Travis Kelce proposed to Taylor Swift two weeks ago, according to the NFL star’s father.
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The couple, who have been in a relationship since 2023, announced their engagement yesterday (August 26). They shared a series of photographs showing the singer and the Kansas City tight end embracing in a garden.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift captioned the post, which also included a close-up shot of her engagement ring.
The news came shortly after Swift announced her 12th album, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’, during her first-ever appearance on the New Heights podcast, hosted by Kelce and his brother Jason.
Speaking to ABC News 5 Cleveland, Kelce’s dad, Ed, shared some details about his son and daughter-in-law’s engagement. “Travis actually did the proposal maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago,” he told the station.
“He was going to put it off till this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off till this week, to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big special event.”
Ed went on to share some advice he had given Travis ahead of the big moment: “You know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.”
Travis proposed at a garden in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, according to the outlet.
“He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘Let’s go out and have a glass of wine’. They got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,” Ed explained.
He revealed that the couple then FaceTimed members of their close family to share the happy news. At the time, Ed was at a Philadelphia Eagles public practice; Jason Kelce retired from the team last year.
“As soon as I saw the FaceTime, I saw it was Travis, and then I saw Taylor there with him, I knew what they were going to say, and they let us know,” Ed remembered. “About a week ago, I asked Travis, ‘So when are you going to announce the engagement? He said, ‘Whenever Taylor says so’.”
He explained: “To just watch the two of them, just crazy about each other. It’s truly kinda neat. They’re just two young people very much in love.”
New details about Swift and Kelce’s relationship are reportedly set to be revealed in a new Kansas City Chiefs documentary.
Kelce recently discussed their relationship and his admiration for Swift’s epic, three-hour ‘Eras Tour’ shows. “I hadn’t experienced somebody in the same shoes as me, having a partner who understands the scrutiny, the ups and downs of being in front of millions,” he said. “That was very relatable, seeing how exhausted she would get after shows.”
Swift has attended the last two Super Bowls to support Kelce, helping the 2024 game become the most-watched broadcast in US TV history since the 1969 moon landing. This year, her reaction to being booed by Eagles fans at the event went viral.
In late 2023, the NFL said that it was “very happy” with Swift and Kelce’s relationship, as it helped bring even more fans and momentum to the world of American football. It also defended its extensive coverage of the singer coming out to watch Kelce play, despite backlash from some football fans.
‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ was co-produced by Max Martin and Shellback, alongside Swift herself. The pop star has shared the full tracklist for the album, which boasts a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter on the title track.
Swift has described the follow-up to last year’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ as “the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time”. The project will focus on “what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life” during the record-breaking ‘Eras Tour’.
The singer remembered that time as being “so exuberant and electric and vibrant”, adding: “It just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life.” Swift recorded the album in Sweden, in between shows on the huge tour.
Speaking on New Heights, Swift explained that there are “no other songs coming” beyond the standard tracklist: “With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, I was like, ‘Here’s a data dump of everything I thought and felt in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs’. This is 12. There’s not a 13th, there’s not other ones coming.”
