After Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Tuesday (Aug. 26), social media exploded with well-wishes for the superstar couple — from ecstatic fans and the pair’s famous friends alike.
Celebrity reactions included Sabrina Carpenter, who is the only featured artist on Swift’s upcoming The Life of a Showgirl album, teaming up with her Eras tourmate for the project’s title track. On Instagram Stories, Carpenter shared 10 white hearts above an engagement photo of the couple embracing with their foreheads touching.
Charlie Puth shared the same photo on his Instagram Stories, writing above it: “Congratulations Taylor & Travis! This is the best part of life. So happy for you both!!” Puth was in his own #EngagementEra last year, before marrying longtime family friend Brooke Sansone in September 2024.
Jelly Roll couldn’t contain his all-caps excitement on Instagram Stories, writing, “Let’s go TRAV AND TAYLOR! Congrats big dog! @killatrav love looks good on you bubba.”
Avril Lavigne shared the engagement post too, writing on Instagram Stories: “Awww huge congratulations to @taylorswift and @killatrav.” She finished her message with three ring emojis and three shimmering pink heart emojis. Chainsmokers DJ/producer Alex Pall chimed in on Instagram Stories too, with a message for the NFL star: “Shout out to the lover boy @killatrav.”
Beyond Swift’s fellow pop stars, Kelce’s football family also weighed in on the news, with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sharing three red hearts on Instagram Stories alongside the engagement post, and his wife Brittany writing on IG: “Two of the most genuine people meet & fall in love. Just so happy for these two.”
Gracie Hunt, daughter of Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt, shared her “congratulations” on Instagram Stories, adding, “so happy for you two.” She also released a statement to People, which read: “I can’t stop smiling — Travis and Taylor’s engagement feels like a modern fairytale unfolding in real life. Their love story has captured so many hearts, and now it’s stepping into an even more magical chapter.”
Some more of Swift’s high-profile friends sent messages too, with Taylor’s childhood bestie Abigail (name-dropped on her Fearless single “Fifteen”) simply writing, “This ❤️,” above the engagement news on Instagram Stories, while supermodel/actress and longtime #Squad member Cara Delevingne wrote “@taylorswift + @killatrav” with 14 hearts-on-fire emojis.
After President Trump’s surprisingly supportive reaction to the engagement news earlier Tuesday, another vocal Swift critic, conservative host Megyn Kelly, shared that she was “rooting” for the couple — among other less-cheerful words. “I am rooting for them,” Kelly wrote on her website, after saying that Swift lost her when “she went political and, like anybody who does that in the arts, they risk alienating half the country.” Kelly’s essay continued: “I don’t think it is a coincidence that the person she ultimately decided to settle down with is a real man, is a football player, is a tough guy who doesn’t really take a lot of sh– from people. That is generally attractive to most women. I think it is no accident that this gal from the south [Note: Swift is from Pennsylvania] who started out singing country songs found him attractive, and he was ultimately the one who won her heart. I also think it is obvious the reasons why he would be attracted to Taylor Swift, so I am rooting for them.”
Swift and Kelce had nothing but support from tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who simply shared a clapping emoji alongside the news on X.
After sharing the role of King Herod in this month’s Jesus Christ Superstar live production at the Hollywood Bowl, actors John Stamos and Josh Gad once again teamed up to congratulate Taylor and Travis, lip-syncing to Swift’s Billboard Hot 100 top five hit “Love Story” while riding the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World. “When you hear the happiest news at the happiest place on earth,” the pair captioned the video, asking in their collab Instagram post: “Where were you when you heard the news?”
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay gave Stamos and Gad a run for their money, as he perfectly played off Swift and Kelce’s original “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married” caption in his own Instagram post. “From one ring to the next,” Ramsay wrote alongside a photo of himself with Kelce on the field for the 2023 Super Bowl, in which Kelce’s Chiefs beat the Eagles. “Congrats @killatrav & @taylorswift ! From your favourite Home Ec Teacher.”
