A Timeline of Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s Relationship

The soccer star was noticed Swift’s Eras Tour cease at Kansas Metropolis’s Arrowhead Stadium in July, marking the primary public linking between the 2.

Throughout an episode of his New Heights podcast, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish recounted his foiled plan to start wooing the “Karma” singer. Impressed by the lyric “So make the friendship bracelets / Take the second and style it” from Midnight’s “You’re On Your Personal, Child,” followers have been buying and selling home made jewellery at every Eras Tour cease, and Kelce tried to get in on the development.

“I used to be dissatisfied that she doesn’t speak earlier than or after her exhibits as a result of she has to avoid wasting her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” Kelce mentioned, “so I used to be slightly butt-hurt I didn’t get handy her one of many bracelets I made for her.”

He went on to clarify that the bracelet he needed to offer her had his cellphone quantity on it. Evidently, Kelce’s plan was not profitable. “She doesn’t meet anyone, or a minimum of she didn’t wish to meet me, so I took it private,” he quipped.

Throughout an interview with NFL+ host Andrew Siciliano, Travis considerably addressed the rumors. He confirmed his story about attempting to shoot his shot at Swift through an Eras Tour friendship bracelet, however that’s so far as he’d reveal. “I mentioned what I mentioned. And I meant what I mentioned after I mentioned it. And you understand what, it’s what it’s,” he mentioned earlier than shutting down additional dialog concerning the pair’s relationship standing. “I’m not gonna discuss my private life.”

The tight finish then teased listeners, saying, “I do know what you writers wanna hear, and also you wanna hear extra about that and I’m not gonna offer you something!” When Siciliano requested if Swift had reached out to him, Kelce responded, “And that’s gonna wrap it up right here,” thus ending the interview.

Travis’ brother, Philadelphia Eagles participant Jason Kelce, was additionally requested concerning the pairing during an interview. “I’ve seen these rumors, I can not remark,” he mentioned of romance hypothesis

In the course of the sport between the Chiefs and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday (Sept. 17), NFL announcer Ian Eagle slipped in a couple of Swift lyric references as he referred to as a play from Kelce. “Kelce finds a clean area for the rating!” he mentioned, a callback to Swift’s 2014 Billboard Sizzling 100 chart-topper “Clean Area.”

NFL Community’s Wealthy Eisen loaded in loads of Swift references in his pre-game protection, as he teased, “You noticed it on Thursday night time, when Travis Kelce wasn’t in there, it left a ‘clean area,’ however I believe he returns as we speak and proves to be the ‘anti-hero.’ By no means goes out of ‘type.’”

It was all in good enjoyable, as Kelce himself later commented on Eisen’s medley through Instagram, writing, “Nicely performed Wealthy…. Nicely performed 👏🏻😂.” See the put up here.

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish joined The Pat McAfee Show, the place he revealed that he invited Swift to observe him play. “I threw the ball in her courtroom,” he mentioned. “I informed her, ‘I’ve seen you rock the stage in Arrowhead, you might need to return see me rock the stage in Arrowhead.’ We’ll see what occurs within the close to future.”

He additionally expressed his shock at how a lot publicity their potential relationship has gotten. “It’s hilarious how a lot traction this has really bought,” the 33-year-old mentioned. “I believe it’s, proper now, it’s like that outdated sport in class referred to as ‘Phone,’ the place all people is simply whispering in one another’s ear, simply listening to some random stuff.”

Swift shocked soccer followers and Swifties alike when she spent the day cheering on the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ tight finish from Kelce’s suite alongside his mother, Donna, because the staff performed the Chicago Bears (and received).

The 2 additionally left the stadium collectively, as seen in a clip sports activities reporter Jarrett Payton shared on X. Within the video, the NFL star nods in greeting to the anchor and asks, “The way you doin’” as Tay flashes Payton a smile and says, “Hey!”

Kelce and Swift have been then noticed using off collectively in his convertible, in accordance with photos acquired by TMZ.

Jason and Travis mirrored on the sport of their New Heights podcast. “Shoutout to Taylor for pulling up!” Travis mentioned. “That was fairly ballsy. That was fairly ballsy, yeah. I simply thought it was superior how all people within the suite had nothing however nice issues to say about her, the family and friends — she regarded superb. All people was speaking about her in nice gentle and on prime of that, the day went excellent for Chiefs followers, in fact.”

“To see the slow-motion chest bumps, to see the high-fives with Mother, to see how Chiefs Kingdom was all excited that she was there,” he added. “It was undoubtedly a sport I’ll bear in mind, that’s for d–n positive. Then we simply slid off within the getaway automobile on the finish. Took my Chevelle to the sport.”

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have been set to play the New York Jets, which meant Kelce was in Swift’s space this time — she has a New York Metropolis residence. This time round, it was no shock that the pop icon confirmed up at MetLife Stadium to assist Kelce and his staff. She arrived with a bunch of well-known mates, together with Blake Energetic and Ryan Reynolds.

“Welcome to New York, it’s been ready for you,” the official NFL account tweeted to Swift on X earlier than the sport started, sharing clips of her greeting others on the stadium and having fun with the sport.

After weeks of a rumored romance, Swift and Kelce all however confirmed their budding relationship by arriving hand in hand for the post-show bash at Catch Steak in New York Metropolis following the Saturday Night time Dwell season 49 premiere on Oct. 14.

In the course of the Pete Davidson-hosted episode, the singer and NFL star made separate shock cameos. Swift popped as much as introduce musical visitor Ice Spice’s second music and Kelce appeared towards the top of a hilarious sketch poking enjoyable at NFL’s current obsessive protection of the singer.

Earlier within the night, Swift and Kelce additionally grabbed a pre-show dinner at Nobu in NYC, in accordance with images printed by Page Six, which present the lovebirds holding fingers as soon as once more.

Kansas Metropolis’s Arrowhead Stadium have to be beginning to really feel awfully acquainted to Swift, who confirmed up there in assist of Kelce and his staff once more on Oct. 22 for the Chiefs-Chargers sport. She’s now a repeat visitor on the stadium, having attended a number of Chiefs video games and having introduced her personal present there twice, as soon as on her Popularity Tour and once more on The Eras Tour. On Oct. 22, Swift wore a Chiefs sweatshirt and an ’87’ friendship bracelet in Kelce’s honor, and she or he had enjoyable watching the sport with Brittany Mahomes, the spouse of Kansas Metropolis quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Swift later left the venue with Kelce at her facet, holding fingers on their approach out.

We nonetheless keep in mind that look on his face, when Taylor planted a kiss on his cheek! Someday after the pop famous person attended the Chiefs vs. Chargers sport at Arrowhead Stadium, a photograph of Swift giving the Kansas Metropolis tight finish a candy smooch surfaced on Instagram courtesy of Chariah Gordon, who’s relationship Chiefs’ huge receiver Mecole Hardman.

Now that Swift is again on tour, Kelce was noticed at his first Eras present since July, which was when the 2 have been first publicly linked. The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish attended her Buenos Aires, Argentina, live performance Saturday night time (Nov. 11). In fan-filmed clips that have been instantly posted to social media, the soccer star was seen within the VIP tent at Estadio River Plate — with Swift’s dad, Scott, by his facet. The night time earlier than, Swift and Kelce have been seen out to dinner at Argentinian steakhouse Elena, a restaurant within the 4 Seasons Resort.

However it was the final act of the live performance that actually bought the gang’s consideration: Swift swapped the “Karma” lyric “Karma is the man within the display screen coming straight dwelling to me” for “Karma is the man on the Chiefs coming straight dwelling to me,” after which bumped into Kelce’s arms to kiss him as soon as the present wrapped.

In an in-depth interview with the Wall Road Journal, Kelce defined what precisely went down in between his friendship bracelet cellphone quantity fiasco and Swift’s first sport day spent at Arrowhead Stadium. Revealing that Swift reached out to him after somebody on her staff — or presumably a member of the family — put him on her radar, Kelce additionally shared that he and the pop star had already been speaking for a while earlier than they first met in individual in New York.

Taylor and Travis bought within the vacation spirit collectively on the primary of December by attending a vacation bar in Kansas Metropolis with Patrick and Brittany Mahomes. In fan pictures that surfaced from the night time, hosted at Miracle Pop Up, each the “Christmas Tree Farm” singer and tight finish donned festive sweaters, in the meantime the Mahomes’ sported matching reindeer onesies.

The pop famous person opened up about when her romance with Travis Kelce started for TIME, who named her its Particular person of the 12 months. “This all began when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I believed was metallic as hell … We began hanging out proper after that,” she shared of the July 26 episode of his New Heights podcast, wherein he revealed that he had made a friendship bracelet together with his cellphone quantity to offer her when he attended her July 8 Eras Tour present at Kansas Metropolis’s Arrowhead Stadium.

“By the point I went to that first sport, we have been a pair,” she revealed. “I believe some individuals assume that they noticed our first date at that sport? We might by no means be psychotic sufficient to onerous launch a primary date.”

Taylor and Travis have been one another’s New 12 months’s kisses as they rang in 2024 at a celebration. The scene regarded like one thing out of, nicely, a Taylor Swift music, with the singer trying princess-like in a glittery robe as confetti rained down overhead.

On the Chiefs’ playoff sport towards the Buffalo Payments, Taylor lastly bought to satisfy Travis’ brother, Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce, and sister-in-law Kylie Kelce. And Jason undoubtedly made fairly the impression — on each the singer-songwriter and the remainder of America: A number of movies of him within the field guzzling beer together with his shirt off and leaping into the stands to mingle with Payments followers afterward went viral.

“Tay mentioned she completely liked you,” Travis revealed after the sport on the brothers’ joint podcast New Heights.

“I’m not going to lie, I gave Kylie a heads-up,” recalled Jason. “The second we get into the suite, I mentioned, ‘I’m taking my shirt off and leaping out of that suite.’ And she or he mentioned, ‘Jason don’t you dare.’” 

“She was already telling me to be on my finest habits ’trigger we have been assembly Taylor, so she’s like, ‘Don’t. Be in your finest habits,’” he added. “I used to be like, ‘Kylie, the primary day I met you I used to be blackout drunk and fell asleep on the bar. That is a part of the allure. That is a part of the Jason Kelce allure. I wanna make my finest first impression.’” 

Throughout a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs press convention, Travis gave an replace about how he and Taylor are dealing with the general public’s consideration to their relationship. “So long as we’re comfortable, we are able to’t take heed to something that’s outdoors noise,” he informed reporters. “Thats all that issues.”

The athlete added, “I introduced this upon myself, and I do take pleasure in having enjoyable with all of it, and the most important factor is ensuring my focus is correct right here on this constructing.”

Travis had Swifties of their feels when, minutes after the Chiefs received towards the Baltimore Ravens on the AFC Championship gam — incomes Kansas Metropolis a spot within the Tremendous Bowl for a second yr in a row — he informed Taylor he liked her.

“Tay, I’m going to take pleasure in with the fellows,” he informed the pop star, who had joined him on the sector, earlier than kissing her. “I really like you.” 

Then, wrapping Tay in a decent hug, he added, “A lot it’s not humorous.” 

Different candy moments from the sport embody Taylor cheering Travis on together with his household in a field suite at M&T Financial institution Stadium in Maryland, kissing him a number of occasions on the sector, and adoringly watching him give a speech to Chiefs Kingdom.

By this level, Taylor had already confirmed that she and Travis have been a pair earlier than she ever stepped foot in Arrowhead Stadium to observe the Chiefs-Bears sport in September 2023. However throughout a go to to the The Pat McAfee Present in late January, the athlete lastly revealed the near-exact place to begin of the Tayvis timeline.

“We had identified one another for near a month as much as that time,” he mentioned. “It wasn’t simply an out of the blue, ‘Hey, come to the sport.’”

Which means Travis began courting the singer both on the finish of August or the very starting of September 2023.

“I adore it when Taylor comes and helps me and enjoys the sport with the fam and mates,” Kelce informed McAFee. “It’s been nothing however a beautiful yr, man.” 

Simply hours after closing out her ultimate Eras present in Tokyo, Swift arrived at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas to cheer on Kelce and the Chiefs at Tremendous Bowl LVIII. She wore a pink bomber jacket, bejeweled black pants and an “87” necklace — plus her signature pink lip, in fact.

The pop star’s posse included Blake Energetic, Ice Spice, Lana Del Rey and Swift’s dad and mom, Scott and Andrea, who joined her in chatting with the Kelce household earlier than the sport.

Forward of Taylor’s exhibits in Sydney, Travis flew out to satisfy the star in Australia and joined her on a date to the Sydney Zoo on Feb. 22. The pair held fingers and took selfies as they checked out the animals.

The subsequent day, Travis danced alongside to his girlfriend’s Feb. 23 set from a VIP tent with Katy Perry, Rita Ora and Baz Luhrmann, and exchanged friendship bracelets with followers at Accor Stadium. Towards the top of her efficiency, Taylor as soon as once more devoted an up to date “Karma” lyric to the athlete: “Karma is the man on the Chiefs coming straight dwelling to me.”

After the present, the singer emerged from backstage and kissed Travis within the wings.

Swift made a uncommon look at Coachella with Kelce on her arm because the couple attended Ice Spice and Bleachers’ competition units, packing on the PDA and dancing alongside within the crowds. “I completely love dwell music,” the tight finish later mentioned of the expertise on New Heights. “Our man Jack Antonoff completely ripped it.”

“I prefer to see it from the followers’ perspective, ‘trigger I’m, I’m a fan of music,” he added of opting to observe the “Munch” rapper’s efficiency with Swift from the pit as a substitute of a VIP space. “I wish to see it from the entrance of the stage … I believe it’s that rather more of an expertise for those who’re within the pit, for those who’re within the insanity with all of the followers.”

When The Tortured Poets Division dropped promptly at midnight April 19, 2024, followers have been fast to note that one of many 16 foremost tracks on Swift’s new album undoubtedly gave the impression to be an ode to Kelce. That’s primarily due to the a number of soccer vocab phrases the pop star sprinkled all through the observe, which finds her swooning over an intense, chemically mounted attraction to a brand new lover.

“Once I contact down, name the amateurs and reduce ’em from the staff,” Swift sings on “The Alchemy.” “These blokes heat the benches/ We’ve been on a successful streak/ He jokes that ‘It’s heroin, however this time with an E.’”

“Shirts off and your pals elevate you up over their heads,” she continues in a bridge filled with lyrics paying homage to the couple’s post-Tremendous Bowl celebrations. “Beer sticking to the ground, cheers chanted ’trigger they mentioned/ There was no probability attempting to be the best within the league/ The place’s the trophy? He simply comes operating over to me.”

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Whereas auctioning off 4 Eras Tour tickets on behalf of Swift on the 15 and The Mahomies Basis charity gala in Las Vegas, Kelce lovingly referred to the pop star as his “important different.”

“I used to be simply speaking to my important different, and we’d have one different public sale merchandise that wasn’t on the docket,” he mentioned in a coy voice. “Has anyone heard of The Eras Tour?”

As bids rose as excessive as $80,000 for the seats, Swift cheered Kelce on from her spot at Brittany Mahomes’ desk. The couple additionally held fingers as they walked by means of the venue, trying beautiful of their night apparel.

At her first Eras Tour live performance following the discharge of The Tortured Poets Division, Swift added a number of new numbers from the album to her three-hour showcase — together with “So Excessive College,” which followers consider she wrote about Kelce. The comeback exhibits came about in Paris, with the soccer participant in attendance. (“It’s completely unbelievable,” he later gushed. “I loved each little bit of it … I don’t know in the event that they’re simply getting higher or if I simply preserve forgetting how they’re.”)

In the course of the music, the singer additionally appeared to pay tribute to her beau’s staff by swag browsing together with her dancers, a Chiefs Kingdom custom.

Swift and Kelce shocked the gang at Wembley Stadium in London when the NFL star joined his famous person girlfriend on stage, stepping out in a tuxedo and prime hat halfway by means of the Tortured Poets Division set. In clips from the cameo, the athlete carries the singer in his arms, followers her, dusts her face with a make-up brush and hilariously coaches her on tips on how to dance earlier than her subsequent quantity: “I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart.”

The next day, Swift shared images and video from Kelce’s efficiency and wrote, “I’m nonetheless cracking up/swooning over @killatrav’s Eras Tour debut 🥰”

Throughout an look on the Bussin’ With the Boys podcast, Kelce mirrored on the second he first realized he was falling in love with Swift. “The primary sport she got here to towards the Bears, I used to be like, ‘I might most likely set you up with every little thing,’” he recalled. “And she or he simply walked by means of the entrance door. There was no happening, speaking to safety … She was similar to, ‘I wish to be across the household and mates and expertise this with all people.’”

The tight finish additionally opened up about feeling pleased with his relationship. “You wish to preserve issues personal, however on the similar time, I’m not right here to cover something,” he defined. “That’s my lady. That’s my woman. I’m pleased with that. I’m not sitting right here attempting to juggle, ‘How can I preserve this beneath wraps?’”

Nearly a yr into their romance, Swift lastly posted an image with Kelce on her Instagram grid. Their selfie additionally simply so occurred to incorporate Prince William and two of his three youngsters — Prince George and Princess Charlotte — who attended one of many singer’s Eras Tour exhibits at Wembley Stadium.

“Dude, he was the good motherf—-r,” Travis later mentioned on New Heights of the elder prince. “He was so cool. They have been an absolute delight to satisfy. Wasn’t positive if I used to be presupposed to bow to them, curtsy, simply be an American fool and shake their hand … We needed to be well mannered, particularly on this facet of the park.”

In a viral second from one in all Swift’s Dublin concert events, the singer appeared to gentle up with pleasure upon recognizing Kelce coming into the venue. After the present, the tight finish escorted his girlfriend out of the backstage space and gestured to the encircling followers to offer her some well-earned applause, making her blush.

Whereas on the town, the couple additionally reportedly hit up a bar alongside Eras opener Paramore and Stevie Nicks.

Kelce was current at Swift’s Eras cease in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the place fan cameras noticed him dancing alongside to the three-hour-plus set and proudly filming his girlfriend as she sang “So Excessive College,” which followers are fairly sure Swift wrote about him.

He was additionally in attendance on the star’s present the next night time, instantly after which he assumed his unofficial responsibility of strolling her out from the backstage space.

A pair days after Patrick Mahomes revealed that Swift enjoys drawing up her personal performs for the Chiefs, Kelce confirmed his girlfriend’s pastime in an interview with The Wealthy Eisen Present.

“She had simply been so open to studying the sport,” he defined. “She didn’t know a lot concerning the guidelines and every little thing … She’s simply so detailed and part of it, that I believe she was simply curious concerning the career. I do know not one of the performs have gotten to Coach [Andy] Reid but. In the event that they ever do, I’ll let everybody understand it was her creation.”

He added, “She’s slightly biased and simply creates performs for me.”

After the web began circulating paperwork that allegedly outlined what Kelce’s PR technique can be if he and Swift ever broke up, the tight finish’s staff was fast to debunk them.

“These paperwork are completely false and fabricated and weren’t created, issued, or approved by this company,” said a spokesperson for Full Scope Public Relations, which represents Kelce. “We have now engaged our authorized staff to provoke proceedings towards the people or entities liable for the illegal and injurious forgery of paperwork.”