’t stop laughing at Niecy Nash-Betts’ brutally honest take on working with Travis

Niecy Nash-Betts Jokingly Calls Out Travis Kelce for Ignoring Her Text Messages ‘Gassing’ Him Up: See His Reaction!

“And you know what I got? Crickets,” the actress told her ‘Grotesquerie’ costar on the latest episode of ‘New Heights’

Niecy Nash-Betts and Travis Kelce on ‘New Heights’. Photo: New Heights/Youtube

Travis Kelce accidentally ghosted Niecy Nash-Betts — but he had a good reason!

In the latter half of the Oct. 30 episode of the New Heights podcast, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, and his brother Jason Kelce were joined by Travis’ Grotesquerie costar, Nash-Betts, and she kicked things off by calling him out for responding to her texts with “crickets.”

“Travis, I’m so glad that you texted me and told me you had a new phone number because I’ve been texting your number,” she began to explain as the NFL star’s eyes grew wide.

He appeared to grow even more shocked as Nash-Betts, 54, explained the contents of her messages, which were nothing but complimentary and supportive.

“[I was] just gassing you up, telling you you did so good,” she told the co-host. “I was asking you like, ‘What did your teammates … what’d your people say [about Grotesquerie]? How you feeling about it? Did you watch it?’”

“And you know what I got? Crickets,” added the Scream Queens star as both Travis and Jason, 36, laughed.

Jason Kelce, Niecy Nash-Betts and Travis Kelce on ‘New Heights’.New Heights/Youtube

Recalling her reaction to the accidental ghosting, Nash-Betts continued, “And I said, ‘I know you ain’t got brand new,’” as Travis assured her, “Oh no, not me. I did have to switch it up though.”

“You know me better than that,” he continued. “It was getting crazy. … I was finally in a show with someone as amazing as you. I had everybody hitting me up, blowing me up. I had to switch it up on them.”

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After taking some ribbing for forgetting to give Nash-Betts his updated contact information, however, the athlete finally answered one of her pressing questions, revealing what his teammates think of Grotesquerie and his television acting debut.

Besides clowning him for one of his character Ed “Eddie” Laclan’s funnier lines — about a “banana hammock” he wore while working as a stripper in Alaska — his teammates are mostly just curious about the twists and turns, Travis revealed.

“They’re very interested in the dynamic on the show, like, everybody is kind of like mind blown on what’s really going on during the show,” the star tight end explained. “So that is kind of taking everybody’s mind away from me as an actor.”

Niecy Nash-Betts and Travis Kelce in ‘Grotesquerie’.Prashant Gupta/FX

According to the official synopsis, the Ryan Murphy drama follows Lois Tryon (Nash-Betts), a detective who believes that the crimes rattling her town “are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.”

She’s also grappling with a strained relationship with her daughter (Raven Goodwin) as her husband Marshall (Courtney B. Vance) is in long-term care at a hospital, which is where viewers first meet Travis’ character, Eddie, a nurse.

New episodes of Grotesquerie air Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX, and stream the next day on Hulu.