Taylor Swift's trivial act at restaurant leaves influencer 'mortified'

Daily Mail​

24-06-2025

Influencer Serena Kerrigan spilled on her awkward encounter with Taylor Swift.
The social media personality, 31, revealed she was left 'mortified' after Swift, 35, politely declined her offer of a free copy of one of Kerrigan's Let's F***ing Date card games while on a night out.
The two women were in the same restaurant when Kerrigan took the initiative to approach the All Too Well singer.
She told the story on the latest episode of iHeartRadio's Casual Chaos podcast with Gia Giudice.
'Recently, [I] went to a restaurant and I heard that Taylor Swift was there. And I was like, 'I have to give her my card game,' Kerrigan explained.
'And so [my boyfriend] Felix [Levine] was at home, and he put my card game in an Uber package. I left the restaurant. Millions of paparazzi, fans, were already waiting outside.'
Kerrigan continued, 'So I was like, "OK, she's here."
'I grabbed the card game and I'm sitting there. And we went to The Corner Store, eating everything, drinking everything, everyone's filing out of the restaurant.'
This was some time ago as Swift was dining with her boyfriend Travis Kelce as well as Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
As the quartet left the restaurant, Kerrigan waited for her opportunity.
'I literally was like, "Hi, I'm such a fan. And I created this card game. I think you would really love it."
'And she literally looked at it and she goes, "Oh, my God, thank you so much. But no, thank you. But thank you,"' Kerrigan said.
'Like, it was so sweet. I don't think she could take it from me. … There could have been like poison. It looks like a cigarette.'
Kerrigan said the Bejeweled singer's reaction was 'so sweet,' but she was still 'mortified' by being turned down.
'I was like, "Oh my God, I put her in this position where she had to say no."
'But then, I got over it because it's such an iconic story for the plot. Who cares that she said no?' Kerrigan added.
'And by the way, I kept the game that she rejected.
'One day I'm going to meet her, and I'm going to be like, "Funny story," and we're going to be besties. It's all good.'
'I was so scared. Even afterwards, I obviously felt about, like, "Oh my god, rejection."
But I was like, "Wait, this was literally so sick." And like, we interacted. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. I'm so glad that I did it,' she concluded.
She shared the video of her trying to hand the package to Swift on Instagram last month.
'Gotta shoot my shot,' she captioned the post.
Serena is an actress currently appearing on Peacock's Older, Hotter Wiser
She came up with her social media alter ego SFK. or Serena F***ing Kerrigan – to project confidence through her bouts of insecurity.
She turned that personal into a brand.
During Covid lockdowns she launched "Let's F***ing Date, a series of card games aimed at helping players take on the world of dating.