Taylor Swift Finally Confirms When She and Travis Kelce Became a Couple
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 15: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are seen leaving the SNL after party on October 15, 2023 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
TIME's Person of the Year is finally confirming the origin story for the world's Couple of the Year!
That is, for the first time, Taylor Swift is speaking out about her relationship with Travis Kelce, revealing exactly when the two started seeing each other after a whirlwind of publicity.
While the widely beloved couple wasn't shy about being spotted together in public, it took a fair amount of time for them to officially hard-launch their relationship when Swift changed the lyrics to "Karma" to say "Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me" before leaping into his arms in front of the crowd at one of the final Eras Tour shows of the year.
It took even longer for either of them to formally address things, with Kelce playing coy on occasion on his podcast before finally opening up about the "inside job" of establishing their relationship, where a member or members unknown of Swift's team helped him link up with her after his failed endeavor to slip her his phone number via friendship bracelet.
Now, in her first interview in quite some time with TIME's Sam Lansky, Swift is offering a little insight into things, too—calling her NFL beau's public plea to her "metal as hell."
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast," she explained, calling back to an episode of New Heights where he detailed the way he tried and failed to get her attention at the concert.
It was right after the podcast aired that the two began hanging out, giving them "a significant amount of time" where nobody had even an inkling that anything was going on, and allowing them to get to know one another without any scrutiny.
While some may have seen the first game she attended as their first date, she clarified, "We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.” But, now that they're official, there's nothing for them to hide.
"I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she continued. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”
While she's "just there to support Travis," she's still frequently captured by fans and news cameras alike, which some viewers are getting tired of. Swift is certainly not to blame, though.
“I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in,” she said. “There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”
As a result, she has “no awareness of if [she's] being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
At this point, we feel pretty confident that she doesn't care if she is, anyway—it's clear each game she attends that her sole focus is on her man and his team.
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