The secret first date that changed everything: How Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift fell in love away from the spotlight
Two years ago,
Travis Kelce
was just another
NFL
star shooting his shot with a pop icon. Now, he and
Taylor Swift
are celebrating two years of dating—a relationship that almost never began. Back in July 2023, Kelce attended Swift's Eras Tour stop in Kansas City, hoping to hand-deliver a friendship bracelet with his number on it.
But when he failed to meet her backstage, he shared the disappointment publicly on his New Heights podcast.
How Travis Kelce's podcast blunder caught Taylor Swift's attention
Travis Kelce's viral podcast confession and a missed backstage moment at Taylor Swift's concert sparked a secret romance that quietly blossomed into a two-year love story few saw coming.
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'I was a little butthurt I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her,' Kelce confessed, noting Swift doesn't meet fans before or after shows.
But that vulnerability may have been the key. As Swift later revealed in her TIME interview, 'It all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell.'
Taylor Swift was freshly single—and paying attention
Swift had just ended her brief relationship with Matty Healy and was navigating the aftermath of her breakup with longtime partner
Joe Alwyn
. On July 7, she posted to Instagram, 'Happy belated Independence Day from your local neighborhood independent girlies,' subtly signaling she was open to something new.
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The next day, Kelce showed up to her show. What he didn't know was that someone in Swift's circle was playing Cupid.
'There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was… I had somebody playing Cupid,' Kelce revealed later in a WSJ Magazine profile. One of those early helpers? Her cousins, who snapped pictures near his locker at Arrowhead Stadium.
A secret New York date sparked a private start to their love story
Weeks later, while Swift was in between tour stops, the two finally met in New York City.
'When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking,' Kelce recalled. Their low-key dinner helped the couple avoid public pressure and grow closer without outside noise.
'By the time I went to that first game [in September], we were a couple,' Swift shared, dismissing speculation that their Arrowhead Stadium outing was their first date. 'We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.'
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Now, with two years behind them, it's clear Kelce's bold move paid off. 'You miss 100 percent of [the shots] you don't take, baby,' he said on New Heights. Turns out, one bracelet and one viral moment turned into a love story for the ages.
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