The pair have been dating for two years
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. The global pop superstar and football star shared the news jointly on their socials today (Tues, Aug 26th).
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” they share with a series of engagement photos.
The couple’s relationship began in 2023 and has since been a major topic of public interest.
The relationship’s origin story, as recounted by both Swift and Kelce, started with a missed connection. In July 2023, Kelce attended one of Swift’s Eras Tour shows at Arrowhead Stadium, the home of his team, the Kansas City Chiefs. He attempted to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it, but was unable to get it to her. He later talked about the failed attempt on his podcast, New Heights, which Swift found “metal as hell.” This public gesture led to Swift reaching out to him, and they began “hanging out” shortly after. They kept their relationship private for a significant amount of time before Swift’s first public appearance at a Chiefs game in September 2023, where she was seen with Kelce’s mother, Donna Kelce.
Details of the nutputials have not been shared.
Swift is set to release her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, on October 3rd via Republic Records.
Last spring, Swift released her 11th full-length studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, which shattered countless records upon release, including the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, landed on top of the Billboard Hot 100, marking Taylor’s seventh Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 debut, and her 12th overall No. 1 on the chart. The project makes Swift the only artist to ever hold the entire top 14 on the Hot 100. It also breaks the record for most consecutive new albums with a Hot 100 No. 1 hit with eight and broke the record for most simultaneous Hot 100 debuts with 31.
In May, Swift unveiled that she purchased the masters to her first six albums, after a long battle with her former label, Big Machine. In 2019, current label owner Scooter Braun, who’s Ithaca Holdings LLC purchased the label mid-2019, sold them to Shamrock Holdings for upwards of $300 million. Swift says she had attempted to purchase the masters to no avail while also being caught up in live performing rights of the same songs. She decided to re-record her first six projects, four of which have been released and broke records with her fans clamoring for more.
Last year, Pollstar named crowned Swift with the record for the highest-grossing tour of all time with The Eras Tour. The 21-month trek, which kicked off in 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, and wrapped in December 2024 in Vancouver with her 149th show, grossed over $2.077 billion in ticket sales, doubling the gross ticket sales of any other concert in history. Over 10.168 million people attended the shows worldwide, the first for any solo artist.
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