A University of Tennessee professor went viral after theatrically canceling class upon hearing about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement.
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: This University of Tennessee Professor canceled his class after learning Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged: ‘I can’t focus.’ pic.twitter.com/si91LvaaVx
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A University of Tennessee professor is going viral after dramatically canceling class when news broke of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement.
Professor Matthew Pittman, who teaches advertising and public relations, was filmed telling students, “Taylor and Travis just got engaged. Due to this information, I can’t focus, you all can’t focus. Class is canceled, get outta here. We need time to process this information.”
The students erupted in excitement, with one sprinting for the door as others quickly packed their bags. The clip, posted on Instagram, has already garnered more than 174,000 likes, with fans calling Pittman the “favorite professor ever” and joking he “deserves a wedding invite.”
Pittman later clarified the moment was staged as part of a lesson. “This is pretty big news,” he explained in a follow-up video, predicting the engagement post could become the “number one shared post in the history of social media.”