Taylor Swift announces engagement to Travis Kelce
“He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring…”
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged!
The couple announced the good news in a joint Instagram post on Wednesday, Aug. 27, sharing some snaps from the NFL star's marriage proposal with the global pop singer's So High School being played in the background.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” they wrote in the caption.
Swift and Kelce started dating in 2023 after the singer performed at Arrowhead Stadium—home of Kelce's Chiefs. He explained on the New Heights podcast at the time that he was disappointed he did not have a chance to meet her and give her his phone number at the show.
Swift said she was charmed by the public declaration of interest. The gesture made her feel like she was "in an '80s John Hughes movie, and he was just like, standing outside of my window with a boombox and being like, 'I want to date you,'" she said on the episode.
She said she thought, "If this guy isn't crazy, which is a big if, this is sort of what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager."
Their relationship became public when she appeared at a Chiefs game to cheer on Kelce in September 2023.
"We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other," Swift told Time in 2023, when the magazine named her Person of the Year. "By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple."
The singer appeared at several Chiefs games, including two Super Bowls, and sparked some criticism from NFL fans that TV networks showed her on camera too often and drew attention away from the game.
Kelce attended many stops on Swift's record-setting Eras Tour, which grossed more than $2 billion before concluding in December 2024. At a show in London, Kelce surprised the crowd by taking the stage briefly in a tuxedo and top hat and carrying Swift to a couch during I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.
Swift this month announced her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, on New Heights, which Kelce hosts with his brother, former NFL player Jason Kelce.
The Shake It Off and Blank Space singer has often written songs about relationship troubles.
She said her upcoming Showgirl album, set for release on Oct. 3, will be joyful because "life is more upbeat."
Kelce will start his 13th regular season with the Chiefs in September. (with reports from Lisa Richwine, Reuters)
