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Associated Press

It started with a friendship bracelet. It ended with an engagement ring. Taylor Swift, the pop superstar, and Travis Kelce, the football champion, are engaged.
The couple, both 35, announced the news in a joint post on Instagram on Tuesday.
It is the latest chapter in the couple’s love story, one that has spanned two years, two Super Bowls, an album announcement and the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Here is a look at some of the major events in their relationship.
A friendship bracelet, undelivered
It started, fittingly, with a friendship bracelet.
It was back in July 2023 that Kelce attended Swift’s Eras concert at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, in the US state of Missouri, where the Kansas City Chiefs American football team play.
After, on his New Heights podcast with his brother, he professed to being disappointed that he could not meet Swift and present her with a bracelet with his phone number on it.












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“She doesn’t meet anybody, or at least she didn’t want to meet me, so I took it personal,” he quipped. The podcast asked on Instagram: “Anyone know how to get a bracelet to @taylorswift13? … asking for a friend.”
But by that September, Kelce was hinting that his efforts had achieved some success.
Soon, Kelce revealed he had invited Swift to a game at Arrowhead. “I threw the ball in her court,” he said on another talk show.
Swift took Kelce up on his offer, appearing for all the world to see at the Chiefs-Chicago Bears game, cheering next to his mum, Donna Kelce.
“Pretty ballsy,” Kelce said a few days later of Swift’s appearance, adding how much he loved seeing her cheer next to his mother.

It was the launch of a series of appearances by Swift at Chiefs games.
Karma is the guy on the Chiefs
In November 2023, Swift brought her tour to Argentina, where she changed the lyrics of Karma to salute her beau. “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me,” she sang.
When Time magazine announced its person of the year, few were surprised it was Swift. In the Time interview, she spoke about her relationship.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” she said, adding that they had already been a couple before that first Chiefs game cameo.
Soon after, things were heating up on the football field – meaning the Chiefs were heading to the Super Bowl. At the AFC Championship game, the couple made it clear they were fine with whatever attention was coming their way.
In the middle of the field in Baltimore, after the Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens, Swift and Kelce kissed. “I love you,” Kelce said. “So much it’s not funny.”

A race across nine time zones
In one week of February 2024, Swift attended the Grammys in Los Angeles, jetted to Tokyo for four concerts, then jumped back onto her private plane to make the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. To get there, she crossed nine time zones and the international date line.
On the road again
In Paris, Swift introduced a section from The Tortured Poets Department, her new album. Fans wondered if Kelce had made his way into some of its lyrics – like “You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got her”, from “So High School”.
But the highlight came in June, during a set of concerts in London. There, Kelce made his Eras stage debut, donning a tuxedo and top hat and carrying Swift in his arms during a choreographed bit before “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”.

‘Happiness and fun and magic’
As for Kelce, he spoke with pride about the relationship, noting on the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast that he had no desire to hide anything.
“That’s my girl,” he said. “That’s my lady. I’m proud of that.”
Swift echoed that emotion when she accepted an MTV Video Music Award last September, shouting out “my boyfriend Travis” in her speech.
“Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic,” she said.
‘I am just a jamoke supporting his girlfriend’
Throughout the summer and autumn of 2024, Kelce attended some of Swift’s remaining tour dates and mentioned her on New Heights, officially referring to her as “his girlfriend” in a July episode.

“She is every bit of what everyone makes her out to be. She’s so awesome. Some of these people you meet, and you’re just like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here,’” he said.
“You are unbelievable, your talent is unbelievable, how you present yourself is unbelievable, and I am just a jamoke supporting his girlfriend.”
Lights, camera, action, football
A month post-Super Bowl, the couple made their red-carpet debut at the Tight End University in June, an annual three-day training summit founded by Kelce, George Kittle and Greg Olsen – all three play in the tight end position in American football.
They were then spotted at the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, where Swift hopped on stage to perform “Shake it Off” with country singer Kane Brown.
For fans, it marked yet another moment of the couple showing very public support and admiration for one another.
The Life of a Showgirl
Swift announced her highly anticipated 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, in mid-August and included Kelce in the roll-out. It began with a tease from New Heights, which later revealed that Swift would appear in an episode the following day.












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Swift told the Kelce brothers she wanted to show them something, revealing a mint-green briefcase that featured her initials in orange. When asked what was in it, she pulled out a vinyl record.
‘Our jobs are very similar’
In the two-hour New Heights episode featuring Swift, she went into detail about the pair’s summer following the Super Bowl.
She said she spent considerable time in Florida with Kelce. She also said “our jobs are very similar”: they revolve around entertaining “people for three hours in NFL stadiums”.
On her self-described “favourite podcast”, Swift credited New Heights for getting her a boyfriend.
“This is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager,” she said of their romance.
Kelce credited the tour for, well, getting him a girlfriend.
“I see you on that stage and see how you can get an entire stadium going, and then I get you in a room and it’s like I’ve known you forever,” he said.
“It’s the easiest conversation I ever had, and it was just so much fun that it knocked my socks off.”
Jock, meet writer

In late August, in a five-photo carousel shared to both Swift and Kelce’s official Instagram accounts, the couple announced their engagement.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” said the caption.
It is unclear when and where the two got engaged.


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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship timeline, from call-out to engagement

An Instagram post announcing the engagement of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift comes with a message reading: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” We take a look at some of the major events in their relationship. Photo: Instagram/taylorswift, killatrav

Donna Kelce (left) and Taylor Swift attend a game between the Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 24, 2023. Photo: TNS

Swift kisses Kelce after an AFC Championship game against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore on January 28, 2024. Photo: AP

Kelce made his Eras stage debut during a choreographed bit in June 2024. Photo: Instagram/kamnsaunders

Swift performs in Tokyo in February 2024. After her concerts there, she flew back to the US to make it to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. Photo: AP

The couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Photo: Instagram/taylorswift, killatrav

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Taylor Swift with her Scottish Fold cat. Photo: Instagram/taylorswift

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Takeshi Kaneshiro in an interview with the Post in December 2006. Photo: SCMP

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With the couple announcing their engagement, we look at some of the major events in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship so far


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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship timeline, from call-out to engagement

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A friendship bracelet, undelivered

With the couple announcing their engagement, we look at some of the major events in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship so far