It's official: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. The couple announced the happy news with a shared Instagram post. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift wrote alongside a series of photos of the pair. Wearing a striped Polo Ralph Lauren dress, the singer showed off her dazzling ring alongside her new fiancé.
Kelce popped the all-important question with a vintage 10-carat cushion-cut diamond, which was set in a ring created by New York City-based designer Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewellery.
The news comes after a source told Entertainment Tonight over a year ago – on May 17, 2024, to be exact – that the couple’s inner circle saw a proposal coming. The insider said then, “Taylor and Travis are doing amazing, and their loved ones see an engagement coming sooner than later. They make a great match and there’s no question about that.”
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Swift and Kelce started dating secretly during the summer of 2023 after Kelce spoke on his podcast, New Heights, about his failed attempt to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during her Kansas City Eras tour show that July. In September 2023, they publicly revealed their relationship when Swift attended a Kansas City Chiefs football game.
Swift told Time in December 2023 that their romance “started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell”. She continued: “We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew [about], which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game [on September 24], we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”
Kelce first spoke in detail about Swift during a November 2023 interview with WSJ magazine. He shared that she contacted him after hearing the friendship bracelet story. “She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out,” he said.
He said he kept his cool on their first date. “When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there,” he recalled.
He has since offered effusive praise of her. Even then, he told WSJ, “I’ve never been a man of words. Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been fucking mind-blowing. I’m learning every day.”
