“They showed up at Hell’s Kitchen Las Vegas and demanded a table, even though the restaurant books out months in advance,” an online article read.

On Feb. 13, 2024, Latherland.com published an article positing that celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay had kicked pop singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, out of his Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Las Vegas. The story was published two days after the Kelce won his third Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs in a victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, which was played in Las Vegas.

The article went on to say that Ramsay “yelled obscenities at them” and then “had them tazed and dropped on the sidewalk.”

This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. Latherland.com is a subsidiary of America’s Last Line of Defense — a network of websites that all contain disclaimer pages that explain how they publish “parody, satire and tomfoolery.”

In other words, the rumor about Ramsay, Swift and Kelce was completely made up.