For those who’ve been on TikTok this week, you’ve most likely heard the title Scott Kelly.
On November 10, TikTok person @your.woman.jen posted a video of the person in entrance of her at a Jonas Brothers live performance scrolling by means of the resume for a person named Scott Kelly.
Within the on-screen textual content, she wrote, “scott kelly your resume was being reviewed at a jonas brothers live performance tonight. good luck.”
The brief, seven-second video shortly went viral on-line and has acquired over 52 million views on the time of publication.
The video went so viral that even the Jonas Brothers themselves noticed it, every commenting to playfully vouch that Kelly ought to get the job, regardless that that they had by no means met him.
Or, slightly, they hadn’t met him but on the time of the viral video.
Now, the viral sensation and the three brothers have grow to be nicely acquainted due to just a little assist from Jimmy Fallon, who took it upon himself to orchestrate a gathering between them on the newest episode of The Tonight Present.
With the Jonas Brothers already seated on the stage, Fallon revealed he had a shock for them as he welcomed Kelly to come back on out and formally meet them.
After Kelly shook all of their palms, Joe Jonas stated to the viewers excitedly, “I do know that is Scott Kelly as a result of I noticed his LinkedIn. That is undoubtedly him.”
“Yeah, they discovered me!” Kelly responded, grinning. Fallon then requested him to catch everybody up on how issues have been for him the previous few days.
“It’s been an attention-grabbing week,” Kelly started. He then defined that whereas he was sitting in one in every of his lessons for his MBA program, a pal texted him to tell him that he was going viral on TikTok.
As a result of Kelly didn’t even have an account on TikTok, he naturally didn’t consider his pal. Then, as extra folks started to message him about it, Kelly lastly took the plunge and downloaded TikTok to see the video for himself. After seeing it together with his personal eyes, Kelly lastly realized that he was, actually, the topic of the viral video.
Kelly additionally defined that the video, which was posted the night time earlier than Veterans Day, additionally ended up having very particular timing. It turned out that Kelly and the person who was reviewing his resume within the video had been in the identical infantry battalion within the U.S. Military in 2014, and so they had been now each working as civilians in upstate New York.
After Kelly gave everybody a little bit of backstory, naturally, there was one vital query that Fallon then needed to ask: “Did you get the job?”
“So, I by no means really utilized for a job,” Kelly defined, a lot to the confusion of the viewers, Fallon, and the Jonas Brothers.
The rationale the person within the video was taking a look at Kelly’s resume was that he’s the president of a house providers firm in Buffalo, New York. As a veteran himself, he likes to be looking out for different veteran expertise he might attempt to carry into the corporate.
Whereas Kelly isn’t planning on becoming a member of the corporate, some excellent news nonetheless got here out of the 2 connecting.
“He and I are gonna hyperlink up, he’s really approaching a podcast that I host known as ‘On the Water’s Edge.’ It’s a nationwide safety podcast, and we’re gonna be speaking about how the veteran neighborhood can do extra to assist one another after we transition out of service, cuz it’s a tough trip for many of us,” Kelly shared.
The Jonas Brothers sat in awe, listening to Kelly’s story, earlier than Joe stated, “That is superior,” and Kevin Jonas added, “I’m, like, in shock!”
“Can I share an actual factor? I had by no means heard of you earlier than this. My spouse needed to inform me,” Kelly admitted, whereas the viewers laughed. “I didn’t have Disney Channel rising up! I didn’t know!”
He then shortly clarified, “Hey, I’m an enormous fan now! I really like you guys,” to which Joe responded, “We love you, Scott Kelly!” because the viewers applauded.
