Simone Biles Delivers Viral Clapback to Trolls Questioning Her & Jonathan Owens’ Invite to Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s Star-Studded Wedding
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The highly anticipated 2025 wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce has dominated global pop culture headlines for weeks, drawing a curated guest list of A-listers across music, professional sports, Hollywood and media. Among the high-profile attendees were 7-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in world history, and her husband Jonathan Owens, a safety for the Chicago Bears. Earlier this week, Biles shared a carousel of candid photos from the private nuptials on her official Instagram account, capturing the couple laughing on the open-air dance floor, posing for group shots with fellow guests, and cheering during Swift and Kelce’s emotional first dance. The images, credited to photographer @sonejr and Getty Images, racked up more than 14 million likes in 48 hours, drawing widespread praise for Biles’ elegant wedding guest look and the joyful energy of the event.
However, the post also attracted a wave of baseless negative comments from a small group of internet trolls, who falsely claimed Biles and Owens were “uninvited crashers” who showed up to “leech clout” from Swift and Kelce’s high-profile celebration. Unwilling to let the false narratives go unaddressed, Biles took time to reply directly to multiple critical comments under her post, kicking off what fans have now officially dubbed #ClapbackSeason across social media platforms. In her most viral response, which has earned 2.3 million likes on its own, Biles wrote, "Remember this! We got a personal, hand-delivered invite from both Taylor and Travis. We’ve been close friends with the couple for almost three years, we hang out regularly whenever our busy schedules line up, and Travis and Jonathan have trained together off-season for multiple years now. I have 34 combined Olympic and World Championship medals to my name, I don’t need to leech clout from anyone, especially people I consider close family." She also added a follow-up comment clarifying that she and Owens had skipped a mandatory pre-season NFL team event to attend the wedding, as they were both asked to be part of the couple’s wedding party, a detail she had chosen not to share initially to respect Swift and Kelce’s request for wedding privacy. Her no-nonsense, unapologetic response went viral across Twitter, TikTok and Instagram within hours, with fellow celebrities and fans alike praising her for standing up to unfounded online hate. As noted by TSRStaffJR, the interaction is one of the most talked-about celebrity clapbacks of 2025 so far, with many observers pointing out that trolls often fail to recognize that A-list circles overlap regularly, and public figures do not owe random internet users explanations for their personal, private commitments.
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Yesss Simone! These trolls really be out here acting like the most decorated gymnast in human history needs to clout chase anyone. That "Remember this!" line is going straight into my clapback repertoire, she ate that response so bad 😂
Wait people were really mad about this? Simone and Jonathan are literally friends with Travis through the NFL circuit, it makes total sense they’d be invited. Also can we talk about how stunning Simone’s pale blue lace gown was? She looked unreal the entire night!
I love that she didn’t hold back at all. So many celebrities just ignore trolls but Simone always calls out nonsense head on, that’s why she’s such an icon for so many people. #ClapbackSeason is real and she’s definitely the president of it 😮💨
The fact that she even had to explain this is wild. People will make up entire stories just to be mad at someone for no reason. Glad she shut them down so quickly, no one is allowed to come for Simone like that.