What started with a (failed) bracelet made of plastic beads has turned into one of the most anticipated romance novels of 2023. After a long series of separations and divorces among celebrities, hope is now emerging with the most brilliant star of the moment: the singer Taylor Swift (33 years old), who, thanks to her extremely successful tour “The Eras Tour”, has become a mass socio-cultural phenomenon, with more than 150 major concerts around the world that bring in around 4,000 million dollars and have just brought box office records into the cinema; and the American football player Travis Kelce (34 years old), who was part of the Kansas City Chiefs for a decade and is considered one of the best in the American league and a two-time Super Bowl champion. The couple confirmed what was an open secret on Saturday night with a brief appearance holding hands on the streets of New York as they went to dinner together, and then both appeared separately on American television’s Saturday Night Live (SNL). .
Swift and Kelce finally confirmed their relationship at a dinner in New York. They both got out of the same car in the city center, held hands, and walked slowly to a luxurious Japanese restaurant, Nobu, not hiding from the many photographers waiting for them. Later, at the facility, they continued together and greeted the staff. After dinner they returned, also slowly and hand in hand, to the same car and drove off. The couple then made surprise appearances on SNL. She very briefly, in just three seconds, presents the second performance of the evening by singer Ice Spice, with whom she collaborated to cover one of her own songs, Karma. He for an even shorter time, but just long enough to appear at the end of a parody about how much people talk about his relationship with Swift during broadcasts of their games and on related football shows.
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This is the couple’s fourth appearance at the same location, but only the second in which they are seen together, and the first in which they finally confirm the open secret that there is more than just friendship between them. On Sunday, September 24, Taylor Swift was spotted for the first time at Travis Kelce’s game in Kansas City, Missouri, cheering him on in a box with the player’s parents. When it was over, the two were seen leaving the stadium together and driving away in his 1970s Chevrolet. The following week, Swift returned to the box, this time in New York, to be seen in the company of a host of famous friends including Hugh Jackman, Sophie Turner, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. She wasn’t present the following Sunday, but last Thursday she was present again in Kansas, just a day after the premiere of her documentary in Los Angeles, surrounded by her team and family. According to the American press, Swift and Kelce stayed together at the player’s house for a few days until they flew to New York for the television show. Apparently, these sources claim that they later went to an SNL party, where they were perceived as affectionate and natural by those in attendance.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift during a game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City (USA) on September 24, 2023.getty
The relationship between these two superstars has now been made public, but it has been brewing for several months and it was Kelce himself who shared how it began. In early July, Swift brought her The Eras Tour to Chiefs Stadium. Then he tried to approach her in a strange way: he tried to send her one of the friendship bracelets made of plastic beads that the artist’s followers exchange at her concerts, where they write the titles and lyrics of their songs – Swift talks about her in one of his songs and they have become very popular – but in his case with his phone. It did not work. “It hurt me a little not to be able to give her one of the bracelets I made for her,” he commented on the weekly podcast he runs with his brother Jason, also an American football player. “If you keep up with Taylor Swift concerts, you know that there are friendship bracelets, and I got a few of them, but I wanted to give her one with my phone number on it.” However, time has shown that the anecdote actually somehow reached her ears, and who knows if the bracelet did too. And that’s where it all started.
Last April, it was revealed that Swift had ended her relationship with Joe Alwyn, a British actor she had been dating for six years. The couple kept a very low profile, fleeing the press, avoiding being photographed (sometimes even running to their car to avoid the spotlight) and making very few public appearances. However, the singer lives her relationship with Kelce differently, without exposing herself, but with more naturalness. He doesn’t mind being photographed at the stadium or on the street, with his friends or family. The athlete has, of course, also spoken openly about it and learned details that the extensive and powerful Swiftie community has approved of, from wearing those famous friendship bracelets to questioning the way the American football league NFL behaves because of Swifts Abusing her image and focusing excessively on her on screen during her games. For now, the spotlight will continue to be on both in the stadiums and will now also be looking for them on the streets.