It’s a love story, and Taylor Swift said yes.
The superstar and Travis Kelce, who have been dating since 2023, announced that they’re engaged to be married in a joint post on Instagram on Tuesday afternoon.
The couple joked to their fans ‘Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,’ alongside a five-photo carousel of Swift and Kelce surrounded by flowers with Travis on one knee. While there’s no word on when the nuptials will take place, well wishes immediately started pouring in from the worlds of music, sports and more for the mega-famous couple.
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Swift + Kelce special edition
Taylor Swift’s engagement ring: What to know about the old mine diamond
Swift and Kelce’s Instagram post announcing their engagement featured a close-up shot of the singer’s engagement ring, and the USA TODAY Network can confirm it was created by Kindred Lubeck with Artifex Fine Jewelry.
It’s an old mine brilliant cut, with a gold band that matched the Cartier watch she’s also wearing in the photos.
NFL, athletes celebrate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes reposted the announcement to his Instagram story accompanied by three heart emojis. “New Heights,” the Kelce brothers’ podcast, shared the clip of Jason Kelce asking Travis about the concert he attended two years ago and then a picture of the engagement in the “how it started, how it’s going” meme format.
The NFL’s official social media account reposted a picture from the proposal and also shared a clip of Kelce and Swift after the Chiefs’ victory in Super Bowl 58, with Swift telling Kelce, “I’m in shock, I can’t believe this is really happening,” as confetti fell.
Second-ranked women’s tennis player Iga Swiatek – and noted Swiftie – had news of the engagement broken to her on ESPN’s set of the network’s coverage at the US Open and replied “Oh my God, I’m so happy for her.”
Trump to Swift and Kelce: ‘I wish them a lot of luck’
President Donald Trump hasn’t always been Taylor Swift’s biggest fan, but he had warm wishes for the musician and her football player finance Travis Kelce on their engagement.
‘I think he’s a great player. I think he’s a great guy,’ Trump said at the White House Aug. 26. ‘And I think that she’s a terrific person, so I wish them a lot of luck.’
Trump has repeatedly slammed Swift, who endorsed his 2024 Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.
‘Just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift,’ Trump wrote in an Aug. 4 social media post. ‘Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT. The tide has seriously turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be.’
– Zac Anderson
How long have Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce been together?
The real-life rom com played out on a football field and concert stops after Kelce went to the Eras Tour in Kansas City in 2023 with a friendship bracelet that he couldn’t get to the singer.
‘I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,’ Kelce said to his brother, Jason.
Swift reached out to him after he put her on blast on ‘New Heights,’ and the two began dating quietly until they went public when Swift attended the Chiefs vs. Bears game on Sept. 24, 2023. She attended 13 games that season culminating in Super Bowl 58 when Kansas City beat the 49ers.
Kelce visited Swift’s three plus hour show 14 times in Argentina, Australia, Singapore, France, England, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany and Indianapolis.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce engagement overshadows Trump cabinet meeting, interrupts Fox News coverage
Power couple Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. And for a moment, the couple’s news overshadowed the president.
Shortly after Swift’s post, Fox News broke away from their continuous coverage of Trump’s Cabinet meeting in Washington to share the news, according to The Hill.
‘She does have an impeccable sense of timing,’ one commenter posted on X.
‘Stealing Trump’s spotlight is her favorite thing to do,’ another said.
Taylor Swift spotted at NFL games
For the 2024 season, Swift only attended home games at Arrowhead Stadium turning the stadium tunnel into a personal runway. Photographers and reporters snapped pics of her looks from local vintage to designer label fashion. She attended Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans, and the heavily Eagles crowd booed her when she was shown onscreen for a few seconds.
Kelce hard launched their relationship on Instagram at the start of Kansas City training camp in July, posting a carousel of 13 photos with the caption, ‘Had some adventures this offseason, kept it .’ The main photo showed Kelce smiling ear-to-ear in a ‘captain’ gold anchor hat while Swift points to being his ‘first mate.’
In a GQ profile released Aug. 12, Kelce gushed about Swift’s work ethic, stamina and values.
‘When there is not a camera on us, we’re just two people that are in love,’ Kelce said in the piece. ‘It can be perceived as something else because of how much it is talked about and how much we are tracked whenever we do go out, but I would say that it’s as normal of … It happened very organically even though from a media standpoint it was being tracked. It still happened very organically.’
Love lines stringing the eras
You could say Swift has been tying the invisible string between her and the Kansas City tight end since the very beginning. In her debut album on ‘Mary’s Song (Oh My My My),’ she sings: ‘I’ll be eighty-seven; you’ll be eighty-nine / I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine / In the sky, oh my my my.’
His number on the Chiefs is 87, and her album ‘1989’ refers to the year she was born. The singer sang the song as part of a mashup to Kelce on July 6 in Amsterdam.
Kelce is the only guy Swift has changed her lyrics for, and it became a tradition on the Eras Tour. During her song ‘Karma’ from ‘Midnights,’ she switched ‘karma is the guy on the screen’ to ‘karma is the guy on the Chiefs.’ She performed the altered line 14 times when he was in the audience and twice when the Chiefs won a game during her concert.
Finally, cue the songs she may have written with him In mind: ‘The Alchemy’ and ‘So High School’ off ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’ For her 87th show in Paris, she sang, ‘This happens once every few lifetimes,’ to Kelce dancing in a suite above the stadium.
The wristbands on every concert attendees’ wrist glowed bright red and the crowd roared. Swift made ‘The Alchemy’ the closing credit song for the concert, replacing ‘You’re On Your Own Kid.’ She also incorporated ‘So High School’ into her set list for year 2 with moves inspired by Kelce’s end zone dances. In the lyric video, the football lights show a ‘TS’ and ‘TK’ in light pink at 0:43.
Follow Taylor Swift reporter Bryan West on Instagram, TikTok and X as @BryanWestTV.