Taylor Swift is ‘hanging out’ with football player Travis Kelce… after he tried and failed to give single star his phone number two months ago
It looks like Taylor Swift has a new man in her life.
The Eras Tour artist is reportedly dating football star Travis Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. They are both 33 years old.
“Taylor and Travis have been hanging out quietly,” a source said The messenger on Tuesday.
“She saw him when she was in New York City a few weeks ago.”
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Swift and Kelce for comment.
This comes after he revealed how he tried – and failed – to hit on Swift during one of her tour dates in July.
New love? It looks like Taylor Swift has a new man in her life. The Eras Tour artist is reportedly dating 33-year-old football star Travis Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs
She caught his attention: “Taylor and Travis have been hanging out quietly,” a source told The Messenger on Tuesday; seen in August in Arizona
The athlete said that his phone number was engraved on a bracelet, which he wanted to present to the pop star.
However, when he attended one of Taylor’s recent concerts in Kansas City, he failed to meet her backstage.
“So she’s not meeting anyone and she doesn’t – or at least she didn’t want to meet me so I took it personally,” he joked on his podcast New heights.
Travis co-hosts the podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, an NFL player he coincidentally faced during this year’s Super Bowl.
Jason plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, who were defeated in the Super Bowl this year by Travis’ team, the Kansas City Chiefs.
Travis shared on the podcast that when he went to see Taylor in concert, he was “disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs she sings, so I was a little but I unfortunately I couldn’t give her one of the bracelets I made for her.’
The athlete explained, “When you go to Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets, and I received some while I was there, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it.”
Swing and a miss: The attempt came during one of Taylor’s recent shows at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City; she is pictured here on August 24 in Mexico City
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Kelce, right, congratulates Kansas City Chiefs tight end Noah Gray (83) after a catch during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions on September 7 in Kansas City
Although he wasn’t able to meet Taylor in person, he had only warm words for her performance, which he called “an incredible show.”
Jason jokingly surmised that Taylor, who is from Pennsylvania, refused to meet Travis because of her known fondness for the Eagles.
“Well, she’s probably not over the Super Bowl yet. She’s a big Eagles fan, so maybe she just made something up and just didn’t want to talk to you,” he gushed.
Travis had an on-again, off-again relationship with influencer Kayla Nicole for five years, culminating in their latest breakup in 2022.
Meanwhile, Taylor has dated a dizzying array of celebrities, including Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, Joe Jonas, Tom Hiddleston, Taylor Lautner and Calvin Harris.
What a pair: Travis (left) told the story on the podcast he hosts with his brother Jason Kelce (right), an NFL player against whom he coincidentally played in this year’s Super Bowl
As they were: Travis had an on-again, off-again relationship with influencer Kayla Nicole for five years, culminating in their latest breakup in 2022; photo from last February
Taylor’s romance with John was put under renewed scrutiny this year when she released a re-recording of Dear John, the scathing 2010 song she reportedly wrote about him in the wake of their breakup.
In the midst of her legal battle with Scooter Braun over her original masters, Taylor decided years ago to re-record all her old albums and release new ‘Taylor’s Versions’ to which she would own the rights.
Earlier this month, she released “Taylor’s Version” from her 2010 album Speak Now, which featured the original edition of Dear John.
Taylor sang Dear John on stage during her Eras Tour last month – the first time she has performed the song live in 11 years.
Dear John, with its blistering lyrics about an ex’s “sick need to give love and then take it away,” was widely considered to be about John.
After the song came to public attention again, Taylor begged her fans not to “defend” her from John, but they ignored her pleas and started denouncing him online as a “groomer” because they were dating when he was 33 and she was 19.